Imatges de pàgina
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lord, though of a lower class, and takes another

(para) of a higher, becomes despicable in this

• world, and is called parapúrva, or one who had a different husband before.

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164. A married woman, who violates the duty, which fhe owes to her lord, brings infamy on herself in this life, and, in the next, • fhall enter the womb of a fhakal, or be af*flicted with elephantiafis, and other diseases ⚫ which punish crimes; ·

165. While the, who flights not her lord, ⚫ but keeps her mind, speech, and body, devoted 'to him, attains his heavenly mansion,' and by good men is called fádhvi, or virtuous.

166. 'Yes; by this course of life it is, that a woman, whose mind, fpeech, and body are kept in fubjection, acquires high renown in this world, and, in the next, the fame abode with her husband.

167.. A twiceborn man, verfed in facred or'dinances, muft burn, with hallowed fire and fit implements of facrifice, his wife dying before him, if she was of his own class, and lived by thefe rules: '

168.. Having thus kindled facred fires, and performed funeral rites to his wife, who died *before him, he may again marry, and again light the nuptial fire..

169. Let him not ceafe to perform day by day according to the preceding rules, the five great facraments; and, having taken a lawful confort, let him dwell in his house during the

⚫ fecond period of his life.

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CHAPTER THE SIXTH.

On Devotion; or on the Third and Fourth Orders.

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HAVING thus remained in the order

of a housekeeper, as the law ordains, let the twiceborn man, who had before completed his ' studentship, dwell in a foreft, his faith being 'firm and his organs wholly subdued.

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2. When the father of a family perceives his mufcles become flaccid and his hair gray, and fees the child of his child, let him then 'feek refuge in a forest:

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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 she chuse • to attend him.'

4. "Let him take up his confecrated fire, and ⚫ all his domeftick implements of making obla'tions 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 fruit, let him perform the five great facra⚫ments before mentioned, introducing them with • due ceremonies.

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6. Let him wear a black antelope's hide, or a vesture 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 presents of water, roots, and fruit, let him honour those, ' who visit his hermitage. ·

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8. Let him be constantly engaged in reading the Véda; patient of all extremities, univerfally benevolent,' with a mind intent on the Supreme Being; a perpetual giver, but no re'ceiver of gifts; with tender affection for all ' animated bodies.

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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.

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10. Let him alfo perform the facrifice or'dained in honour of the lunar constellations, make the prescribed offering of new grain, and

'folemnize holy rites every four months, and at 'the winter and fummer folftices.

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11. With pure grains, the food of ancient

fages, growing in the vernal and autumnal fea

'fons, and brought home by himself, let him severally make, as the law ordains, the oblations ' of cakes and boiled grain;

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12. And, having prefented to the gods that 'pureft oblation, which the wild woods pro'duced, let him eat what remains, together ' with fome native falt, which himself collected. 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 fleshmeat he must avoid, and all forts of mushrooms, the plant bhúftrina, 'that named figbruca, and the fruit of the slesb• mátaca.

15. In the month Afwina let him caft away the food of fages, which he before had • laid up, and his vefture, then become old, and 'his herbs, roots, and fruit.

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16. Let him not eat the produce of ploughed land, though abandoned by any man, who owns it, nor fruit and roots produced in a town,

' even though hunger opprefs him.

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'He may eat what is mellowed by fire,

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