pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: अन्यस्य चाप्यवस्नातं दूरतः परिवर्जयेत्॥ शान्तिहोमांश्च कुर्वीत सावित्राणि च धारयेत्।
English: One should, never use the water that has been used by another for bathing. One should always perform the Homa for propitiating the celestials, and recite the Savitri Mantras.
Sanskrit: निषण्णश्चापि खादेत न तु गच्छन् कदाचन॥ मूत्रं नोत्तिष्ठता कार्यं न भस्मनि न गोव्रजे।
English: One should always eat in a seated posture. One should never eat while walking. One should never answer a call of nature standing. One should never answer a call of nature on ashes or in a cowpen.
Sanskrit: आर्द्रपादस्तु भुञ्जीत नार्द्रपादस्तु संविशेत्॥ आर्द्रपादस्तु भुजानो वर्षाणां जीवते शतम्।
English: One should wash his feet before sitting to one's meals. One should never sit or lie down for slecp with wet feet. One who sits to his meals after having washed his feet, lives for a century.
Sanskrit: त्रीणि तेजांसि नोच्छिष्ट आलभेत कदाचन॥ अग्निं गां ब्राह्मणं चैव तथा ह्यायुर्न रिष्यते।
English: One should never touch these three things, while one is in an impure state, viz., fire, a cow and a Brahmana. By observing this rule one lives long.
Sanskrit: त्रीणि तेजांसि नोच्छिष्ट उदीक्षेत कदाचन॥ सूर्याचन्द्रमसौ चैव नक्षत्राणि च सर्वशः।
English: One should not, while he is in an impure state, cast one's eyes on these three things, viz., the sun, the moon and the stars.
Sanskrit: ऊर्ध्वं प्राणा ह्युत्क्रामन्ति यूनः स्थविर आयति॥ प्रत्युत्थानाभिवादाभ्यां पुनस्तान् प्रतिपद्यते।
English: The lifebreaths of a young man go up wards, when an old and venerable person comes to his house. He gets them back by standing up and properly saluting the guest.
Sanskrit: अभिवादयीत वृद्धांश्च दद्याच्चैवासनं स्वयम्॥ कृताञ्जलिरुपासीत गच्छन्तं पृष्ठतोऽन्वियात्।
English: Old men should always be saluted. One should, upon seeing them, offer seats with his own hand. After the old man has taken his seat, a person should sit and remain with hands joined in respect. When an old man goes along the road, one should always follow him instead of walking ahead.
Sanskrit: न चासीतासने भिन्ने भिन्नकांस्यं च वर्जयेत्॥ नैकवस्त्रेण भोक्तव्यं न नग्नः स्नातुमर्हति।
English: One should never sit on a torn or broken seat. One should, without using it any longer, throw away a broken vessel of white brass. One should, never eat without a piece of upper garinent covering his body. One should never bathe in a nude state.
Sanskrit: स्वप्तव्यं नैव नग्नेन न चोच्छिष्टोऽपि संविशेत्॥ उच्छिष्टो न स्पृशेच्छीर्षं सर्वे प्राणास्तदाश्रयाः।
English: One should never sleep in a naked state. One should never even touch the remnants of other people's dishes and plates. One should never, while he is in an impure state, touch another's head, for it is said in the scriptures that the vital airs are all concentrated in the head.
Sanskrit: केशग्रहं प्रहारांश्च शिरस्येतान् विवर्जयेत्॥ न संहताभ्यां पाणिभ्यां कण्डूयेदात्मनः शिरः।
English: One should never strike another on the heads or seize another by the hair. One should prol join his hand together for scratching his head.
Sanskrit: न चाभीक्ष्णं शिरःस्नायात् तथा यायुर्न रिष्यते॥ शिरःस्नातस्तु तैलैश्च नाङ्गं किंचिदपि स्पृशेत्।
English: One should not, while bathing, repeatedly dip his head in water. By so doing one shortens one's life. One who has bathed by dipping the head in water should not, afterwards put oil to any part of his body.
Sanskrit: तिलसृष्टं न चाश्नीयात् तथास्यायुर्न रिष्यते॥ नाध्यापयेत् तथोच्छिष्टो नाधीयीत कदाचन।
English: One should never take his mcals without cating some sesame. One should never teach (the Vedas or any scriptures) at a time when he is impure. Nor should onc study while is impure.
Sanskrit: वाते च पूतिगन्धे च मनसापि न चित्नयेत्॥ अत्र गाथा यमोद्गीताः कीर्तयन्ति पुराविदः। आयुरस्य निकृन्तामि प्रजास्तस्याददे तथा॥ उच्छिष्टो यः प्राद्रवति स्वाध्यायं चाधिगच्छति। यश्चानध्यायकालेऽपि मोहादभ्यस्यति द्विजः॥ तस्य वेदः प्रणश्येत आयुश्च परिहीयते।
English: When a storm rises or a bad smell spreads itself in the atmosphere, he should never think of the Vedas. Persons knowing ancient history recite a Gatha sung by Yama in days of yore. He who runs while impure or studies the Veda under similar circumstances, indeed, that twice born Brahman who studies the Veda at forbidden times loses his Veda and shortens his life.
Sanskrit: तस्माद् युक्तो ह्यनध्याये नाधीयीत कदाचन॥ प्रत्यादित्यं प्रत्यनलं प्रति गां च प्रति द्विजान्। ये मेहन्ति च पन्थानं ते भवन्ति गतायुषः॥ उभे मूत्रपुरीषे तु दिवा कुर्यादुदङ्मुखः।
English: Hence, one should never study the Veda with rapt altention at forbidden times. They who answer a call of nature, with face towards the sun or towards a burning fire, or towards a cow, or towards a twice born person, or on the road, become shortlived. At day time both calls of nature should be answered with face turned towards the north.
Sanskrit: दक्षिणाभिमुखो रात्रौ तथा ह्यायुर्न रिष्यते॥ त्रीन् कृशान् नावजानीयाद् दीर्घमायुर्जिजीविषुः। ब्राह्मणं क्षत्रियं सर्प सर्वे ह्याशीविषास्त्रयः॥ दहत्याशीविषः क्रद्धो यावत् पश्यति चक्षुषा।
English: At night, those calls should be answered facing the south. By so doing one does not shorten his life. One who wishes to live long should never disregard or insult any of these three, however weak or emaciated they may appear to be, viz., the Brahmana, the Kshatriya, and the snake. All three are gifted with dreadful poison. The snake, of angry, burns the victim with only a look of its eye.
Sanskrit: क्षत्रियोऽपि दहेत् क्रूद्धो यावत् स्पृशति तेजसा॥ ब्राह्मणस्तु कुलं हन्याद् ध्यानेनावेक्षितेन च।
English: The Kshatriya also, if angry, burns the object of his anger, as soon as he sees him, with his energy. The Brahmana, stronger than any of these two, destroys, not only the object of his anger but his entire family as well, not by looks alone but by thought also.
Sanskrit: तस्मादेतत् त्रयं यत्नादुपसेवेत पण्डितः॥ गुरुणा चैव निर्बधो न कर्तव्यः कदाचन।
English: A wise man should, therefore, tend these three carefully. One should never engage in any disputation with his preceptor.
Sanskrit: अनुमान्यः प्रसाद्यश्च गुरुः क्रद्धो युधिष्ठिर॥ सम्यङ्गमिथ्या प्रवृत्तेऽपि वर्तितव्यं गुराविह।
English: O Yudhishthira, if the preceptor becomes angry, he should always be pacified with due honors. If the preceptor is entirely in the wrong, still one should follow and honour him.
Sanskrit: गुरुनिन्दा दहत्यायुर्मनुष्याणां न संशयः॥ दूरादावसथान्मूत्रं दूरात् पादावसेचनम्।
English: Forsooth, calumnious sayings against the preceptor always consume the lives of those who utter them. One should always answer a call of nature at a spot far distant from his dwelling place. One should wash his feet at a distance from his dwelling place.
Sanskrit: उच्छिष्टोत्सर्जनं चैव दूरे कार्यं हितैषिणा॥ रक्तमाल्यं न धार्य स्याच्छुक्लं धार्य तु पण्डितैः।
English: One should always throw the remnants of his dishes and plates at a spot distant from his dwelling place. Indeed, he who wishes for his own behoof should do all this. One should not wear garlands of red flowers. Indeed, the wise should wear garlands of white flowers.
Sanskrit: वर्जयित्वा तु कमलं तथा कुवलयं प्रभो॥ रक्तं शिरसि धार्य तु तथा वानेयमित्यपि।
English: Rejecting the lotus and the lily, O you of great might, one may bear on his head, however, a flower that is red, even if it be an aquatic one.
Sanskrit: काञ्चनीयापि माला या न सा दुष्यति कर्हिचित्।।८४ स्नातस्य वर्णकं नित्यमाई दद्याद् विशाम्पते।
English: A garland of gold can never become impure. After one has bathed, O king, he should use perfumes mixed with water.
Sanskrit: विपर्ययं न कुर्वीत वाससो बुद्धिमान् नरः॥ तथा नान्यधृतं धार्य न चापदशमेव च।
English: One should never wear his upper garment for covering the lower limbs or the lower garments for covering the upper ones. Nor should one wear clothes used by another. One should not, again, wear a piece of cloth that has not its fringes.
Sanskrit: अन्यदेव भवेद् वासः शयनीये नरोत्तम॥ अन्यद् रथ्यासु देवानामायामन्यदेव हि।
English: When one goes to bed, O king, he should wear a different piece of cloth. When passing along a road, one should wear a different piece of cloth. So also, when adoring the celestials, one should wear a different piece of cloth.
Sanskrit: प्रियङ्गुचन्दनाभ्यां च बिल्वेन तगरेण च॥ पृथगेवानुलिम्पेत केसरेण च बुद्धिमान्।
English: The intelligent man should smear his limbs with unguents made of Priyangu, sandal wood, Bilva, Tagara, and Keshara.
Sanskrit: उपवासं च कुर्वीत स्नातः शुचिरलंकृतः॥ पर्वकालेषु सर्वेषु ब्रह्मचारी सदा भवेत्।
English: In observing a fast, one should purify himself by a bath, and adorn his body with ornaments and unguents. One should always abstain from sexual union on days of the full moon and the new moon.
Sanskrit: समानमेकपात्रे तु भुजेन्नान्नं जनेश्वर॥ नालीढया परिहतं भक्षयीत कदाचन।
English: One should never, O king, eat off the same plate with another even if he be of his own or equal rank. Nor should one ever eat any food that has been prepared by a woman in her menses.
Sanskrit: तथा नोद्धृतसाराणि प्रेक्ष्यते नाप्रदाय च॥ न संनिकृष्टे मेधावी नाशुचेर्न च सत्सु च।
English: One should never eat any food or drink any liquid whose essence has been taken off. Nor should one eat anything without giving a part thereof to persons who wistfully gaze at the food that one happens to take. The intelligent man should never sit near an impure person. Nor should one sit near persons who are foremost in virtue.
Sanskrit: प्रतिषिद्धान्नधर्मेषु भक्ष्यान् भुञ्जीत पृष्ठतः॥ पिप्पलं च वटं चैव शणशाकं तथैव च। उदुम्बरं न खादेच्च भवार्थी पुरुषोत्तमः॥ न पाणौ लवणं विद्वान् प्राश्नीयान्न च रात्रिषु।
English: All food that is forbidden in religious rites should never be taken even on other occasions. The fruits of the Ficus religiosa and the Ficus Bengalensis as also the leaves of the Crotolaria Juncea, and the fruits of the Ficus glomerata, should never be eaten by one who seeks his own good. The flesh of goats, of kine, and the peacock, should never be eaten. One should also abstain from dried flesh and all flesh that is stale. The intelligent man should never eat any salt, taking it up with his hand.
Sanskrit: दधिसक्तून् न भुञ्जीत वृथा मासं च वर्जयेत्॥ सायंप्रातश्च भुञ्जीत नान्तराले समाहितः।
English: Nor should he eat curds and flour of fried barley at night. One should abstain also from flesh of animals not killed in sacrifices. One should, with rapt attention, eat once on the morning and once in the evening, abstaining entirely from all food in the interval.
Sanskrit: वालेन तु न भुञ्जीत परश्राद्धं तथैव च॥ वाग्यतो नैकवस्त्रश्च नासंविष्टः कदाचन।
English: One should never eat any food in which he may find out a hair. Nor should one eat at the Shraddha of an enemy. One should eat silently; one should never eat without covering his body with an upper garment, and without sitting down.
Sanskrit: भूमौ सदैव नाश्नीयान्नानासीनो न शब्दवत्॥ तोयपूर्वं प्रदायान्नमतिथिभ्यो विशाम्पते। पश्चाद् भुजीत मेधावी न चाप्यन्यमना नरः॥ समानमेकपक्त्यां तु भोज्यमनं नरेश्वर। विषं हालाहलं भुङ्क्ते योऽप्रदाय सुहृज्जने॥ पानीयं पायसं सक्तून् दधिसर्पिमधून्यपि। निरस्य शेषमन्येषां न प्रदेयं तु कस्यचित्॥ भुजानो मनुजव्याघ्र चैव शङ्कां समाचरेत्।
English: One should never eat any food placing it on the naked ground. One should never eat except in a sitting posture. One should never make any noise while eating. The intelligent man should first offer water and then food to one who has become his guest, and after liaving served the guest thus, should then take his meals himself. He who sits down to dinner in a line with friends and himself eats any food without giving thereof to his friends, is said to eat dreadful poison. As regards water and Payasa and flour of fried barley and curds and clarified butter and honey, one should never, after drinking or eating these, offer the residue thereof to others. One should never, O King, eat any foot hesitatingly.
Sanskrit: दधि चाप्यनुपानं वै न कर्तव्यं भवार्थिना॥ आचम्य चैकहस्तेन परिप्लाव्यं तथोदकम्।
English: One seeking one's own good, should never drink curds finishing his meal. After the meal is finished, one should wash his mouth and face with the (right) hand only, and taking a little water should then dip the toe of the right food in it.
Sanskrit: अङ्गुष्ठं चरणस्याथ दक्षिणस्यावसेचयेत्॥ पाणिं मूर्ध्नि समाधाय स्पृष्ट्वा चाग्निं समाहितः।
English: After washing, one should touch the crown of his head with the (right) hand. With rapt attention, one should next touch fire.
Sanskrit: ज्ञातिश्रेष्ठ्यमवाप्नोति प्रयोगकुशलो नरः॥ अद्भिःप्राणान् समालभ्य नाभिं पाणितले तथा।
English: The man who knows how to observe all these ordinances carefully carefully succeeds in acquiring the foremost place among kinsmen. One should, after finishing his meals, wash his nose and eyes and ears and navel and both hands with water.
Sanskrit: स्पृशंश्चैव प्रतिष्ठेत च चाप्याट्टैण पाणिना॥ अङ्गुष्ठस्यान्तराले च ब्राह्यं तीर्थमुदाहृतम्।
English: One should not, however, keep his hands wet. Between the tip and the root of the thumb is situate the sacred Tirtha known by the name of Brahma.
Sanskrit: कनिष्ठिकायाः पश्चात् तु देवतीर्थमिहोच्यते॥ अङ्गुष्ठस्य च यन्मध्यं प्रदेशिन्याश्च भारत। तेन पित्र्याणि कुर्वीत स्पृष्ट्वापो न्यायतः सदा॥ परापवादं न ब्रूयानाप्रियं च कदाचन।
English: On the back of the little finger, it is said, is situate the Devatirtha. The intervening space between the thumb and the forefinger, Bharata, should be used for performing the Pitri rites, after touching water according to the ordinance. One should never vilify other people. Nor should one ever utter anything that is disagreeable.
Sanskrit: न मन्युः कश्चिदुत्पाद्यः पुरुषेण भवार्थिना॥ पतितैस्तु कथां नेच्छेद् दर्शनं च विवर्जयेत्।
English: The man who desires his own good, should never seek to bring on himself the wrath of others. One should never seek to talk with an outcaste. The very sight of such a personi should be shunned.
Sanskrit: संसर्ग च न गच्छेत तथाऽऽयुर्विन्दते महत्॥ न दिवा मैथुनं गच्छेन्न कन्यां न च बन्धकीम्।
English: One should never come in contact with degraded person. By avoiding such contact one succeeds in acquiring a long life. One should never indulge in sexual intercourse at day time. Nor should one know a maiden, or a harlot nor a barren woman.
Sanskrit: न चास्नातां स्त्रियं गच्छेत् तथायुर्विन्दते महत्॥ स्वे स्वे तीर्थे समाचम्य कार्ये समुपकल्पिते। त्रिः पीत्वाऽऽपो द्विः प्रमृज्य कृतशौचो भवेन्नरः।। इन्द्रियाणि सकृत्स्पृश्य त्रिरभ्युक्ष्य च मानवः।
English: One should never know a woman who has not bathed after the expiry of her menses. By avoiding such acts one succeeds in acquiring a long life. After washing the several limbs directed, in view of religious acts, one should wash his lips thrice, and once more twice. By doing this, one becomes purified and fit for religious rites. The several organs of sense should each be washed once, and water should also be sprinkled over the entire body.
Sanskrit: कुर्वीत पित्र्यं दैवं च वेददृष्टेन कर्मणा॥ ब्राह्मणार्थे च यच्छौचं तच्च मे शृणु कौरव। पवित्रं च हितं चैव भोजनाद्यंन्तयोस्तथा॥ सर्वशौचेषु ब्राह्मण तीर्थेन समुपस्पृशेत् निष्ठीव्य तु
English: Having done this, one should perforin the adoration of the departed Manes and celestials, according to the ordinances of Vedas. Listen to me, O you of Kuru's race, as I tell you what purification is cleansing and beneficial for a Brahmana. Before beginning to eat and after finishing the meal, and in all deeds requiring purification, the Brahmana should rinse his mouth with water placed on the limb called the Brahmatirtha.
Sanskrit: तथा क्षुत्त्वा स्पृश्यापो हि शुचिर्भवेत्॥ वृद्धो ज्ञातिस्तथा मित्रं दरिद्रो यो भवेदपि। गृहे वासयितव्यास्ते धन्यमायुष्यमेव च॥ गृहे पारावता धन्याः शुकाश्च सहसारिकाः।
English: After ejecting any matter from the throat or spitting, one should wash his mouth before he can become pure. A kinsman who happens to be old, or a friend who happens to be poor, should be accommodated in one's house and his comforts looked after as if he were a member of the family. By doing this, one succeeds in winning both fame and longevity. To keep pigeons as also parrots both male and female, in one's house is highly blessed.
Sanskrit: गृहेष्वेते न पापाय तथा वै तैलपायिकाः॥ उद्वीपकाश्च गृध्राश्च कपोता भ्रमरास्तथा। निवेशेयुर्यदा तत्र शान्तिमेव तदाऽऽचरेत्। अमङ्गल्यानि चैतानि तथाक्रोशो महात्मनाम्॥ महात्मनोऽतिगुह्यानि न वक्तव्यानि कर्हिचित्। अगम्याश्च न गच्छेत राज्ञः पत्नी सखीस्तथा॥
English: If these live in one's house, they succeed in removing calamity. The same is the case with cockroaches. If fireflies and vultures and woodpigeons and bees enter a house and live in it, acts of propitiating the celestials should be performed. These are creatures of evil omen, as also ospreys. One should never give out the secrets of great men; one should never have sexual union with a forbidden woman. Nor should one ever have such union with the consort of a king or with women who are the friends of qucens.
Sanskrit: वैद्यानां बालवृद्धानां भृत्यानां च युधिष्ठिर। बन्धूनां ब्राह्मपानां च तथा गारणिकस्य च॥ सम्बन्धिनां च राजेन्द्र तथाऽऽयुर्विन्दते महत्। ब्राह्मणस्थपतिभ्यां च निर्मितं यन्निवेशनम्॥ तदावसेत् सदा प्राज्ञो भवार्थी मनुजेश्वर। संध्यायां न स्वपेद् राजन् विद्यां न च समाचरेत्।।
English: One should never make friends with physicians, or with children, or with persons who are old, or with one's servants, O Yudhishthira. One should always provide for friends, for Brahmanas and for such as seek his protection. By doing this, O king, one acquires a long life. A wise man should live in such a house as has been constructed with the help of a Brahmana and an engineer skilled in his calling, if, indeed, O king, he seeks for his own behoof. One should not, O king, sleep at the evening twilight. Nor should one study at such hour for acquiring any any branch of knowledge.
Sanskrit: न भुञ्जीत च मेधावी तथायुर्विन्दते महत्। नक्तं न कुर्यात् पित्र्याणि भुक्त्वा चैव प्रसाधनम्।।११९
English: An intelligent man should never eat also at such an hour. By acting thus, one acquires a long life. One should never perform any act in honour of the departed Manes at night time. One should not adorn his body after finishing his meals.
Sanskrit: पानीयस्य क्रिया नक्तं न कार्या भूतिमिच्छता। वर्जनीयाश्चैव नित्यं सक्तवो निशि भारत॥
English: One should not bathe at night, if he seeks his own aggrandisement. One should also, O Bharata, always abstain from the flour of fried barley at night.
Sanskrit: शेषाणि चैव पानानि पानीयं चापि भोजने। सौहित्यं न च कर्तव्यं रात्रौ न च समाचरेत्॥
English: The residue of food and drink, as also the flowers with which one has adored the celestials, should never be used. Inviting a guest at night, one should never, with excessive courtesy, compel him to eat to his fill. Nor should one cat to his fill, at night.
Sanskrit: द्विजच्छेदं न कुर्वीत भुक्त्वा न च समाचरेत्। महाकुले प्रसूतां च प्रशस्ता लक्षणैस्तथा॥ वयःस्थां च महाप्राज्ञः कन्यामावोढुमर्हति। अपत्यमुत्पाद्य ततः प्रतिष्ठाप्य कुलं तथा॥ पुत्राः प्रदेया ज्ञानेषु कुलधर्मेषु भारत। कन्या चोत्पाद्य दातव्या कुलपुत्राय धीमते॥
English: One should not kill a bird (for eating it), especially after having fed it, A wise man should espouse a maiden born in a high family, gifted with auspicious marks, and of full age. Begetting children upon her and thus perpetuating his race by that means, one should make over his sons to a good preceptor for being educated generally, O Bharata, as also in the especial customs of the family, O monarch. The daughters that one may beget should be married to youths of respectable families, who are again possessed of intelligence.
Sanskrit: पुत्रा निवेश्याश्च कुलाद् भृत्या लभ्याश्च भारत। शिरःस्नातोऽथ कुर्वीत दैवं पित्र्यमथापि च॥
English: Sons should also be settled and a portion of the family inheritance given to them, O Bharata, as their provision. One should bathe by dipping his head in water before he sits down to perform any act in honour of the departed Manes or the deities.
Sanskrit: नक्षत्रे न च कुर्वीत यस्मिन् जातो भवेन्नरः। न प्रोष्ठपदयोः कार्यं तथाग्नेये च भारत॥
English: One should never perform a Shraddha under the constellation of his nativity. No Shraddha should be performed under any of the Bhadrapadas (prior or later), nor under the constellation Krittika, O Bharata.
Sanskrit: दारुणेषु च सर्वेषु प्रत्यरिं च विवर्जयेत्। ज्योतिषे यानि चोक्तानि तानि सर्वाणि वर्जयेत्।।१२७
English: The Shraddha should never be performed under any of those constellations that are considered as dreadful (such as Ashlesha, etc.,) and any of those that upon calculation, seem to be hostile. Indeed, in this matter, all these constellations should be avoided which are forbidden in astrology.
Sanskrit: प्राङ्मुख: श्मश्रुकर्माणि कारयेत् सुसमाहितः। उदङ्मुखो वा राजेन्द्र तथायुर्विन्दते महत्॥
English: One should sit facing either the east or the north while being shaved by a barber. By so doing, O great king, one succeeds in living long.
Sanskrit: परिवादं न च ब्रूयात् परेषामात्मनस्तथा। परिवादो धर्माय प्रोच्यते भरतर्षभ॥
English: One should neither 'vilify others reproach himself for, O chief of the Bharatas, it is said that calumny is sinful whether of others or of oneself.
Sanskrit: वर्जयेद् व्यंगिनीं नारी तथा कन्यां नरोत्तमा समा? व्यंगितां चैव मातुः स्वकुलजां तथा॥
English: In marrying, one should avoid a woman who is deficient of any limb. A maiden too, if such, should also be avoided. A woman of the same Pravars should also be avoided; as also one who is ill-formed in body; as also one who has been born in the race to which one's mother belongs. nor
Sanskrit: वृद्धां प्रव्रजितां चैव तथैव च पतिव्रताम्। तथा निकृष्टवर्णां च वर्णोत्कृष्टां च वर्जयेत्॥ अयोनि च वियोनि च न गच्छेत विचक्षणः।
English: A wise man should never know a woman who is old, or one who has given up the domestic mode of life for entering the forest mode, or one who is faithful to her husband or one whose organs of generation are not healthy or well-formed.
Sanskrit: पिङ्गलां कुष्ठिनीं नारी न त्वमुद्दोढुमर्हसि॥ अपस्मारिकुले जातां निहीनां चापि वर्जयेत्। श्वित्रिणां च कुले जातां क्षयिणां मनुजेश्वर॥ लक्षणैरन्विता या च प्रशस्ता या च लक्षणैः। मनोज्ञां दर्शनीयां च तां भवान् वोढुमर्हति॥ महाकुले निवेष्टव्यं सदृशे वा युधिष्ठिर।
English: You should not marry a woman who is of a yellow colour, or one who is attacked with leprosy, or onc born in a family in which there has been epilepsy, or one that is low in birth and habits, or one that is born in a family in which the disease called leprosy has appeared, or one belonging by birth to a family in which there are early deaths. Only that maiden who is gifted with auspicious indications, and who is accomplished for all sorts of qualifications, who is agrecable and beautiful, should be married. One should marry, O Yudhishthira, in a family who is higher or at least equal to his OW1l.
Sanskrit: अवरा पतिता चैव न ग्राह्या भूतिमिच्छता॥ अग्नीनुत्पाद्य यत्नेन क्रियाः सुविहिताश्च याः। वेदे च ब्राह्मणैः प्रोक्तास्ताश्च सर्वाः समाचरेत्।।१३६ न चेा स्त्रीषु कर्तव्या रक्ष्या दाराश्च सर्वशः।
English: One who is desirous of his own prosperity, should never marry a woman who is of an inferior caste or who has fallen away from the caste of her birth. Carefully lighting up the fire, one should perform all those acts which have been ordained and declared in the Vedas or by the Brahinanas. One should never seek to injure women. Wives should always be protected.
Sanskrit: अनायुष्या भवेदीर्ध्या तस्मादीलुं विवर्जयेत्॥ अनायुष्यं दिवा स्वप्नं तथाभ्युदितशायिता।
English: Malice always shortens life. Hence, one should always abstain from entertaining malice. Sleep at day time shortens life. To sleep after the sunrise shortens life.
Sanskrit: प्रगे निशामाशु तथा नैवोच्छिष्टाः स्वपन्ति वै॥ पारदार्यमनायुष्यं नापितोच्छिष्टता तथा।
English: They who sleep at any of the twilight's, or at nightfall, or who go to sleep in, a state of impurity, have their lives shortened. Adultery always shortens life. One should not remain in a state of impurity after shaving.
Sanskrit: यत्नतो वै न कर्तव्यमभ्यासश्चैव भारत॥ संध्यायां च न भुञ्जीत न स्नायेन्न तथा पठेत्। प्रयतश्च भवेत् तस्यां न च किंचित् समाचरेत्॥ ब्राह्मणान् पूजयेच्चापि तथा स्नात्वा नराधिप।
English: One should, O Bharata, carefully abstain from reading or reciting the Vedas, and eating, and bathing at eventide. When the evening twilight sets in one should collect his senses for meditation, without doing any act. One should, O king, bathe and then adore the Brahinanas.