Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

One should not disregard one’s wife. Nor should one confide too rtiUch in her.f One should not acquaint one’s wife with one’s secrets. One should not allow One’s wife to intCrefere in all one’s affairs. One should not have sexual congress with a woman while she has menstruated; or with one who is ill, or with one who is afflict¬ ed with leprosy and other diseases of the kind, or with one that is of disagreeable features or disagreeable conduct, orwith one that has no cleverness, of with one that does not feciprocate one’s desire, or with one that loves another, or with one that belongs to a different caste or order.J One should not have sexual congress against the order of nature. One should not have sexual congress undef the shade of a chaitya tfee, or on a ground intended for a Sacrifice, or on a spot where fouf roads meet, or in a grove, or in a crematorium, or on a sacrificial altaf, or in a tank, lake, or other water, Or in a spot where sacred or medicinal plants and herbs grow, of in the house of a regenerate person, or in that of one’s preceptor, or in that of

* ‘ Dwija ’ means tooth, because it gtows twice. ‘ Anrijuh ’ is, as pointed out by the Commentator, connected with all the three acts of sneezing, eating, and lying down for sleep.— T.

f The Commentator explains ‘ nativijrambhayet * as ‘ hStipianayaVatim kuryyat’ i. r. , one should not show too much love for her. — T.

t The Commentator points out that ‘ abhigachcchet ’ should be supplied after ' anya-yonim.’ ‘ Anya-yonim’ is 1 asavarnam.’ — T.

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CHA RA K A-S AM HI TA.

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a deity. One should not have sexual congress at dawn or in the evening, or on such days of the Moon as have been declared (in the scriptures) to be unfit for such acts, or when one is impure, or when one has not taken a provocative tonic or other medicine, or when one is anxious in consequence of one’s not having accom¬ plished what is in one’s heart, or when one’s heart is not cheerful, or when one is hungry (for not having taken any food), or when one has overloaded one’s stomach, or when one has not a level bed to lie upon, or when one is afflicted by the urgings of urine or faeces, or when one is spent by toil, exercise, fast, and exhaustion. One should not, again, indulge in such congress except in privacy.20

One should not dispraise one’s seniors, or those that are good. One should not, while impure, perform any Vedie act, or worship a sacred tree or any adorable deity, or engage oneself in study. When lightnings appear out of season, when the horizon all around becomes red as if ablaze with fire,# when a conflagra¬ tion takes place, when an earthquake happens, when a great festival is going on, when meteors fall down, when the great planets eclipse each other, when the Moon is on the fourth luna¬ tion on either half of the month of Bhadra, in the two twilights, with¬ out the help of a living preceptor, without guarding against even a single letter falling off, exceeding the proper measure, with a languid voice, with a disagreeable voice, without clearly pro¬ nouncing all the words, without avoiding excessive haste, without at the same time avoiding excessive slowness, without abstain¬ ing from pronouncing the words with excessive slowness, without avoiding excessive loudness, and without avoiding a voice that is inaudible, one should not study (the scriptures). While studying, one should not mingle with fellow students,' nor should one break the rules one has formed (in respect of study.)21

One should not rove in the night, especially in an unknown land. In the two twilights one should avoid eating, study, sexual congress,

* When lightnings appear seasonably, i. e., in their proper season, the phenomena are not regarded as preternatural. Only when they appear unseasonably, Brahman students cease to study their lessons. The phenomenon of unseasonable thunder-roll also is regarded in the same light. By ‘ digdaha ’ is meant the preternatural redness of the horizon. This is regarded as a very inauspicious omen. — T.

CHA RA KA -SAM HI TA.

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