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## **English Translation:**
**Chapter 6: Purity of Food**
**Verse 482:** Food should be **navakoti** pure (pure in thought, speech, and action, as well as in causing others to act, and in approving of such actions), free from forty-two defects, free from the defect of **samyojana**, measured in accordance with the prescribed quantity, and given according to the proper procedure (with nine types of devotion and seven qualities of the giver).
**Verse 483:** It should be free from the defects of **angara** (charcoal) and **dhruma** (smoke), possess six causes, be pure in sequence, be for the sustenance of life, or for the means of liberation, and be free from fourteen impurities.
**Explanation:** The fourteen impurities are: nails, hair, lifeless bodies, bone particles, grain particles, rotten blood, skin, blood, flesh, seeds, fruits, tubers, and roots.
**Verse 484:** The fourteen impurities are: nails, hair, lifeless bodies, bone particles, grain particles, rotten blood, skin, blood, flesh, seeds, fruits, tubers, and roots. One should avoid food that contains these impurities.
**Further Explanation:** The food should be obtained from a source that is pure in thought, speech, and action, and free from the fourteen impurities. It should be given with devotion and respect, and consumed with awareness and gratitude.