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APPENDIX II
VI. Duties to be performed —contd.
Vanaprastha Sannyasi
and compassionate towards all living creatures.”
VI. 9 “Let him offer, according to the law, the Agnihotra with three sacred fires, never omitting the newmoon and full-moon sacrifices at the proper time.”
VI. 10 “Let him also offer the Nakshatreshti, the Agrayana, and the Katurmasya (sacrifices), as well as Turayana and likewise the Dakshayana, in due order.”
VI. 23 “In Summer let him expose himself to the heat of the five fires, during the rainy season live under the open sky, and in winter be dressed in wet clothes, (thus) gradually increasing (the rigour of) his austerities.”
VI. 24 “When he bathes at the three Savanas (sunrise, midday and sunset), let him offer libations of water to the manes and the Gods, and practising harsher and harsher austerities, let him dry up his bodily frame.”
VI. 25 “Having reposited the three sacred fires in himself, according to the prescribed rule, let him live without a fire, without a house wholly silent, subsisting on roots and fruit.”
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