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(3) Auguries drawn from thunderbolts and other celestial portents.
(4) Prognostication by interpreting dreams.
(5) Fortune-telling from marks on the body.
(6) Auguries from the marks on cloth gnawed by mice.
(7) Sacrificing to Agni.
(8) Offering oblations from a spoon.
(9-13) Making offerings to gods of husks, of the red powder between the grain and the husk, of husked grain ready for boiling, or ghee and of oil.
(14) Sacrificing by spewing mustard seeds, & c, into the fire out of one’s mouth.
(15) Drawing blood from one’s right knee as a sacrifice to the gods.
(16) Looking at the knuckles, & c, and, after muttering a charm, divining whether a man is well born of luck or not.
(17) Determining whether the site for a proposed house or pleasance, is luck or not.
(18) Advising on customary law.
(19) Laying demons in a cemetery.
(20) Laying ghosts.
(21) Knowledge of the charms to be used when lodging in an earth house.
(22) Snake charming.
(23) The poison craft.
(24) The scorpion craft”.
(25) The mouse craft.
(26) The bird craft.
(27) The crow craft.
(28) Foretelling the number of years that man has yet to live.
(29) Giving charms to ward off arrows.
(30) The animal wheel.
The Brahmins earned their living by wrong means of livelihood, by low arts, such as these:
Knowledge of the signs of good and bad qualities in the following things and of the marks in them denoting the health or luck of their owners: to wit,
gems, staves, garments, swords, arrows, bows, other weapons, women, men, boys, girls, slaves, slave-girls, elephants, horses, buffaloes, bulls, oxen, goats, sheep, fowls, quails, iguanas, herrings, tortoises, and other animals.