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III PRAPATHAKA, 1 KÂNDIKÂ, 33.
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20. Bathing,
21. 'Combing the head, cleansing the teeth, washing the feet,
22. 'Shaving, 23. 'Eating honey and flesh, 24. 'Mounting a chariot yoked with cattle, 25. “Wearing shoes in the village, 26. 'Svayam-indriya-mokanam!
27. Wearing the girdle, going the rounds for alms, carrying a staff, putting fuel (on the fire), touching water, reverentially saluting (the teacher) in the morning: these are his standing duties.
28. The Godâna-vrata, the Vrâtika-vrata, the Aditya-vrata, the Aupanishada-vrata, the Gyaishthasamika-vrata (last) one year (each).
29. Touching water in the evening and in the morning (is prescribed) for these (Vratas).
30. The Aditya-vrata, however, some do not
undergo.
31. They who undergo it, wear one garment.
32. They allow nothing to be between (themselves and) the sun, except trees and (the roofs of) houses.
33. They do not descend into water deeper than knee-deep, except on the injunction of their teacher.
28. The meaning of these expressions has been explained in the note on Sätra 1.
30. According to the commentary some study the Sukriyas as a part of the Aranyaka; these do not undergo the Aditya-vrata. Others, for instance the Kauthumas, separate the Sukriyas from the Aranyaka and keep a special vow, the Aditya-vrata, by which they are enabled to study those texts.
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