History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s7.6.4

v1.c6.s7.6.4

in case of doubt listen guest's caste and character; how to proceed; who is an *atithi*; praise of honouring an *atithi*; procedure for honouring guests comes to a king or to one who has consecrated fires or when one comes on a car, a bullock or a cart, sacred fires should be honoured; the seven or nine dogs and five killers of men should be removed; what food is to be cooked, with what kind of cooking vessel it is to be done; whether a householder may subject himself, wife and children to privations (*kṣut pratīkāraḥ*); amount of food to be taken by *brahmacārin*, householder, hermit &c.; occasions for begging are the teacher, marriage, sacrifice, maintenance of parents and avoidance of the cessation of some worthy obervance (like *agnihotra*); the peculiar *karmans* of Brāhmaṇas and the other castes; rules of war; the king to appoint a *purohita* skilled in *dharma* and art of government, who is to carry out punishments and penances; punishments including death sentence according to the gravity of the offences, but a Brāhmaṇa was not to be killed or injured or to be made a slave; rule of the road; a man of the lower caste by practising his duties rises higher and higher when re-born and a man of the higher castes goes lower by *adharma*; one should not marry another wife, when the first has children and is helpful in the performance of *dharma*; rules about marriageable girl, i. e. she must not be *sagotra* and *sapiṇḍa* of the mother;