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31. (Also) a person who has become an ascetic without (being authorized thereto by) the rules (of the law),
I, 6, 19.
EATING AND FORBIDDEN FOOD.
32. (Also) he who forsakes the sacred fires (without performing the sacrifice necessary on that occasion),
33. Likewise a learned Brahmana who avoids everybody, or eats the food of anybody, or neglects the (daily) recitation of the Veda, (and) he whose (only living) wife is of the Sûdra caste.
PRASNA I, PATALA 6, KHANda 19.
1. A drunkard, a madman, a prisoner, he who learns the Veda from his son, a creditor who sits with his debtor (hindering the fulfilment of his duties), a debtor who thus sits (with his creditor, are persons whose food must not be eaten) as long as they are thus engaged or in that state.
2. Who (then) are those whose food may be eaten?
secret adherent of the Sâkta sect' (gûdhakârî, sâktah). The existence of this sect in early times has not hitherto been proved.
31. Haradatta gives the Sâkyas or Bauddhas as an instance. But it is doubtful, whether Âpastamba meant to refer to them, though it seems probable that heretics are intended.
32. Yâgn. I, 160.
33. 'Who avoids everybody, i.e. who neither invites nor dines with anybody.'-Haradatta.
19. 1. Manu IV, 207; Yâgñ. I, 161, 162. Another commentator explains anika, translated above 'he who learns the Veda from his son,' by 'a money-lender,' and combines pratyupavishlah with this word, i.e. 'a money-lender who sits with his debtor hindering him from fulfilling his duties.' This manner of forcing a debtor to pay, which is also called Âkarita (see Manu VIII, 49), is, though illegal, resorted to sometimes even now.
2. The object of this Sutra is to introduce the great variety of opinions quoted below.'-Haradatta.
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