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6.10. Let him also offer the Nakshatreshti, the Agrayana, and the Katurmasya (sacrifices), as well as the
Turayana and likewise the Dakshayana, in due order.
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6.11. With pure grains, fit for ascetics, which grow in spring and in autumn, and which he himself has collected,
let him severally prepare the sacrificial cakes (purodasa) and the boiled messes (karu), as the law directs.
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6.12. Having offered those most pure sacrificial viands, consisting of the produce of the forest, he may use the
remainder for himself, (mixed with) salt prepared by himself.
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6.13. Let him eat vegetables that grow on dry land or in water, flowers, roots, and fruits, the productions of pure
trees, and oils extracted from forest-fruits.
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6.14. Let him avoid honey, flesh, and mushrooms growing on the ground (or elsewhere, the vegetables called)
Bhustrina, and Sigruka, and the Sleshmantaka fruit.
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6.15. Let him throw away in the month of Asvina the food of ascetics, which he formerly collected, likewise his
worn-out clothes and his vegetables, roots, and fruit.
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6.16. Let him not eat anything (grown on) ploughed (land), though it may have been thrown away by
somebody, nor roots and fruit grown in a village, though (he may be) tormented (by hunger).
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6.17. He may eat either what has been cooked with fire, or what has been ripened by time; he either may use a
stone for grinding, or his teeth may be his mortar.
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6.18. He may either at once (after his daily meal) cleanse (his vessel for collecting food), or lay up a store
sufficient for a month, or gather what suffices for six months or for a year.
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6.19. Having collected food according to his ability, he may either eat at night (only), or in the day-time (only),
or at every fourth meal-time, or at every eighth.
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