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III, 3.
delight in (dresses made of) bark and skins, (and in carrying) water (in his pot).'
20. 'A devotee shall first honour the guests who have come to his hermitage at (dinner) time; he shall be sedulous in (worshipping) gods and Brâhmanas, in (offering) the Agnihotra, and in practising austerities.'
21. 'A Brâhmana who has taken to forest-life, and who has adopted this difficult (but) pure mode of existence, which keeps him apart from wicked men, which must never be given up, which is similar to (that of the) beasts and birds, which allows the collection of the necessaries of life for one day only, and which necessitates the consumption of astringent and bitter (food), never sinks low.'
22. Moving about with the beasts, dwelling together with them, and maintaining oneself in a manner similar to theirs, that is clearly the road to heaven.'
Prasna III, Adhyâya 4. 1. Now if a student commits any act against his vow, eats meat, or approaches a woman, whenever any evil befals him,
2. He heaps fuel on the fire in the interior of the house, scatters (Kusa grass) around it, and performs the ceremonies up to the end of the Agnimukha ; then he offers oblations of clarified butter, (reciting the following texts): 'It was done by lust, lust does
22. See above, III, 2, 19.
4. 1. The clause striyam vopeyât, or approaches a woman.' is omitted by Govinda. The whole chapter is a supplement to the rules given above, II, 1, 1, 30-35, where some of the Vedic passages mentioned here have already been given.
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