161. But a widow, who, from a wish to bear children, flights her deceased husband by marrying again, brings difgrace on herfelf here below, and fhall be excluded from the feat of her • lord.

162. Iffue, begotten on a woman by any other than her husband, is here declared to be no progeny of hers; no more than a child, begotten on the wife of another man, belongs to the begetter: nor is a fecond husband allowed, in any part of this code, to a virtuous

• woman.

163. She, who neglects her former (púrva) lord, though of a lower • class, and takes another (para) of a higher, becomes despicable in this world, and is called parapúrvá, or one who had a different busband before.

164. A married woman, who violates the duty, which the owes to ⚫ her lord, brings infamy on herself in this life, and, in the next, shall ⚫ enter the womb of a shakal, or be afflicted with elephantiafis, and other ' diseases, which punish crimes ;

165. While she, who flights not her lord, but keeps her mind, fpeech, and body, devoted to him, attains his heavenly manfion, and • by good men is called fådhvì, or virtuous.

166. Yes; by this courfe of life it is, that a woman, whose mind, fpeech, and body are kept in fubjection, acquires high re'nown in this world, and, in the next, the fame abode with her hus• band.

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167. A twiceborn man, verfed in facred ordinances, must burn, • with hallowed fire and fit implements of sacrifice, his wife dying be• fore him, if she was of his own class, and lived by these rules:

168. Having thus kindled facred fires, and performed funeral rites • to his wife, who died before him, he may again marry, and again light the nuptial fire.

169. Let him not cease to perform day by day according to the preceding rules, the five great facraments; and, having taken a law⚫ful confort, let him dwell in his house during the second period of his • life.

CHAPTER THE SIXTH.

On Devotion; or on the Third and Fourth Orders.

1.

HAVING thus remained in the order of a housekeeper, as the law ordains, let the twiceborn man, who had before completed his studentship, dwell in a forest, his faith being firm and his organs wholly fubdued.

2. When the father of a family, perceives his muscles become

• flaccid and his hair gray, and fees the child of his child, let him then • seek refuge in a forest:

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3. Abandoning all food eaten in towns, and all his household utenfils, let him repair to the lonely wood, committing the care of his wife to her fons, or accompanied by her, if he chufe to attend him.

4. Let him take up his confecrated fire, and all his domeftick implements of making oblations to it, and, departing from the town to the foreft, let him dwell in it with complete power over his organs of fenfe and of action.

great facraments before mentioned, introducing them with due cere• monies.

6. Let him wear a black antelope's hide, or a vefture of bark;

⚫ let him bathe evening and morning; let him fuffer the hairs of his

head, his beard, and his nails to grow continually.

7. From fuch food, as himself may eat, let him, to the utmost of his power, make offerings and give alms; and with prefents of water, roots, and fruit, let him honour thofe, who vifit his hermitage.

8. Let him be conftantly engaged in reading the Véda; patient of all extremities, univerfally benevolent, with a mind intent on the Supreme Being; a perpetual giver, but no receiver of gifts; with

tender affection for all animated bodies.

9.

Let him, as the law directs, make oblations on the hearth with three facred fires; not omitting in due time the ceremonies to be performed at the conjunction and oppofition of the moon.

10. Let him also perform the facrifice ordained in honour of the

lunar conftellations, make the prefcribed offering of new grain, and folemnize holy rites every four months, and at the winter and fummer folftices.

11. With pure grains, the food of ancient fages, growing in the • vernal and autumnal seasons, and brought home by himself, let him feverally make, as the law ordains, the oblations of cakes and boiled