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IV, 130. VEDA-STUDY ; RULES FOR A SNÂTAKA.
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125. Knowing this, the learned daily repeat first in due order the essence of the three (Vedas) and afterwards the (text of the) Veda.
126. Know that the Veda-study must be) interrupted for a day and a night, when cattle, a frog, a cat, a dog, a snake, an ichneumon, or a rat pass between the teacher and his pupil).
127. Let a twice-born man always carefully interrupt the Veda-study on two (occasions, viz.) when the place where he recites is impure, and when he himself is unpurified.
128. A twice-born man who is a Snataka shall remain chaste on the new-moon day, on the eighth (lunar day of each half-month), on the full-moon day, and on the fourteenth, even (if they fall) in the period (proper for conjugal intercourse).
129. Let him not bathe immediately) after a meal, nor when he is sick, nor in the middle of the. night, nor frequently dressed in all his garments, nor in a pool which he does not perfectly know.
130. Let him not intentionally step on the shadow of images of) the gods, of a Guru, of a king, of a Snataka, of his teacher, of a reddish brown animal, or of one who has been initiated to the performance of a Srauta sacrifice (Dikshita).
125. "The essence of three (Vedas),' i.e. the syllable Om and the Gayatri; see above, II, 76–77.
128. Vi. LXIX, 1; Vas. XII, 21. According to others, quoted by Medh., the word brahmakârî translated by chaste' indicates that a Snataka must also in other respects behave like a student. Medh. thinks it possible that the abstention from honey and meat may also be indicated.
129. Ap. I, 32, 8; Baudh. II, 6, 25; Vi. LXIV, 3-4, 6. Not frequently,' i.e. only for particular reasons, such as being touched by a Kândâla.'
130. Yâgñ. I, 152 ; Vi. LXIII, 40. Babhru, a reddish brown
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