1 1. Through a period of three nights (after the Samâvartana) he should keep (the following) observances.
2 2. He shall eat no flesh and not drink out of an earthen vessel.
3 3. He shall avoid seeing women, Sûdras, dead bodies, black birds, and dogs, and shall not talk to (such beings).
4 4. He shall not eat funeral food, or food of a
318:1 8, 1. The words of this Sûtra are repeated from Satapatha Brâhmana XIV, 1, 1, 28 (only for karati it is said here karet).
318:2 Satapatha Brâhmana l.l. § 30.
318:3 Satapatha Brâhmana l.l. § 31. Black birds, according to the commentators, mean crows.
318:4 Funeral food is such food as described below, III, 10, 26.
319:9 The Pravargya ceremony, one of the preparatory ceremonies of the Soma sacrifice (Indische Studien, X, 363), was not performed at every Soma sacrifice, but there were certain restrictions regarding its performance; see Indische Studien, IX, 219 seq.
