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IV, 82. HOUSEHOLDER; RULES FOR A SNÂTAKA.
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75. Let him not eat after sunset any (food) containing sesamum grains ; let him never sleep naked, nor go anywhere unpurified (after meals).
76. Let him eat while his feet are (yet) wet (from the ablution), but let him not go to bed with wet feet. He who eats while his feet are (still) wet, will attain long life.
77. Let him never enter a place, difficult of access, which is impervious to his eye; let him not look at urine or ordure, nor cross a river (swimming) with his arms.
78. Let him not step on hair, ashes, bones, potsherds, cotton-seed or chaff, if he desires long life.
79. Let him not stay together with outcasts, nor with Kandalas, nor with Pukkasas, nor with fools, nor with overbearing men, nor with low-caste men, nor with Antyâvasayins.
80. Let him not give to a Sudra advice, nor the remnants (of his meal), nor food offered to the gods; nor let him explain the sacred law (to such a man), nor impose (upon him) a penance.
81. For he who explains the sacred law (to a Sudra) or dictates to him a penance, will sink together with that (man) into the hell (called) Asamvrita.
82. Let him not scratch his head with both hands
75. Gaut. IX, 60; Vi. LXVIII, 29; LXXI, 3; see above, II, 56. 76. Vi. LXVIII, 34; LXX, 1.
77. Ap. I, 32, 26; Gaut. IX, 32; Vas. XII, 45; Baudh. II, 6, 26; Vi. LXIII, 46.
78. Âp. II, 20, 11; Gaut. IX, 15; Baudh. II, 6, 16; Yâgs. I, 139.
79. Regarding the Pukkasas and Antyâvasayins, see below, X, 18, 39.
80. Åp. I, 31, 34; Vi. LXXI, 48-52; Vas. XVIII, 14. 81. Vas. XVIII, 15.
82. Vi. LXXI, 53.
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