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IV, 83.
joined; let him not touch it while he is impure, nor bathe without (submerging) it.
83. Let him avoid (in anger) to lay hold of (his own or other men's) hair, or to strike (himself or others) on the head. When he has bathed (submerging) his head, he shall not touch any of his limbs with oil.
84. Let him not accept presents from a king who is not descended from the Kshatriya race, nor from butchers, oil-manufacturers, and publicans, nor from those who subsist by the gain of prostitutes.
85. One oil-press is as (bad) as ten slaughterhouses, one tavern as (bad as) ten oil-presses, one brothel as (bad as) ten taverns, one king as (bad as) ten brothels.
86. A king is declared to be equal (in wickedness) to a butcher who keeps a hundred thousand slaughter-houses; to accept presents from him is a terrible (crime).
87. He who accepts presents from an avaricious king who acts contrary to the Institutes (of the sacred law), will go in succession to the following twenty-one hells:
88. Tâmisra, Andhatâmisra, Mahâraurava, Raurava, the Kalasätra hell, Mahanaraka,
89. Samgivana, Mahâviki, Tapana, Sampratâpana, Samghata, Sakâkola, Kudmala, Patimrittika,
83. Vi. LXIV, 12. "When he has bathed (submerging) his head' should be according to others (mentioned by Kull. and Râgh.) when he has anointed his head with oil.'
84. Yâgñ. I, 140.
85. Yagñ. I, 141. Medh., Gov., Nâr., and Nand. say, one king as bad as ten prostitutes' (vesyâ).
88-90. Vi. XLIII, 2–22. Når. and Gov. say expressly that narakam kalasůtram ka means the Kâlasůtra hell,' and När. that. Vaita
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