The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

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VISHWU.

XXX, 6.

and night) after a season of the year has begun x,
(and for three nights) after an eclipse of the moon.
6. (He must not study for a day and a night)
when Indra’s flag is hoisted or taken down.
7. (He must not study) when a strong wind is
going.
8. (He must not study for three days) when rain,
lightning, and thunder happen out of season h
9. (He must not study till the same hour next
day) in the case of an earthquake, of the fall of a
meteor, and when the horizon is preternaturally red,
as if on fire.
10. (He must not study) in a village in which a
corpse lies ;
11. Nor during a battle ;
12. Nor while dogs are barking, jackals yelling,
or asses braying;
13. Nor while the sound of a musical instrument
is being heard;
14. Nor while Nudras or outcasts are near ;
15. Nor in the vicinity of a temple, of a burial-
ground, of a place where four ways meet, or of a
high road;
16. Nor while immersed in water ;
1 7. Nor with his foot placed upon a bench ;
18. Nor while riding upon an elephant, a horse,
or a camel, (or in a carriage drawn by any of those
animals), or being borne in a boat, or in a carriage
drawn by oxen;
19. Nor after having vomited ;
8. 1 ‘ I. e. not during the rains.’ (Nand.)
i2. Nand. considers the term jva, ‘ dog,’ to include all the other
animals mentioned by Apastamba, I, 3, 10, 17.
19-21. After having vomited or been purged, he shall interrupt