6 6 ignorant man, even by a small gift, may become CHAP. helpless as a cow in a bog. 192. Let no man, apprized of this law, present even water to a priest, who acts like a cat, nor to him, who acts like a bittern, nor to him, who is unlearned in the Véda ; 193. Since property, though legally gained, if it 'be given to either of those three, becomes preju'dicial in the next world, both to the giver and re'ceiver: 6 6 6 194. As he, who tries to pass over deep water in a boat of stone, sinks to the bottom, so those two ignorant men, the receiver and the giver, sink to a region of torment. 195. A covetous wretch, who continually displays the flag of virtue, a pretender, a deluder of the 'people, is declared to be the man who acts like a cat: he is an injurious hypocrite, a detractor from 'the merits of all men. 6 6 196. A twice-born man, with his eyes dejected, morose, intent on his own advantage, sly, and falsely demure, is he, who acts like a bittern. 197. Such priests, as live like bitterns, and such as demean themselves like cats, fall by that sinful conduct into the hell called Andhatámisra. 198. LET no man, having committed sin, perform 'a penance, under the under the pretext of austere devotion, 'disguising IV. CHAP. IV. disguising his crime under fictitious religion, and de- 199. Such impostors, though Bráhmens, are despised 200. He, who has no right to distinguishing marks, 'yet gains a subsistence by wearing false marks of distinction, takes to himself the sin committed by 'those who are entitled to such marks, and shall again be born from the womb of a brute animal. 201. NEVER let him bathe in the pool of another 6 man; for he, who bathes in it without licence, takes to himself a small portion of the sins, which the 'maker of the pool has committed. 6 202. 6 He, who appropriates to his own use the carriage, the bed, the seat, the well, the garden, or the house of another man, who has not deliver'ed them to him, assumes a fourth part of the guilt of their owner. 203. In rivers, in ponds dug by holy persons, and in lakes, let him always bathe; in rivulets also, and in torrents. 204. A WISE man should constantly discharge all the moral duties, though he perform not constantly 'the ceremonies of religion; since he falls low, if, 'while he performs ceremonial acts only, he discharge not his moral duties. 205. NEVER 205. NEVER let a priest eat part of a sacrifice not CHAP. begun with texts of the Véda, nor of one performed IV. by a common sacrificer, by a woman, or by an eu nuch: 206. When those persons offer the clarified butter, it brings misfortune to good men, and raises aver'sion in the deities; such oblations, therefore, he must carefully shun. 6 207. Let him never eat the food of the insane, 'the wrathful, or the sick; nor that, on which lice ' have fallen; nor that, which has designedly been touched by a foot; 208. Nor that, which has been looked at by the 'slayer of a priest, or by any other deadly sinner, or has even been touched by a woman in her courses, or pecked by a bird, or approached by a dog: 6 6 6 209. Nor food which has been smelled by a cow; nor particularly that which has been proclaimed for all comers; nor the food of associated knaves, or of harlots; nor that, which is contemned by the learned in scripture; 210. Nor that of a thief or a publick singer, of a carpenter, of an usurer, of one who has recently come from a sacrifice, of a niggardly churl, or of one bound with fetters; 211. · Of one publickly defamed, of an eunuch, of ⚫ an unchaste woman, or of a hypocrite? nor any sweet thing turned acid, nor what has been kept a ' whole CHAP. whole night; nor the food of a servile man, nor the 6 orts of another; IV. 212. Nor the food of a physician, or of a hunter, or of a dishonest man, or of an eater of orts; nor 'that of any cruel person; nor of a woman in childbed; nor of him, who rises prematurely from table 'to make an ablution; nor of her, whose ten days of purification have not elapsed; 213. Nor that, which is given without due honour to honourable men; nor any flesh, which has not been sacrificed; nor the food of a woman, who has neither a husband nor a son; nor that of a foe, ' nor that of the whole town, nor that of an outcast, nor that on which any person has sneezed; 214. Nor that of a backbiter, or of a false wit ness; nor of one, who sells the reward of his sacri'fice; nor of a publick dancer, or a tailor; nor of him who has returned evil for good; 215. Nor that of a blacksmith, or a man of the 'tribe called Nisháda, nor of a stage-player, nor of a worker in gold or in cane, nor of him who sells weapons; 216. Nor of those, who train hunting-dogs, or sell 'fermented liquor; nor of him who washes clothes, or who dyes them; nor of any malevolent person; nor of one, who ignorantly suffers an adulterer to 'dwell under his roof; 217. Nor IV. 217. Nor of those, who knowingly bear with the CHAP paramours of their own wives, or are constantly in subjection to women; nor food given for the dead 'before ten days of purification have passed; nor any 'food whatever, but that which satisfies him. 218. Food given by a king, impairs his manly vi gour; by one of the servile class, his divine light; by goldsmiths, his life; by leathercutters, his good 6 name: 219. Given by cooks and the like mean artizans, 'it destroys his offspring; by a washerman, his mus'cular strength; but the food of knavish associates ' and harlots excludes him from heaven : 220. The food of a physician is purulent; that of a libidinous woman, seminal; that of an usurer, fe'culent; that of a weapon-seller, filthy: 221. That of all others, mentioned in order, whose 'food must never be tasted, is held equal by the wise 'to the skin, bones, and hair of the dead. 222. Having unknowingly swallowed the food of any such persons, he must fast during three days; but, having eaten it knowingly, he must perform the same harsh penance, as if he had tasted any semi'nal impurity, ordure, or urine. 223. Let no learned priest eat the dressed grain ' of a servile man, who performs no parental obsequies; but, having no other means to live, he may 'take from him raw grain enough for a single night. 224. The T |