History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c94.212.3

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138 makes an exception for ordinary men viz one should not speak what though true is painful to another (na brūyāt satyamapriyam). But one who enters on the discipline of Yoga must always speak the truth except when speaking the truth would result in the ruin of creatures²³²⁹ The Mitākṣarā on Yāj III 312 remarks that telling a falsehood in the case of arranging a marriage though excused (by smṛtis) should be avoided and also the beating of a son or a pupil as punishment by one who observes a *vrata*. A householder who approaches his wife on certain specified days after her monthly illness and avoids the parvan days (vide H. of Dh. vol. III n 1425) is to be regarded as one observing brahmacarya, acc. to Yāj I. 79 and Manu IV. 128, but if he takes to the path of Yoga, he would have to give up this latitude (vide note 2308, ²³³⁰ above) and avoid all contact whatever with all women including his own wife as the Liṅgapurāṇa emphasizes The Yuktidīpikā, one of the earliest commentaries on the Sāṅkhyakārikā, mentions (on p. 112) five yamas but puts ‘akalkaṭā’ (absence of crookedness) as the 5th instead of *aparigraha*. The Viṣṇupurāṇa (VI. 7. 36-37) enumerates five yamas and five niyamas as in Y. S. but substitutes ‘mind bent on the highest brahma’ (*kurvīta brahmaṇi tathā parasmin pravaṇaṁ manaḥ*) for ‘Īśvarapraṇidhāna’. The five niyamas according to Y S. II.