⚫ whole month with tila, rice, barley, black len'tils or vetches, water, roots, and fruit, given ' with prescribed ceremonies;

268. Two months, with fish; three months, ' with venifon; four, with mutton; five, with "the flesh of fuch birds, as the twice-born may L eat;

269. Six months, with the flesh of kids; feven, with that of spotted deer; eight, with ⚫ that of the deer, or antelope, called éna; nine, ⚫ with that of the ruru:

270. Ten months are they fatisfied with the flesh of wild boars and wild buffalos; eleven, with that of rabbits or hares, and of • tortoises;

271.

A whole year with the milk of cows, and food made of that milk; from the flesh of 'the long-eared white goat, their fatisfaction endures twelve years.

272. The potherb cálafáca, the fifh mabá'falca, or the diodon, the flesh of a rhinoceros, "or of an ironcoloured kid, honey, and all such 'foreftgrains as are eaten by hermits, are formed • for their fatisfaction without end.

273. 'Whatever pure food, mixed with honey, a man offers on the thirteenth day of the 6 moon, in the feafon of rain, and under the lunar • afterism Maghà, has likewise a ceaseless duration.

274. "Oh! may that man, fay the manes, be "born in our line, who may give us milky food, "with honey and pure butter, both on the thir"teenth of the moon, and when the fhadow of "an elephant falls to the eaft!"

275. 'Whatever a man, endued with strong faith, piously offers, as the law has directed, becomes a perpetual unperishable gratification to his ancestors in the other world:

276. The tenth and fo forth, except the ⚫ fourteenth, in the dark half of the month, are 'the lunar days moft approved for facred obfequies: as they are, fo are not the others.

277. He, who does honour to the manes,

C on even lunar days, and under even lunar ftations, enjoys all his defires; on odd lunar days, ' and under odd lunar afterifms, he procures an • illuftrious race.

278. As the latter, or dark, half of the month furpafles, for the celebration of obfequies, the former, or bright half, fo the latter half of the day furpaffes, for the fame purpose, the former • half of it.

279. The oblation to ancestors must be duly made, even to the conclufion of it with • the diftribution to the fervants (or even to the clofe of life), in the form prefcribed, by a Bráhmen wearing his thread on his right shoulder, proceeding from left to right,

without remiffness, and with cus'a-grafs in his • hand.

280. Obfequies must not be performed by night; fince the night is called rácsbasì or in'fefted by demons; nor while the fun is rifing or fetting, nor when it has just risen.

281. A house-keeper, unable to give a monthly repaft, may perform obfequies here below, according to the facred ordinance, only thrice a year, in the feafons of hémanta, grishma, and vershà; but the five facraments he • must perform daily.

282. The facrificial oblation, at obfequies to ancestors, is ordained to be made in no vulgar 'fire; nor fhould the monthly fráddha of that • Brábmen, who keeps a perpetual fire, be made on any day except on that of the con* junction:

283. When a twice-born man, having per'formed his ablution, offers a fatisfaction to the manes with water only, being unable to give a repast, he gains by that offering all the fruit ⚫ of a fráddha.

284. The wife call our fathers, Vafus; our paternal grandfathers, Rudras; our paternal great grandfathers, Adityas (that is, all are to be re'vered as deities); and to this effect there is a primeval text in the Véda.

285. ‘Let a man, who is able, continually

feed on vighafa, and continually feed on am'rta: by vighafa is meant the residue of a repast

at obfequies; and by amrita, the refidue of a • facrifice to the gods.

286. THIS Complete system of rules, for the five facraments and the like, has been de'clared to you: now hear the law for thofe means of fubfiftence, which the chief of the < twice-born

may

feek.

CHAPTER THE FOURTH

On Economicks; and Private Morals.

I.

. LET

a Brahmen, having dwelt with a preceptor during the firft quarter of a man's

life, pass the fecond quarter of human life in

⚫ his own house, when he has contracted a legal marriage.

2. He muft live, with no injury, or with the leaft poffible injury, to animated beings, by 'pursuing those means of gaining fubfiftence, which are strictly prescribed by law, except in times of diftrefs:

3. For the fole purpose of supporting life, * let him acquire property by those irreproacha'ble occupations, which are peculiar to his class, • and unattended with bodily pain.

4. 'He‐may live by rita and amrita, or, if neceffary, by mrita, or pramrita, or even by fatyánrita; but never let him fubfift by fwav• ritti:

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5. By rita, muft be understood lawful gleaning and gathering; by amrita, what is unafked; by mrita, what is asked as alms; tillage • is called pramrita;