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Lxx.

1.
He must not sleep with his feet wet;

2. Nor facing the north or the west;

3. Nor naked; 4. Nor on wet (fresh) bamboo;

5. Nor in the open air;

6. Nor on a bedstead made of Pal"s"a-wood;

7. Nor on one made of the wood of five trees;

8. Nor on one made of the wood of a tree which has been split by an elephant;

9. Nor on a bedstead made of the wood of a tree that has been kindled by lightning;

10.
Nor on a broken bedstead;

11.
Nor on one made of scorched wood;

12.
Nor on one made of the wood of a tree that used to be watered with a jar;

13.
Nor in a burial-ground, nor in an empty house, nor in a temple;

14.
Nor with people who are restless of limb;

15.
Nor with women;

16.
Nor on grain, nor (in a stable of) cows, nor (on the couch of any of his) Gurus, nor on the fireplace, nor (in a building dedicated to the) gods.

17.
He must not sleep while the remnants of

[lxx. 1. M. Iv, 76.--2. Y. I, 136.--3.
\"s"v. Iii, 9, 6; M. Iv, 75; Gaut. Ix, 60.--13. M. Iv, 57.--17. \"S"nkh. Iv, 11, 17; past. I, 1, 2, 24; Gaut. Ii, 13.

7.
Nand. mentions three explanations of this term: 1. a bedstead made of five pieces of wood (or of the wood of five trees); 2. a bedstead made of any of the five kinds of wood enumerated in the Vish"n"u-pur"n"a; 3. a bedstead made of any of the five kinds of wood enumerated in Stras 8-12. The second explanation is inadmissible, because part of the species of wood mentioned in the passage of the Vish"n"u-pur"n"a referred to as identical with those enumerated in Stras 8-12.]

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food are on his hands or face, nor in the day-time, nor in the twilight, nor upon ashes, nor in a place soiled (by excrements and the like), nor in a wet place, nor on the top of a mountain.
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