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4.179. With an officiating or a domestic priest, with a teacher, with a maternal uncle, a guest and a dependant,
with infants, aged and sick men, with learned men, with his paternal relatives, connexions by marriage and
maternal relatives,
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4.180. With his father and his mother, with female relatives, with a brother, with his son and his wife, with his
daughter and with his slaves, let him not have quarrels.
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4.181. If he avoids quarrels with these persons, he will be freed from all sins, and by suppressing (all) such
(quarrels) a householder conquers all the following worlds.
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4.182. The teacher is the lord of the world of Brahman, the father has power over the world of the Lord of
created beings (Pragapati), a guest rules over the world of Indra, and the priests over the world of the gods.
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4.183. The female relatives (have power) over the world of the Apsarases, the maternal relatives over that of the
Visve Devas, the connexions by marriage over that of the waters, the mother and the maternal uncle over the
earth.
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4.184. Infants, aged, poor and sick men must be considered as rulers of the middle sphere, the eldest brother as
equal to one’s father, one’s wife and one’s son as one’s own body,
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4.185. One’s slaves as one’s shadow, one’s daughter as the highest object of tenderness; hence if one is offended
by (any one of) these, one must bear it without resentment.
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4.186. Though (by his learning and sanctity) he may be entitled to accept presents, let him not attach himself
(too much) to that (habit); for through his accepting (many) presents the divine light in him is soon
extinguished.
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4.187. Without a full knowledge of the rules, prescribed by the sacred law for the acceptance of presents, a wise
man should not take anything, even though he may pine with hunger.
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4.188. But an ignorant (man) who accepts gold, land, a horse, a cow, food, a dress, sesamum-grains, (or)
clarified butter, is reduced to ashes like (a piece of) wood.