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APPENDIX. Extracts from the Manu Smriti.
(CHAPTER vi.) 1. Having crossed the householder's stage, the twice-born may enter the pānaprastha aśrama by conquering his senses.
2. When his skin becomes shrivelled up, when his hair turns grey, and when a grandson is born to him, the householder should detach himself from the objects of pleasure to enter the vanāprastha stage.
3. Giving up foods prepared with grains, such as barley, rice, etc., and such other objects as kine, horses, beds, stools (seats) and the like, he should take his wife with him to the forest, if she be willing to do so, otherwise he should proceed alone.
8. He should remain constantly engaged in the study of the Veda, and enduring the troubles due to heat, cold, etc., act as the helper of all, vigilantly inclined to give and opposed to receive gifts ; and he should be mercifully inclined towards all living beings.
14. He should abstain from taking honey, flesh
Note :-Honey is forbidden to the Jaina householder too (see the Ratna Karanda Sravakachara, sloka 66).
26. He should not seek pleasurable objects or tasty fruits, or to escape from the affliction arising from the inclemency of seasons (heat and cold); he should avoid sexual relations with his wife ; should sleep on the ground ; should not become attached to his hut, and should live under the shade of trees.
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