f it be an aquatic one.[467] A garland of gold
can under no circumstances become impure. After one has bathed, O king,
one should use perfumes mixed with water.[468] One should never wear
one's upper garment for covering the lower limbs or the lower garments
for covering the upper ones. Nor should one wear clothes worn by another.
One should not, again, wear a piece of cloth that has not its lateral
fringes.[469] When one goes to bed, O king, one should wear a different
piece of cloth. When making a journey also on a road, one should wear a
different piece of cloth. So also, when worshipping the deities, one
should wear a different piece of cloth.[470] The man of intelligence
should smear his limbs with unguents made of Priyangu, sandalwood, Vilwa,
Tagara, and Kesara.[471] In observing a fast, one should purify oneself
by a bath, and adorn one's person with ornaments and unguents. One should
always abstain from sexual congress on days of the full moon and the new
moon. One should never, O monarch, eat off the same plate with another
even if that other happens to be of one's own or equal rank. Nor should
one ever eat any food that has been prepared by a woman in her functional
period. One should never eat any food or drink, any liquid whose essence
has been taken off. Nor should one eat anything without giving a portion
thereof to persons that wishfully gaze at the food that one happens to
take. The man of intelligence should never sit close to one that is
impure. Nor should one sit close to persons that are foremost in
piety.[472] All food that is forbidden in ritual acts should never be
taken even on other occasions. The fruits of the Ficus religiosa and the
Ficus Bengalensis as also the leaves of the Crotolaria Juncea, and the
fruits of the Ficus glomerata, should never be eaten by one who is
desirous of his own good. The flesh of goats, of kine, and the peacock,
should never be eaten. One should also abstain from dried flesh and all
flesh that is stale. The man of intelligence should never eat any salt,
taking it up with his hand. Nor should he eat curds and flour of fried
barley at night. One should abstain also from flesh of animals not slain
in sacrifices. One should, with concentrated attention, eat once in the
morning and once in the evening, abstaining entirely from all food,
during the interval. One should never eat any food in which one may
detect a hair. Nor should one eat at the Sraddha of an enemy. One should