All those sinful-misers, O Bird, who, because of greed, do not make gifts at the time of illness come to grief when dead.

Sons, grandsons, brothers, kinsmen and friends who do not make gifts on behalf of a dying man are without doubt slayers of Brahman.

Footnotes

^62:1 The ten avataras, descents or incarnations of Visnu, which appeared in archaic and ancient times, except Kalki, who is still to come.

^62:2 Ajamila was a man of very evil life, who named his son Narayana, and happened to call him as he was dying.

^63:1 Names of Vishnu.

^65:1 They may expect ancestral property, but not that earned by the father.

^65:2 Classes of non-human beings.

^66:1 Physical, astral and lower mental worlds.

^67:1 A kind of spotted grain.

^67:2 The eternal serpent.

^68:1 That is, given by another for one.

^70:1 Probably the afore-mentioned cow, ghee, gold, silk, etc. are closely connected with sacrifice and therefore with the sun.

^70:2 Aksata, whole rice coloured with turmeric and saffron, and used to honour persons by sprinkling over them.

^71:1 Note here, that the cow is merely a symbol.

^71:2 Note the subjective character of the "river."

^72:1 The passing of the sun from one constellation to another.

^72:2 When the sun and moon are on opposite sides of either solstice, and the minutes declination are the same.

^72:3 Every month there is a day called Yuga--the last or last but one.