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

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VISH2VU.

LXIII, 13.

13. Nor (let him travel) without cessation with
(horses or other) beasts of draught that are quite
young, diseased, or (otherwise) afflicted;
14. Nor with such as are deficient in limb ; 15.
Nor with weak ones; 16. Nor with young bulls;
17. Nor with untrained animals.
18. He must not appease his hunger and allay
his thirst without having first given grass and water
to the animals.
19. He must not stop at a place where four ways
meet; 20. Nor at night at the root of a tree;
21. Nor in an empty house; 22. Nor upon a
meadow; 23. Nor in a stable;
24. Nor (must he stand) on hair, on the husks of
grain, on potsherds, on bones, on ashes, or coal;
25. Nor on seeds of the cotton plant.
26. When he passes by a place where four ways
meet, let him turn his right side towards it.
27. And let him do the same in passing by the
image of a deity ;
28. And in passing by well-known large trees.
29. After having seen a fire, or a Brahma/za (with
his turban on), or a public prostitute, or a jar filled
(with water), or a looking-glass, or an umbrella, or a
flag, or a banner1, or a Bel tree, or a lid (or platter),
or a palace built in the shape of a certain diagram
(or in the form of a quadrangle without a western
gate)2;

29. 1 ‘ More precisely the term pataka signifies “ a staff, by
which a piece of cloth torn in the middle is fastened.”’ (Nand.) —
2 ‘ The particle A’a is added at the end of this enumeration in order
to include in it perfumes, lamps, and other objects mentioned in a
Smn’ti.’ (Nand.)