Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

10.90. But he who subsists by agriculture, may at pleasure sell unmixed sesamum grains for sacred purposes,
provided he himself has grown them and has not kept them long.
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10.91. If he applies sesamum to any other purpose but food, anointing, and charitable gifts, he will be born
(again) as a worm and, together with his ancestors, be plunged into the ordure of dogs.
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10.92. By (selling) flesh, salt, and lac a Brahmana at once becomes an outcast; by selling milk he becomes
(equal to) a Sudra in three days.
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10.93. But by willingly selling in this world other (forbidden) commodities, a Brahmana assumes after seven
nights the character of a Vaisya.
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10.94. Condiments may be bartered for condiments, but by no means salt for (other) condiments; cooked food
(may be exchanged) for (other kinds of) cooked food, and sesamum seeds for grain in equal quantities.
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10.95. A Kshatriya who has fallen into distress, may subsist by all these (means); but he must never arrogantly
adopt the mode of life (prescribed for his) betters.
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10.96. A man of low caste who through covetousness lives by the occupations of a higher one, the king shall
deprive of his property and banish.
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10.97. It is better (to discharge) one’s own (appointed) duty incompletely than to perform completely that of
another; for he who lives according to the law of another (caste) is instantly excluded from his own.
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10.98. A Vaisya who is unable to subsist by his own duties, may even maintain himself by a Sudra’s mode of
life, avoiding (however) acts forbidden (to him), and he should give it up, when he is able (to do so).
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10.99. But a Sudra, being unable to find service with the twice-born and threatened with the loss of his sons and
wife (through hunger), may maintain himself by handicrafts.
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10.100. (Let him follow) those mechanical occupations and those various practical arts by following which the
twice-born are (best) served.