Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.87

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² Or as the commentator says: the vow of fasting, which consists in his eating only in the morning for three days, then for three days only in the evening, for three days more eating what he has got without asking, and the three last days nothing at all. Cp. Manu, xi, 212, and the parallels therewith.