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and clothes for decrepit people who cannot earn the means for providing food and clothes. It is also a sort of duty for a rich man to dig wells and tanks for drinking-water, to lay out gardens, to plant avenues of trees, to found schools, hospitals, and other such public institutions and to entertain friends and relatives, and also, I may say, according to our notions, to feed the Brahmins and others on pleasant and happy occasions, such as marriages, births, and so forth. Even according to the Hindu belief there is no sin imparted to the donee from the giver in receiving charity and hospitality in all the above instances.
Now, my friends, I exhort you to look on the second kind of charity as more worthy of attention than the first one. The second kind is a duty incumbent on you and it imparts no sin to the donee, nor does it expect any recompense whatsoever.
