Grace

CRITICAL: a descriptive compound meaning roughly ‘freely-given gift’ is required because both live comparative frameworks pull toward a transactional reading: traditional Bathou practice offers goods to Bathoubwrai and the Kherai pantheon in exchange for protection and prosperity (a reciprocal do-ut-des logic), while Brahma Dharma’s reformed ethic frames divine favor in terms of accumulated पुण्य (merit). Romans’ ‘apart from works’ argument (4:4-5, 11:5-6) must therefore be stated explicitly, not left to the word alone, and this rendering should be reconfirmed with native speakers before enforcement.