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18. Nor those who do work on holidays; 19. Nor malignant informers ; 20. Nor those who teach (the Veda) for a fee;
21. Nor those who have been taught (the Veda) for a fee;
22. Nor those who subsist on food given to them by a Sudra;
23. Nor those who have intercourse with an outcast;
24. Nor those who neglect their daily study of the Veda;
25. Nor those who neglect their morning and evening prayers ;
26. Nor those who are in the king's service; 27. Nor 'naked' persons ; 28. Nor those who quarrel with their father ;
29. Nor those who have forsaken their father, mother, Guru, holy fire, or sacred study.
30. All those persons are said to defile a company, because they have been expelled from the community of Brâhmanas. Let a wise man avoid carefully, therefore, to entertain them at a Sraddha.
LXXXIII. 1. The following persons sanctify a company: 2. A Trinâkiketa ;
27. See LXIV, 5, note.
29. The particle ka here refers to the following further persons mentioned in a Smriti: a shepherd, one who lives by the prostitution of his own wife, the husband of a woman who had another husband before, and one employed to carry out dead bodies. (Nand.)
LXXXIII. 1-19. M. III, 128-148, 183–186; Y. I, 219-221; Âpast. II, 7, 17, 22; Gaut. XV, 28.
2. Nand. has two explanations of the term Trinâkiketa: 1. One who has thrice kindled the Nâkiketa fire. 2. One who has studied,
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