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BAUDHAYANA.
II, 3, 6.
5. Let him not eat (food placed) in his lap, 6. Nor on a chair.
7. He shall carry a staff, made of bamboo, and golden earrings.
8. Let him not rub, one foot with the other while bathing, nor place the one on the other while standing,
9. Let him not wear a visible garland.
10. Let him not look at the sun when he rises or sets.
11. Let him not announce (the appearance of a rainbow) to another (man, saying), “There is Indra's bow.'
12. If he points it out, he shall call it 'the jewelled bow.'
13. Let him not pass between the prakilaka and the beam at the town gate,
14. Nor let him pass between the two posts of a swing.
15. Let him not step over a rope to which a calf is tied.
16. Let him not step on ashes, bones, hair, chaff, potsherds, nor on a bathing-place (moist with) water.
8. Vishnu LXXI, 40.
9. Vasishtha XII, 39. 10. Vasishtha XII, 10. II-12. Vasishtha XII, 32-33.
13. Govinda explains prakilaka by 'a piece of wood fastened at the town gate.' Etymologically it would mean 'a strong bolt.' Possibly the rule may be equivalent to Âpastamba I, 11, 31, 23, and mean that a Snâtaka is not to creep through the small door which is found in all Indian town gates, and left open after the gates have been shut.
14. Âpastamba I, 11, 31, 16. 15. Vasishtha XII, 9. 16. Gautama IX, 15; Mana IV, 132.
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