The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

made a libation in my kindled fire! I take away your
Vedic rites and those done according to the Smritis, you,
_______! You have made a libation in my kindled fire! I
take away your hopes and expectations, you, _______
He whom a brahmin who knows this rite curses, departs
from this world impotent and shorn of merit. Therefore
let no one even joke with the wife of a Vedic scholar
who knows this rite; for he who has this knowledge is a
dangerous enemy.
13
If a man‟s wife has the monthly sickness, she should for
three days drink water from a cup made of bell metal.
Let no sudra man or woman touch her. After three
nights she should bathe, put on a new cloth and her
husband should make her thresh rice.
14
If a man wishes that a son with a fair complexion
should be born to him, that he should study one Veda
and that he should attain a full term of life, then they
(husband and wife) should have rice cooked in milk
and eat it with clarified butter. Thus they should be
able to beget such a son.
15
If a man wishes that a son with a tawny or brown
complexion should be born to him, that he should study
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