History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.177

v6.c81.177

Death in the midst of a vrata did not deprive the performer of the merit for which he began it Angiras¹¹⁶ provides 'if a person that has begun some religious act for some benefit dies before the rite is finished, he secures the merit that is the reward (of that act) after his death, Manu so declared'.