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The Law Code of Devala 1.22: Kṛtyakalpataru · Gṛhastharatnākara · Varṣakriyākaumudī +1

Devalasmṛti (fragments) 1.22

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Sanskrit

1.22

cikitsāṃ jyotiṣaṃ rūpaṃ śakaṭaṃ tilapīḍanam | surāṃ tulāṃ ca nājīvet putrācāryatvam eva ca || lākṣāmāñjiṣṭhamāṃsāni madhulohaviṣāṇi ca | ajīvan vṛṣalo 'py āryaḥ karmaṇā tena varjitaḥ

Having approached Devala, best of sages, / who was seated comfortably on the bank of the Indus, all the sages spoke these words:

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He should not live by medicine, astrology, acting, carting, oil-pressing, liquor, scales, or by being his son's teacher; nor by lac, madder, meat, honey, metal or poison; by such work even an Ārya becomes a Vṛṣala.

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