Since the wise and the ignorant the rich and the poor, all, shorn of their anxieties, sleep on the crematorium, with bodies devoid of flesh and full of naked bones, and sinews, whom amongst them will the survivors regard as possessed of distinguishing marks by which the attributes of birth and beauty may be determined? Since every thing is equal in death why should men, whose understandings are always deceived covet one another's rank and position.
निर्मासैरस्थिभूयिष्ठैर्गात्रैःस्नायुनिबन्धनैः। किं विशेष प्रपश्यन्ति तत्र तेषां परे जनाः॥ येन प्रत्यवगच्छेयुः कुलरूपविशेषणम्। कस्मादन्योन्यमिच्छन्ति विप्रलब्धधियो नराः॥