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