“’Vasudeva said, “There was a certain hunter of animals, O Bharata, of the name of Valaka.  He used, for the livelihood of his son and wives and not from will, to slay animals.  Devoted to the duties of his own order and always speaking the truth and never harbouring malice, he used also to support his parents and others that depended upon him.  One day, searching for animals even with perseverance and care, he found none.  At last he saw a beast of prey whose sense of smell supplied the defect of his eyes, employed in drinking water.  Although he had never seen such an animal before, still he slew it immediately.  After the slaughter of that blind beast, a floral shower fell from the skies (upon the head of the hunter).  A celestial car also, exceedingly delightful and resounding with the songs of Apsaras and the music of their instruments, came from heaven for taking away that hunter of animals.  That beast of prey, having undergone ascetic austerities, had obtained a boon and had become the cause of the destruction of all creatures.  For this reason he was made blind by the Self-born.  Having slain that animal which had resolved to slay all creatures, Valaka went to heaven.  Morality is even so difficult of being understood.  There was an ascetic of the name of Kausika without much knowledge of the scriptures.  He lived in a spot much removed from a village, at a point where many rivers met.  He made a vow, saying, ’I must always speak the truth.’  He then became celebrated, O Dhananjaya, as a speaker of truth.  At that time certain persons, from fear of robbers, entered that wood (where Kausika dwelt).  Thither even, the robbers, filled with rage, searched for them carefully.  Approaching Kausika then, that speaker of truth, they asked him saying, ’O holy one, by which path have a multitude of men gone a little while before?  Asked in the name of Truth, answer us.  If thou hast seen them, tell us this’.  Thus adjured, Kausika told them the truth, saying, ’Those men have entered this wood crowded with many trees and creepers and plants’.  Even thus, O Partha, did Kausika give them the information.  Then those cruel men, it is heard, finding out the persons they sought, slew them all.  In consequence of that great sin consisting in the words spoken, Kausika, ignorant of the subtilities of morality, fell into a grievous hell, even as a foolish man, of little knowledge, and unacquainted with the distinctions of morality, falleth into painful hell by not having asked persons of age for the solution of his doubts.  There must be some indications for distinguishing virtue from sin.  Sometimes that high and unattainable knowledge may be had by the exercise of reason.  Many persons say, on the one hand, that the scriptures indicate morality.  I do not contradict this.  The scriptures, however, do not provide for every case.  For the growth of creatures have precepts of morality been declared.  That which is connected with inoffensiveness is religion.  Dharma protects and preserves the