washed in water, and that which has been well-spoken
of. Samyava, Krisara, meat, Sashakuli and Payasa
should never be cooked for one’s own self.
Whenever cooked, these should be offered to the deities.[463]
One should attend every day to one’s fire.
One should every day give alms. One should, restraining
speech the while, clean one’s teeth with the
tooth-stick. One should never be in bed when
the sun is up. If one fails any day to be up
with the sun, one should then perform an expiation.
Rising from bed, one should first salute one’s
parents, and preceptors, or other seniors deserving
of respect. By so doing one attains to long life.
The tooth-stick should be cast off when done with,
and a new one should be used every day. One should
eat only such food as is not forbidden in the scriptures,
abstaining from food of every kind on days of the new
moon and the full moon. One should, with senses
restrained, answer calls of nature, facing the north.
One should not worship the deities without having
first washed one’s teeth, Without also worshipping
the deities first, one should never repair to any
person save one’s preceptor or one that is old
in years or one that is righteous or one that is possessed
of wisdom. They that are wise should never see
themselves in an unpolished or dirty mirror.
One should never have sexual congress with a woman
that is unknown or with one that is quick with child.
One should never sleep with head turned towards the
north or the west. One should not lie down upon
a bed-stead that is broken or rickety. One should
not sleep on a bed without having examined it first
with the aid of a light. Nor should one sleep
on a bed with another (such as wife) by one’s
side. One should never sleep in a transverse
direction. One should never make a compact with
atheists or do anything in conjunction with them.[464]
One should never drag a seat with the foot and sit
on it. One should never bathe in a state of nudity,
nor at night. One possessed of intelligence should
never suffer one’s limbs to be rubbed or pressed
after bathing. One should never smear unguents
upon one’s body without having first taken bath.
Having bathed, one should never wave one’s cloth
in the air (for drying it). One should not always
wear wet clothes. One should never take off one’s
body the garlands of flowers one may wear. Nor
should one wear such garlands over one’s outer
garments. One should never even talk with a woman
during the period of her functional change. One
should not answer a call of nature on a field (where
crops are grown) or at a place too near an inhabited
village. One should never answer a call of nature
on a water. One should first wash one’s
mouth thrice with water before eating any food.
Having finished one’s meals, one should wash
one’s mouth thrice with water and twice again.
One should eat, with face turned eastwards, one’s
food, restraining speech the while and without censuring
the food that is eaten. One should always leave