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[ 5. 10. through religion is the prosperity and wealth; through religion is the wide-spread fame. (12)
Religion is the crown of auspicious things; and is a crown of medicines of all miseries; religion even is the great strength; religion is the protection and the refuge. (13)
What of speaking more? Whatever is seen, in the whole of this world, propitiating even to mind and senses is all the fruit of religion. (14)
[5] At the terrible time of death, hard-earned wealth, body, the relatives, are left aside and only religion becomes the sound helper. (15)
Religion helps to obtain the celestial world and thence an elevated human life and thence soon the absolution which consists of eternal .bliss and the separation of miseries. (16)
The neutral-minded and high-souled man who hears the religious stories spoken by the omniscient, gets knowledge; and getting knowledge follows it (i.e. religion.) (17)
Then having known first the quality of religion, I shall speak the elevated history, giving the idea of the merits and demerits of one who is the worshipper and the other who is not, (18)
Hear ye; I narrate the history of Samarăicca, the king of Avanti, which is composed of nine previous births; and which brings about non-attachment to the world to the high-souled beings. (19)
