O Shalya, the sayings, already passed into proverbs, that men, young and old, and women, and persons arrived in course of their listless wanderings, generally utter, as if those sayings formed part of their studies, about the wicked Madrakas. brahmanas also duly narrated the same things formerly in the courts of kings.  Listening to those sayings attentively, O fool, thou mayst forgive or rejoin.  The Madraka is always a hater of friends.  He that hateth us is a Madraka.  There is no friendship in the Madraka who is mean in speech and is the lowest of mankind.  The Madraka is always a person of wicked soul, is always untruthful and crooked.  It hath been heard by us that till the moment of death the Madrakas are wicked. (Amongst the Madrakas) the sire, the son, the mother, the mother-in-law, the brother, the grand-son, and other kinsmen, companions, strangers arrived at their homes, slaves male and female, mingle together.  The women of the Madrakas mingle, at their own will, with men known and unknown.  Of unrighteous conduct, and subsisting upon fried and powdered corn and fish, in their homes, they laugh and cry having drunk spirits and eaten beef.  They sing incoherent songs and mingle lustfully with one another, indulging the while in the freest speeches.  How then can virtue have a place amongst the Madrakas who are arrogant and notorious for all kinds of evil acts?  No one should make friends with a Madraka or provoke hostilities with him.  In the Madraka land there is no friendship.  The Madraka is always the dirt of humanity.  Amongst the Madrakas all acts of friendship are lost as purity amongst the Gandharakas and the libations poured in a sacrifice in which the king is himself the sacrificer and priest.  Then again, it is truly seen that wise men treat a person bit by a scorpion and affected by its poison, even with these words:  ’As a brahmana that assists at the religious ceremonies of a Shudra suffereth degradation, as one that hateth brahmanas always suffereth degradation, even so a person by making an alliance with the Madrakas becometh fallen.  As there is no friendship in the Madraka, so, O scorpion, thy poison is nought.’  With these mantras of the Atharvan I have duly performed the rite of exorcism.  Knowing this, O learned one, hold thy tongue, or listen to something further that I will say.  Those women that, intoxicated by spirits, cast off their robes and dance, those women that are not attached (to particular individuals) in the matter of intercourse and that they do as they please without owning any restrictions, I say, that being as thou art the child of one of those women, how canst thou, O Madraka, be a fit person for declaring the duties of men?  Those women that live and answer calls of nature like camels and asses, being as thou art the child of one of those sinful and shameless creatures, how canst thou wish to declare the duties of men?  When a Madraka woman is solicited for the gift of a little quantity of vinegar, she