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From the house of Somaraja, the first Tirthankara, the following is the reason:
A sparrow, outside the nest, feeds its young, but does not know where it will go after death. Similarly, a householder who does not give charity according to his means, except for the violent and sinful, is like that sparrow.
**Dhatta:** One should neglect the irreligious, show compassion to the afflicted, and pay respects to the virtuous. || 8 ||
Thus, the prince, having explained the essence of the giver, the recipient, and the act of giving, adorned with pure, washed, divine garments, holding a decorated vessel filled with water and covered with leaves, removed the heat with the water stream, and with the remembrance of past lives, recalled the munidanakarma of his previous birth, being a superior, ultimate body, having destroyed the cycle of birth, having developed affection from speaking and seeing, being a house of virtuous jewels that satisfies the earth, having ears pierced by the list of scriptures spoken by the sages, having a body adorned with the character of the moon and sun, the younger brother of the Kurujangala king, the sweet and gentle, righteous king, Shreyans,