"What good will thet be?" "Imagine, sir!
Nilakantha imagines that the meaning is "As distribution (of food) amongst the various classes of beings like the gods, the Pitris, &c., is applauded &c., &c." A form of sacrifice which consists in pouring oblations of clarified butter with prayers into a blazing fire.
Imagine, if you can, what animals would be if they lacked restraint of habit.
Imagine to yourself a short fat man, of sallow complexion and small eyes, with a sash of white, red, and blue round his waist, a black belt with a sword suspended across his shoulders, and a round hat turned up before, with three feathers of the national colours: "even such a man" is our representative, and exercises a more despotic authority than most Princes in Europe.