[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v2.c34.44 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c34.44 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c34.44 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c34.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c34.44) In some works it is said that if on getting up a man sees a brāhmaṇa learned in the Veda, a lady whose husband is living, a cow, an altar where fire is kindled, he becomes free from adversities and that if a man sees on getting up in the morning a very sinful man, a widow, an untouchable, one naked, one whose nose is cut off, that is an indication of \*kali\* (misfortune or strife).¹⁵²⁶ Parāśara XII. 47 says that one who has built the fire altar (for Vedic sacrifices), a dark-brown cow, one who is engaged in a \*sattra\* (or performed it), the king, an ascetic, the ocean—these purify a man the moment they are seen, so one should see them always. - [Previous: v2.c34.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c34.43) - [Next: v2.c34.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c34.45) - [Up: v2.c34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c34) ## Cites (1) - [Parāśarasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.parasara.12.47) — Parāśara, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c34.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c34.44) · Pramāṇa