Making gifts is said by the sages to be the greatest of virtues. Of all kinds of gifts again, that of the body in battle, is the highest. You have seen with your own eyes how the kings, ever following Kshatriya duties, having duly waited upon their preceptors and acquired great learning, at last sacrifice their bodies, while fighting with one another. The Kshatriya, desirous of earning religious merit, should after following the Brahmacharya mode, live like a house-holder which is always meritorious.
त्यागं श्रेष्ठं मुनयो वै वदन्ति सर्वश्रेष्ठं यच्छरीरं त्यजन्तः। नित्यं युक्ता राजधर्मेषु सर्वे प्रत्यक्षं ते भूमिपाला यथैव॥ बहुश्रुत्वा गुरुशुश्रूषया चा परस्परं संहननाद् वदन्ति। नित्यं धर्मं क्षत्रियो ब्रह्मचारी चरेदेको ह्याश्रमं धर्मकामः॥