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LXXI, 16.
RULES FOR A SNATAKA.
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2. He must not mock those who have a limb too little or a limb too much, who are ignorant, or who
are poor.
3. He must not serve low people.
4. Let him not engage in work that may keep him from repeating (or teaching) the Veda.
5. Let him wear such a dress as becomes his age,
6. And his sacred knowledge, his descent, his means, and his country.
7. He must not be overbearing.
8. He must constantly consult the holy laws and other (salutary precepts relating to the acquisition of wealth, wisdom, and freedom from disease).
9. He must not wear a worn-out or filthy dress, if he has means (enough to procure a new one).
10. (Even though he lacks firewood or the like necessaries) he must not say to another man, 'I have got none.
11. He must not wear a garland of flowers which has no smell at all, or an offensive smell, or which is red.
12. Let him wear a garland of water-flowers even though they be red.
13. And (he must wear) a staff made of bamboo ; 14. And a jar with water; 15. And a sacrificial string made of cotton thread; 16. And two golden ear-rings.
2. The particle ka refers to ugly persons and the rest, enumerated by Manu IV, 141. (Nand.)
8. The use of the particle ka implies, according to Nand., that his frame of mind and his speech should also be in conformity with his age, &c., as ordained by Manu IV, 18.
13-16. Nand., arguing from texts of Baudhâyana and of Manu (IV, 36), takes the use of the particle ka in Sûtras 13 and 14 to
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| SR No. | 007671 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Darmesteter |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1895 |
| Total Pages | 2695 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 49 MB |