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Manusmriti: The Laws of Manu |
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91.
If he applies sesamum to any other purpose but food, anointing, and
charitable gifts, he will be born (again) as a worm and, together
with his ancestors, be plunged into the ordure of dogs. 92.
By (selling) flesh, salt, and lack a Brahmana at once becomes an
outcast; by selling milk he becomes (equal to) a Sudra in three
days. 93.
But by willingly selling in this world other (forbidden)
commodities, a Brahmana assumes after seven nights the character of
a Vaisya. 94.
Condiments may be bartered for condiments, but by no means salt for
(other) condiments; cooked food (may be exchanged) for (other kinds
of) cooked food, and sesamum seeds for grain in equal quantities. 95.
A Kshatriya who has fallen into distress may subsist by all these
(means); but he must never arrogantly adopt the mode of life
(prescribed for his) betters. |
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