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GRIHYA-SOTRA OF GOBHILA.
8. Their garments are made of linen, of hempen cloth, of cotton, or of wool (according to the caste to which the student belongs).
9. The skins (which they wear), are an antelopeskin, or the skin of a spotted deer, or a goat's skin.
10. Their girdles are made of Muñga grass, of Kâsa grass, of Tâmbala.
11. Their staffs are of Parna wood, of Bilva wood, of Asvattha wood.
12. The garment of a Brâhmana is made of linen, or of hempen cloth, that of a Kshatriya, of cotton, that of a Vaisya, of wool.
13. Thereby also the other articles have been explained.
14. Or if (the proper articles prescribed) cannot be got, all (of them may be used) by (persons of) all castes.
15. To the east of the house on a surface besmeared (with cow-dung) wood has been put on the fire.
16. Having sacrificed with the Mantras which the student recites) : Agni! Lord of the vow' (MB. I, 6, 9-13), the teacher stations himself to the west
8. There are four kinds of garments indicated, though only persons of three castes are concerned. The explanation of this apparent incongruence follows from Sūtra 12.
10. Tambala is stated to be a synonym for sana (hemp).
13. As the garments indicated in Satra 8 belong, in the order in which they are stated, to persons of the three castes respectively, thus also of the skins (Satra 9), of the girdles (Sätra 10), and of the staffs (Sūtra 11); the first is that belonging to a Brahmana, the second, to a Kshatriya, and the third, to a Vaisya.
15. Comp. above, chap. 9, 2.
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