Agnipurana 152
English (machine translation) 152
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152.1
Puṣkara said: / A brāhmaṇa unable to make a living by his own prescribed duty / may live by the duty of a kṣatriya, vaiśya, or śūdra, but never from a śūdra's birth.
152.2
A twice-born may engage in agriculture, trade, cattle-rearing, and usury; / he must avoid milk products, molasses, salt, lac, and meat.
152.2.p1
[Footnote]
152.2.p2
1. "And prosperous living may be there" is stated in ga, gha, ṅa, and ña.
152.3
Having tilled the earth, cut down plants, and immolated worms and ants, / farmers indeed purify themselves through sacrifice by worshipping the gods.
152.4
A plow with eight oxen is righteous; with six oxen, for those seeking a livelihood; / with four oxen, for the cruel; with two oxen, for the slayers of dharma.
152.5
He may live by the gleaning or the ungleaned, by what is dead or what is cultivated, / or even by truth and falsehood, but never by dog-like service.
152.5.p1
Thus ends the one hundred fifty-second chapter in the great Agni Purāṇa, entitled “Livelihoods of the Householder.”
152.5.p3
Now, the one hundred fifty-third chapter:
152.5.p4
Duties of the Stage of Celibate Studenthood.
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- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit