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சுஉ கூடாத செல்வம் 225 The riches gotten by selling the privileges of descent; the prosperity acquired by selling the benefit of truth : the ease that pampers the body at the expense of religious duties; and the subsistence derived from selling the ties of friendship and kindred ; to beware of all these is chief excellence. —H. S. The greatest of virtues is to avoid the wealth flowing from selling one's birth and rank and talents; to abstain from cherishing the body to the detriment of religious penance. —C. M. The greatest of virtues is to avoid the riches arising from selling the privileges of one’s lineage ; the prosperity flowing from selling the benefit of truth ; the ease that pampers the body at the expense of religious duties; and the subsistence derived from selling one’s inheritance. —S, W. Riches got by sale of birth-right, a fortune acquired by sacrifice of truth, the pampered ease of the body at the expense of the religious austerity and the livelihood eked out by selling one’s inheritance ; the avoidance of all these is the crown of all virtue. —T. B. IX. 29