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LAWS OF MANU.
IV, 131.
131. At midday and at midnight, after partaking of meat at a funeral dinner, and in the two twilights let him not stay long on a cross-road.
132. Let him not step intentionally on things used for cleansing the body, on water used for a bath, on urine or ordure, on blood, on mucus, and on anything spat out or vomited.
133. Let him not show particular attention to an enemy, to the friend of an enemy, to a wicked man, to a thief, or to the wife of another man.
134. For in this world there is nothing so detrimental to long life as criminal conversation with another man's wife.
135. Let him who desires prosperity, indeed, never despise a Kshatriya, a snake, and a learned Brahmana, be they ever so feeble.
136. Because these three, when treated with disrespect, may utterly destroy him; hence a wise man must never despise them.
137. Let him not despise himself on account of former failures; until death let him seek fortune, nor despair of gaining it.
138. Let him say what is true, let him say what is pleasing, let him utter no disagreeable truth, and let him utter no agreeable falsehood; that is the eternal law.
animal,' is not clearly explained by Gov., Kull., and Râgh. Medh. thinks that a brown cow' or 'the Soma creeper' may be meant. Nand. adopts the former view, and Nâr. explains it by 'a brown creature.'
132. Vi. LXIII, 41; Yâgñ. I, 152.
Apasnânam,' water used for
a bath,' means according to Nâr. and Nand. 'water used for washing a corpse.'
135-136. Yâgn. I, 153.
138. Gaut. IX, 68; Vi. LXXI, 73-74; Yâgñ. I, 132.
137. Vi. LXXI, 76; Yâgñ. I, 153.
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