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any one of the first orders to the last at once;* he is then to take up his 

 staff and water pot, to derive from begging such a portion of food as is 

 sufficient for his mere sustenance, and to devote the remainder of his day 

 to holy study and pious meditation. j" 



Adopting, as a general guide, the rules of original works, the DanUi is 

 distinguished by carrying a small Darul, or wand, with several processes 

 or projections from it, and a piece of cloth dyed with red ochre, in which 

 the Brahmanical cord is supposed to be enshrined, attached to it: he 

 shaves his hair and beard, wears only a cloth round his loins, and subsists 

 upon food obtained ready-dressed from the houses of the Brahmanas 



* So Menu, as expounded by Kulluka Bhatta, 6, 38. 



" Having performed the sacrifice of Prajdpati, Sfc. a Braliman may proceed from his house, 

 that is, from the second order, or he may proceed even from the first to the condition of a Sanydsu' 

 Indeed the intermediate stage of the Vanaprastha is amongst the prohibited acts in the Kuli 



ace. 



f Agreeably to the high authority already quoted, 6, 41, &c; 



" Departing from his house, taking with him pure implements, his water-pot, and staff, keeping 

 silence, unallured by desire of objects near him, let him enter into the fourth order." 



" Let him have no culinary fire, no domicile, let him when very hungry, go to the town for 

 food, let him patiently bear disease, let him study to know God, and fix his attention on God alone. 



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