6 6 47. Nor in ditches with living creatures in them, CHAP. nor walking, nor standing, nor on the bank of a river, nor on the summit of a mountain : 48. Nor let him ever eject them, looking at things moved by the wind, or at fire, or at a priest, or at the sun, or at water, or at cattle; 49. But let him void his excrements, having covered the earth with wood, potsherds, dry leaves and grass, or the like, carefully suppressing his utterance, wrapping up his breast and his head: 50. By day let him void them with his face to the north; by night, with his face to the south; at 'sunrise and at sunset, in the same manner as by day; 51. In the shade or in darkness, whether by day or by night, let a Bráhmen ease nature with his face ' turned as he pleases; and in places where he fears injury to life from wild beasts or from reptiles. 52. Of him, who should urine against fire, against the sun or the moon, against a twice-born man, a cow, or the wind, all the sacred knowledge would perish. 53. Let him not blow the fire with his mouth; let 'him not see his wife naked; let him not throw any 'foul thing into the fire; nor let him warm his feet 6 in it; 54. Nor let him place it in a chafing dish under his bed; nor let him stride over it; nor let him keep IV. CHAP. it, while he sleeps, at his feet: let him do nothing that may be injurious to life. 55. At the time of sunrise or sunset, let him not eat, nor travel, nor lie down to rest; let him not idly draw lines on the ground; nor let him take off 'his own chaplet of flowers. 56. Let him not cast into the water either urine or ordure, nor saliva, nor cloth, or any other thing, 'soiled with impurity, nor blood, nor any kinds of poison. 57. Let him not sleep alone in an empty house; nor let him wake a sleeping man superiour to himself in wealth and in learning; nor let him speak to a woman at the time of her courses; nor let him go to 'perform a sacrifice, unattended by an officiating priest. 6 58. In a temple of consecrated fire, in the pasture ' of kine, in the presence of Bráhmens, in reading the Veda, and in eating his food, let him hold out his right arm uncovered. 6 59. Let him not interrupt a cow while she is drinking, nor give notice to any, whose milk or water she drinks; nor let him, who knows right from wrong, ' and sees in the sky the bow of INDRA, show it to any man. 60. Let him not inhabit a town, in which civil and religious duties are neglected; nor, for a long 'time, one in which diseases are frequent; let him • not not begin a journey alone: let him not reside long CHAP. on a mountain. 61. Let him not dwell in a city governed by a Súdra king, nor in one surrounded with men unobservant of their duties, nor in one abounding with 'professed hereticks, nor in one swarming with lowborn outcasts. 6 62. Let him eat no vegetable, from which the oil has been extracted; nor indulge his appetite to satiety; nor eat either too early or too late; nor take any food in the evening, if he have eaten to fulness in the morning. 63. Let him make no vain corporeal exertion: let him not sip water taken up with his closed fingers: 'let him eat nothing placed in his lap let him never take pleasure in asking idle questions. 64. Let him neither dance nor sing, nor play on 'musical instruments, except in religious rites; nor let him strike his arm, or gnash his teeth, or make ' a braying noise, though agitated by passion. 65. Let him not wash his feet in a pan of mixed ' yellow metal; nor let him eat from a broken dish, nor where his mind is disturbed with anxious appre'hensions. 66. Let him not use either slippers or clothes, or a sacerdotal string, or an ornament, or a garland, 6 or a waterpot, which before have been used by ⚫ another. Q • IV. CHAP. IV. 6 67. With untrained beasts of burden let him not travel; nor with such, as are oppressed by hunger 'or by disease; nor with such as have imperfect horns, eyes, or hoofs; nor with such as have ragged tails: 68. But let him constantly travel with beasts well 'trained, whose pace is quick, who bear all the marks of a good breed, who have an agreeable colour, and a beautiful form; giving them very little pain with his whip. 69. The sun in the sign of Canyà, the smoke of a burning corse, and a broken seat, must be shunned: he must never cut his own hair and nails, nor ever " tear his nails with his teeth. 70. Let him not break mould or clay without cause : 'let him not cut grass with his nails; let him neither indulge any vain fancy, nor do any act, that can bring no future advantage: 71. He, who thus idly breaks clay, or cuts grass, or bites his nails, will speedily sink to ruin; and so shall a detractor, and an unclean person. 72. Let him use no contumelious phrase: let him wear no garland except on his hair: to ride on the 'back of a bull or a cow, is in all modes culpable. 6 73. Let him not pass, otherwise than by the gate, ' into a walled town, or an inclosed house; and by night let him keep aloof from the roots of trees. 74. Never IV. 74. Never let him play with dice: let him not CHAP. 'put off his sandals with his hand let him not eat, while he reclines on a bed, nor what is placed in his hand, or on a bench; 6 75. Nor, when the sun is set, let him eat any thing mixed with tila; nor let him ever in this world sleep quite naked; nor let him go any whither with a remnant of food in his mouth. 76. Let him take his food, having sprinkled his 'feet with water; but never let him sleep with his 'feet wet he, who takes his food with his feet so 'sprinkled, will attain long life. 6 77. Let him never advance into a place undistinguishable by his eye, or not easily passable: never let him look at urine or ordure; nor let him pass a river swimming with his arms. 78. Let not a man, who desires to enjoy long life, 'stand upon hair, nor upon ashes, bones, or pot'sherds, nor upon seeds of cotton, nor upon husks of grain. 79. Nor let him tarry even under the shade of the 80. 6 |