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discuss the particulars of the event, whether good or bad. To avoid all this hubbub and commotion was the object of the rule against the admission of worshippers likely to furnish an occasion for disturbance in worship. Similar in nature would be the explanation of the exclusion of the women suffering from the monthly effusion of blood. For the presence of blood on a slovenly woman's clothes or of blood drops on the floor of the Adytum and the courtyard of the Place of Worship cannot but be an unsightly thing. Today the reasons for these rules have been forgotten, and that is why we look upon every infringement of such an injunction as at once fatal to the Dharma, and to the transgressor and to everybody else!
When Bharata reached home, he first visited his arsenal where he beheld the glorious discus; and, then went to see his son. He welcomed the new-comer with paternal affection, and afterwards proceeded to his Court House, where he determined to take to camp. life to subdue the world.
From the world-conquest Bharata returned home after the lapse of very many years, laden with booty and costly gifts from the numerous kings who had paid homage to him, and accompanied by many princesses, daughters of the vanquished foe, whom he married. A good
