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THUS has been declared the mode, by which a Bráhmen, • who keeps house, must continually fubfift, together with the rule of • devotion ordained for a pupil returned from his preceptor; a laudable • rule, which increases the best of the three qualities.

260. A priest, who lives always by these rules, who knows the • ordinances of the Véda, who is freed from the bondage of fin, fhall be • absorbed in the divine effence.

CHAPTER THE FIFTH.

On Diet, Purification, and Women.

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THE

HE fages, having heard those laws delivered for the con'duct of housekeepers, thus addreffed the highminded BHRIGU, who ⚫ proceeded in a former birth from the genius of fire.

2. 'How, Lord, can death prevail over Bráhmens, who know the fcriptural ordinances, and perform their duties, as they have been

• declared?'

3. Then he, whofe difpofition was perfect virtue, even BHRIGU, the fon of MENU, thus anfwered the great Rihis: Hear, from 'what fin proceeds the inclination of death, to destroy the chief of 'the twice-born:

4. ' Through a neglect of reading the Véda, through a desertion of approved ufages, through fupine remissness in performing holy rites,

' and through various offences in diet, the genius of death becomes eager to destroy them.

5. Garlick, onions, leeks, and mushrooms (which no twice-born man must eat), and all vegetables raised in dung,

6. Red gums or refins, exuding from trees, and juices from ⚫ wounded stems, the fruit félu, and the thickened milk of a cow • within ten days after her calving, a priest must avoid with great

" care.

7. Ricepudding boiled with tila, frumenty, ricemilk, and baked bread, which have not been firft offered to fome deity, fleshmeat alfo, the food of gods, and clarified butter, which have not first been touched, while holy texts were recited,

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• Fresh milk from a cow, whose ten days are not passed, the milk ' of a camel, or any quadruped with a hoof not cloven, that of an and that of a cow in heat, or whofe calf is dead or absent • from her,

ewe,

9. 'That of any forest beast, except the buffalo, the milk of a woman, and any thing naturally sweet but acidulated, must all be ' carefully fhunned :

10. But among fuch acids, buttermilk may be swallowed, and

every preparation of buttermilk, and all acids extracted from pure flowers, roots, or fruit not cut with iron.

11. Let every twice-born man avoid carnivorous birds, and fuch as live in towns, and quadrupeds with uncloven hoofs, except thofe allowed by the Véda, and the bird called tittibha ;

12. The fparrow, the water bird plava, the phenicopteros, the 'chacraváca, the breed of the towncock, the fárafa, the rajjuvála, the woodpecker, and the parrot, male and female;

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13. Birds, that strike with their beaks, webfooted birds, the coyashti, thofe, who wound with ftrong talons, and those, who dive to devour 'fish: let him avoid meat kept at a flaughter house, and dried meat,

14. The heron, the raven, the c'hanjana, all amphibious fish' eaters, tame hogs,, and fish of every fort, but thofe expressly permitted.

15. He, who eats the flesh of any animal, is called the eater of • that animal itself; and a fifheater is an eater of all flesh; from fish, 'therefore, he must diligently abftain :

16. Yet the two fish, called páť'hina and róhita, may be eaten by 'the guests, when offered at a repaft in honour of the gods or the

manes ; and fo may the rájiva, the finhatunda, and the fasalca of every species.

17. Let him not eat the flesh of any folitary animals, nor of un'known beasts or birds, though by general words declared eatable, 'nor of any creature with five claws;

18. The hedgehog and porcupine, the lizard gódhá, the gandaca, 'the tortoife, and the rabbit or hare, wife legiflators declare lawful • food among fivetoed animals; and all quadrupeds, camels excepted,

' which have but one row of teeth.

19. The twiceborn man, who has intentionally eaten a mufh

room, the flesh of a tame hog, or a town cock, a leek, or an onion, or garlick, is degraded immediately;

20. But having undefignedly tafted either of those fix things,

' he must perform the penance fantapana, or the chándrayana,

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