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VASISHTHA.
XI, 20.
those afflicted with white leprosy, eunuchs, blind men, those who have black teeth, those who suffer from black leprosy, (and) those who have deformed nails.
20. Now they quote also the following verses) : "Now, if a (Brahmana) versed in the Vedas is afflicted with bodily (defects) which exclude him from the company, Yama declares him to be irreproachable. Such (a man) sanctifies the company.'
21. 'At a funeral sacrifice the fragments (of the meal) must not be swept away until the end of the day. For streams of nectar flow (from them, and the manes of) those who have received no libations of water drink (them).'
22. 'But let him not sweep up the fragments (of the meal) before the sun has set. Thence issue rich streams of milk for those who obtain a share with difficulty.'
23. “Manu declares that both the remainder (in the vessels) and the fragments of the meal) certainly are the portion of those members of the family who died before receiving the sacraments.'
24. Let him give the fragments that have fallen on the ground and the portion scattered (on the blades of Kusa grass), which consists of the wipings
neglecting their duties,' is doubtful. I have followed Krishnapandita, who quotes the Mârkandeya Purâna in support of his view. The word occurs in the same connexion, Vishnu LXXXII, 27, where it is rendered by 'naked.' Possibly it may refer to ascetics who go entirely naked.
20. The Sätra gives an exception to the preceding rule. 21. I read skyotante hi' instead of skyotante vai.'
22. Those who receive a share with difficulty,' i.e. the manes of uninitiated children, mentioned in the next verses.
23-24. Vishnu LXXXII, 22; Manu III, 245–246. These rules, however, do not fully agree with the teaching of our Manu-smriti,
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