A Thing May Be Dreaded

Brass Is Polished By Ashes; Copper Is Cleaned By Tamarind; A Woman, By Her Menses; And A River By Its Flow.

As A Calf Follows Its Mother Among A Thousand Cows, So The (good Or Bad) Deeds Of A Man Follow Him.

One Destitute Of Wealth Is Not Destitute, He Is Indeed Rich, But The Man Devoid Of Learning Is Destitute In Every Way.

Do Not Pass Between Two Brahmanas, Between A Brahmana And His Sacrificial Fire, Between A Wife And Her Husband, A Master And His Servant, And A Plough And An Ox.

There Is No Disease So Destructive As Lust.