•
Women must be honored by their fathers,
brothers, husbands, and brothers-in-law who desire welfare. When
women are honored, the Gods are pleased, but where they are not
honored, no sacred rite yields results.
•
A householder commits offences through
five slaughterhouses, viz. The hearth, the grindingstone,the broom,
the pestle and mortar, the water vessel, by using which he is
bound with the fetters of sin.To expiate these offences,
great sages have prescribed the performance of five sacrifices.
1. Teaching and studying is the sacrifice offered to Brahman
(Ahuta)
2. The offering of water and food called Tarpana, the sacrifice
to the manes (Prasita)
3. The burnt oblation the sacrifice offered to Gods (Huta)
4. The Bali offering that is offered to Bhutas (Prahuta)
5. The hospitable reception of guests and offerings to men
(Brahmya Huta)
• If he is
able to perform these sacrifices, he is not tainted by the sins
committed in the five places of slaughter.
• The
householder who does private recitations of the Veda and also
makes offerings to the Gods, while performing sacrifices
supports both the movables and the immovable creation.
• Grass,
room for resting, water and a kind word- these things never fail
in the houses of good men. Having honoured the Gods, sages,
men, the manes, and the guardian deities of the house, the householder
shall eat afterwards what remains.
• No
guest must stay in the house without being honored.
•
One shall never look at the Sun when
it sets or rises, is eclipsed or reflected in water or when it
is in the middle of the sky.
• One
shall not step over a rope to which a calf is tied, not run when
it rains and not look at one's reflection in water.
• One
shall not eat, dressed in one garment only, and not bathe naked,
not urinate on the road, on ploughed land, in water, on a mountain
or on the ruins of a temple
• One
shall not blow a fire with his mouth, not look at a naked women,
not throw any impure substance into the fire and not warm
his feet at it
• One
shall not use shoes, garments, a sacred string, ornaments, garlands,
or water vesselswhich have been used by others.
• The
morning sun and the smoke rising from burning corpses must be
avoided · He shall not clip or tear his nails or hair with
his teeth.
• One
shall not scratch his head with both hands joined
• In
water, in the middle of the night, while excreting or if he is
impure and after he has partaken of a funeral dinner a man must
not think in his heart of the sacred texts.
• One
shall not bathe immediately after a meal, nor when he is sick,
nor in the middle of the night Purification
• The
knowledge of austerities, fire, holy food, earth, the restraint
of internal organs, water
smearing cow dung, the wind, sacred rites, the Sun and time
are the purifiers of mortal beings.
• The body
is cleansed by water; the internal organ is purified by truthfulness,
the individual soul by sacred learning and austerities and the
intellect by true knowledge.
• Law
regarding the purification of the various inanimate things are
all objects made of metal, gems and anything made of stone
are to be cleansed with ashes, earth and water.
• A
golden vessel, which shows no stains, becomes pure with water
alone.
• Copper,
Iron, brass, pewter, tin and lead must be cleansed by alkaline
substances, acids or water
• At
sacrifices the purification of sacrificial vessels takes place
by rubbing them with the hand, and then rinsing them with water.
• Large
quantities of grain and cloth by sprinkling with water
• A
house by sweeping and smearing it with cow dung or white wash
