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I, 4, 14.
SALUTING.
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20. Nor shall he, being impure, return a salutation.
21. Married women (must be saluted) according to the (respective) ages of their husbands.
22. He shall not salute with his shoes on, or his head wrapped up, or his hands full.
23. In saluting women, a Kshatriya or a Vaisya he shall use a pronoun, not his name.
24. Some (declare, that he shall salute in this manner even) his mother and the wife of his teacher.
25. Know that a Brâhmana of ten years and a Kshatriya of a hundred years stand to each other in the relation of father and son. But between those two the Brâhmana is the father.
26. A younger person or one of equal age he shall ask, about his well-being (employing the word kusala).
27. (He shall ask under the same conditions) a Kshatriya, about his health (employing the word anâmaya);
28. A Vaisya if he has lost anything (employing the word anashta).
23. He shall say, 'I salute,' not ‘I, N. N., salute.' Manu II, 123.
24. Âpastamba, of course, holds the contrary opinion. Manu II, 216.
25. This verse, which is found with slight variations in most Smritis, contains, according to Haradatta, an instruction given by a teacher to his pupil. Manu II, 135.
26. Of course, in case the person addressed is a Brahman. Manu II, 127. Kullaka quotes under this verse the above and the following Sätras. But his quotation has only a faint resemblance to our text.
28. That is to say in these terms: 'I hope you have not lost any cattle or other property!'-Haradatta.
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