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VI, 40.
RULE OF CONDUCT.
daily recite the Veda, though he may offer (an Agnihotra) or mutter (prayers, nevertheless) he will not find the path that leads upwards.
29. But if, after eating the food of a Sudra, he has conjugal intercourse, his sons will belong to the giver of the food, and he shall not ascend to heaven.
30. They declare that he is worthy to receive gifts, who (daily) rises to recite the Veda, who is of good family, and perfectly free from passion, who constantly offers sacrifices in the three sacred fires, who fears sin, and knows much, who is beloved among the females (of his family), who is righteous, protects cows, and reduces himself by austerities.
31. Just as milk, sour milk, clarified butter, and honey poured into an unburnt earthen vessel, perish, owing to the weakness of the vessel, and neither the vessel nor those liquids (remain);
32. Even so a man destitute of sacred learning, who accepts cows or gold, clothes, a horse, land, (or) sesamum, becomes ashes, as (if he were dry) wood.
33. He shall not make his joints or his nails crack, 34. Nor shall he make a vessel ring with his nails. 35. Let him not drink water out of his joined hands.
36. Let him not strike the water with his foot or his hand,
37. Nor (pour) water into (other) water.
38. Let him not gather fruit by throwing brickbats,
39. Nor by throwing another fruit at it. 40. He shall not become a hypocrite or deceitful.
32. Manu IV, 188. Read in the text evam gâ vâ' instead of 'evam gâvo.' 33. Gautama IX, 51.
35. Gautama IX, 9. 40. Manu IV, 177.
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