CHAPTER THE SIXTH. On Devotion; or on the Third and Fourth 1. HAVING thus remained in the order of a houfe-keeper, as the law ordains, let the twice born man, who had before completed his ftu dentship, dwell in a foreft, his faith being firm and his organs wholly fubdued. 2. When the father of a family, perceives his muscles become flaccid and his hair gray, and fees the child of his child, let him then feek refuge in a forest : 3. Abandoning all food eaten in towns, and all his household utenfils, let him repair to the lonely wood, committing the care of his wife to her fons, or accompanied by her, if he chufe to attend him. 4. Let him take up his confecrated fire, and all his domeftick implements of making oblations to it, and, departing from the town to the foreft, let him dwell in it with complete power over his organs of fenfe and of action. 5. With many forts of pure food, fuch as holy fages used to eat, with green herbs, roots, and L fruit, 164. A married woman, who viol duty which the owes to her lord, brins ents i due hide, or on herself in this life, and, in the next, the womb of a fhakal, or be afflict phantiafis,and other difeafes, which rvening and 165. While fhe, who flights of his head, but keeps her mind, fpeech, an continually. to him, attains his heavenly elf may eat, let good men is called fádhvi, orer, make offerings 166. Yes; by this courfents of water, roots, C woman, whofe mind, fr thofe who vifit his kept in fubjection, acqui ༦ world, and, in the newgaged in reading the ⚫ her husband. 167. A twice bo ordinances, must b implements of fa him, if he was thefe rules: 168. Havir performed f • before him light the r <T 169. • day, ac ་ great • confo 'fecc . alextremities, universally bemine intent on the Supreme er, but no receiver of fection for all animated the how directs, make oblations JERTETE DA Cremonies to be performed at perform the facrifice ordained The bar conftellations, make the ng of new grain, and folemnize our months, and at the winter ates ane grains, the food of ancient the vernal and autumnal feabome by himself, let him sevëme law ordains, the oblations of dis nu da of grain ; saving prefented to the gods, that bica the wild woods produced, West remains, together with fome which himmelf collected. 13. Let green herbs, flowers, roots, on earth or in water, pure trees, and oils meat he must avoid, and s, the plant bhústrina, that the fruit of the flémátaca. n Afwina let him caft away the nich he before had laid up, and en become old, and his herbs, uit. nim not eat the produce of plowed Sugh abandoned by any man who nor fruits and roots produced in a even though hunger opprefs him. 'He may eat what is mellowed by fire, and may eat what is ripened by time; and either et him break hard fruits with a stone, or let his teeth ferve as a pestle. 18. Either let him pluck enough for a day, ' or let him gather enough for a month; or let ' him collect enough for fix months, or lay up ' enough for a year. 19. Having procured food, as he is able, he 'may eat it at eve or in the morning; or he may take only every fourth, or every eighth, 'fuch regular meal; 20. Ör, by the rules of the lunar penance, he may eat a mouthful more each day of the bright, ' and a mouthful less each day of the dark fort'night; or he may eat only once, at the clofe of ' each fortnight, a mefs of boiled grains : 21. Or he may conftantly live on flowers and roots, and on fruit matured by time, which has ⚫ fallen fpontaneously, ftrictly obferving the laws • ordained for hermits. 22. Let L 2 fruit, let him perform the five great facraments 'before mentioned, introducing them with due ' ceremonies. 6. Let him wear a black antelopes's hide, or a vefture of bark; let him bathe evening and morning; let him fuffer the hairs of his head, his beard, and his nails to grow continually. 7. From fuch food, as himself may eat, let him, to the utmost of his power, make offerings and give alms; and with prefents of water, roots, and fruit, let him honour those who vifit his hermitage. 8. Let him be conftantly engaged in reading the Véda; patient of all extremities, univerfally benevolent, with a mind intent on the Supréme Being; a perpetual giver, but no receiver of gifts; with tender affection for all animated • bodies. 9. 'Let him, as the law directs, make oblations • on the hearth with three facred fires; not omitting, in due time, the ceremonies to be performed at the conjunction and oppofition of the moon. 10. Let him alfo perform the facrifice ordained in honour of the lunar conftellations, make the • prescribed offering of new grain, and folemnize holy rites every four months, and at the winter and fummer folftices. II. 11. With pure grains, the food of ancient fage s, growing in the vernal and autumnal feafons, and brought home by himself, let him feverally make, as the law ordains, the oblations of cakes and boiled grain ; 12. And, having prefented to the gods, that pureft oblation which the wild woods produced, ❝ let him eat what remains, together with fome nativ e falt, which himfelf collected. 13. Les 13. Let him eat green herbs, flowers, roots, and fruit, that grow on earth or in water, and the productions of pure trees, and oils formed in fruits. 14. Honey and flesh meat he must avoid, and all forts of mushrooms, the plant bhústrina, that named figbruca, and the fruit of the flémátaca. 15. In the month Afwina let him caft away the food of fages, which he before had laid up, and his vesture, then become old, and his herbs, " roots, and fruit. 16. Let him not eat the produce of plowed land, though abandoned by any man who owns it, nor fruits and roots produced in a town, even though hunger opprefs him. 17. 'He may eat what is mellowed by fire, and ' he may eat what is ripened by time; and either let him break hard fruits with a ftone, or let his < teeth ferve as a pestle. 18. Either let him pluck enough for a day, or let him gather enough for a month; or let him collect enough for fix months, or lay up • enough for a year. 19. Having procured food, as he is able, he may eat it at eve or in the morning; or he 6 may take only every fourth, or every eighth, fuch regular meal; 6 20. Or, by the rules of the lunar penance, he may eat a mouthful more each day of the bright, ⚫ and a mouthful lefs each day of the dark fortnight; or he may eat only once, at the clofe of ⚫ each fortnight, a mefs of boiled grains : 21. Or he may conftantly live on flowers and roots, and on fruit matured by time, which has ⚫ fallen fpontaneously, ftrictly obferving the laws • ordained for hermits. L 2 22. Let |