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Mat, 187&] ANCIENT INDIA ACCOlWrxn TO M 120 what may please kin preceptor : when those threu arc nutislioJ, bis whole course of devutiou is luvompliahod. Due rovcrenca to those tl.: U.'ppiii as the highest iliivotion, ami heir approbation ho mntf pttrforni no olber duty. , JJo who neglects not tboee three when he L LwuivL'Lfpcr will ul t i ma '-ely obtain dominion orer the three worlds, nnd, his ,..'< ... " .... supremo bliss in heaven. By honouring lib mo- ther he gains thii world, by hoitonring hii father rj, and hy assiduous atteniinn to wptorevon the world of Ih-ahma." With hia preceptor cmmm*d a varying time, but at nnj into until ho was prepa keep house on his own account. During iJio bo was Iwund to submit him* wlf to a Spartan disciplinu (p. -15 f -20). Ha •run. his diot was spore, on- f. achat he could obtain by bogging (p. 40, 163), Ho was to abstain from every posaihlo farm of njoymont (p. 89.175 d *»*?</), audio keep aloof from all theph-araria nf the world. In the presence? of bis preceptor his demeanour was to lie downcast and humble (p. 45, 218). •' As ho who digs deep with a spado nemos to a ••iitor, *n x ha student, who humbly servos his toucher, attains the knowlodgo whirl deep in bis teacher b mind. And when thfldays of studentship are ended, and the young Kr.Vhmau lias entered np^n hou -^keeping db ho mast cultivate aud maintain on impassive and dignified h he mm ho «nctty pure and IS lifi.--.ho most, before all things, be liberal in hi* hospitality to Hrah- niana (p. mum iml to those dependent 00 him, fur duty's mj' hem must bo post- poned bin own familiar friend*, hmaiuse kindness rendered on I -cot or friendship ursclf- ilhnen bring-i no fruit in the next world (|». <;,;, i . i n ^must bo in conventional words, according to tho class of tho porsnti greeted. Finally (p. 145, 1. p. I Ml), "l, . remained in tho Ardor or kutrpex, a* tho low ordains, lot I bo twice- born man who had before completed his *tn» OflBtahip dwoll i»< a forest, his faith being firm, and his ergjr >' subdomL When the mther of ft family i his muscles become flaccid and nil hr.ir grvv, and sees tho child of liis child, then lut him sock refuge fore presented to n& in a sad and gloomy aspect that which tho Hindu A side-red thy jicrfvctiou of butuaa life. Ii loom is any troth in tho modern thomy, that the trmo of man'* thonglu and tlm working; of hia imaginative farmltii-fl is largely influenced by ■~A ■urol plw.no uieiw ojnld Ifftooh ttkO era-die i>rhb raeo was* plaood, wc oaghl 'e to the Sanskrit peoplf original expuri-mccs akin to those of their Ttmtouio cousiniS rothcT tlmii thoKQ which conicrrod upon the Aryans of Ijorn Eur present chamcuTLftic light-hearted brifrf' At of tho [a$(itvkf- t Sanskrit, oordhuj to a gloss of Kulluka* was not kwl- nndciittood by men, and Heominjly not at all by Xfooi' l'2'.). Probably, if it over wns a vcrnnoular in tho poh.thf-1 and Bcicntiiically oomttructod form si ;h wo know it. it baa then cooaxlto bo so, Kodonbt. tho laufrnaaw commonly spo ken . !' : ho district, and wss a dialect of a Sanskrit oriur- Thei-o wrw, however, foroi^u ItngnngCi valcui, non-Aryan, i- ■- dwtinjnishod from tluii of the Aryans, and it is v« that Man n eoems to rockon somu win? upoku t hoe as descendants, thongh oat-caatc*, frou e p*>fi?>])f wart poor, uveti as oomparod with Hindus of the present nay, hi abundantly dear. For a while bsnry was mainly pes torn I, and theiT acquired ■wealth took the ehapo of herds- In una portion oftlto ln*tiltd** % when property is spoken of (as when ft pm- t a BiiUioian [g numtionod, or when a partition faota-> » bo ehectcd), cattle has the prindpal place and importance attrih Hot at a later period agr tore and trade aoqiiirvd coriaidssaom develop- went There is a Deuteronomy in tho Dharm* •S'&Vrii, and n comparison of the two ezposituins brinp thk advance to view. The people livisl in larg^» families under ono ro.it". or in one dwdltng-plaec, as thv, I little Ludicatiou of luCTiy about I hem . Inlkinj? birds were to be a kIng T s palaco (p. 177. 1*9), and a wealthy leaseholder might have a ridijig-hoo** or carriage and orno- twmm (p. 2f»4. 150:) "A fleld or noht, a jewel. • sw flsBkir, Tjua«v «e.