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- (26) You must not sell women (receive money for girls given in marriage).
- (27) You must not fast in order to obtain fulfilment of your desires.
- (28) Bathing is all that a woman should observe if she touches another in her menses. (A woman touching another who is in this state should, it is said, purify herself by bathing. A man should change his thread, and undergo sacred ablution. Women, during their periods, are not required to keep aloof, as is the custom among non-Malabar Brāhmans.)
- (29) Brāhmans should not spin cotton.
- (30) Brāhmans should not wash cloths for themselves.
- (31) Kshatriyas should avoid worshipping the lingam.
- (32) Brāhmans should not accept funeral gifts from Sūdras.
- (33) Perform the anniversary ceremony of your father (father's father, mother's father and both grand-mothers).
- (34) Anniversary ceremonies should be performed on the day of the new moon (for the gratification of the spirits of the deceased).
- (35) The death ceremony should be performed at the end of the year, counting from the day of death.
- (36) The ceremony to be performed till the end of the year after death (Dīksha is apparently referred to).
- (37) Srāddhas should be performed with regard to the stars (according to the astronomical, not the lunar year).
- (38) The death ceremony should not be performed until after the pollution caused by childbirth has been removed.
