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CONTENTS

 

 

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INTRODUCTION TO ÂPASTAMBA

ix

INTRODUCTION TO GAUTAMA

xlix

ÂPASTAMBA'S APHORISMS ON THE SACRED LAW

 

General Rules

1

Initiation

2

Studentship

7

A Student who has returned Home

29

The Study of the Veda

32

A Student who has returned Home

48

Saluting

51

Purification

54

Eating, and Forbidden Food

59

Lawful Livelihood

71

Penance

75

Rules for a Snâtaka

92

The Duties of a Householder

99

Inheritance

130

Funeral Oblations

137

The Four Orders

153

The King

161

GAUTAMA'S INSTITUTES OF THE SACRED LAW.

 

Initiation

175

Purification

179

Studentship

182

The Ascetic

192

The Hermit

195

The Householder

196

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Saluting

207

Times of Distress

211

A King and Brâhmana versed in the Vedas

214

The Duties of a Snâtaka

218

Lawful Occupations and Livelihood.

227

The Duties of a King

234

Civil and Criminal Law

238

Witnesses

246

Impurity

249

Funeral Oblations

255

The Study of the Veda

259

Eating, and Forbidden Food

265

Women

270

Penances

274

Inheritance

302

Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East

311


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