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Rh :(26) You must not sell women (receive money for girls given in marriage).
 * (27) You must not fast in order to obtain fulfilment of your desires.


 * (28) Bathing is all that a woman should observe if she touches another in her menses. (A woman touching another who is in this state should, it is said, purify herself by bathing. A man should change his thread, and undergo sacred ablution. Women, during their periods, are not required to keep aloof, as is the custom among non-Malabar Brāhmans.)


 * (29) Brāhmans should not spin cotton.


 * (30) Brāhmans should not wash cloths for themselves.


 * (31) Kshatriyas should avoid worshipping the lingam.


 * (32) Brāhmans should not accept funeral gifts from Sūdras.


 * (33) Perform the anniversary ceremony of your father (father's father, mother's father and both grand-mothers).


 * (34) Anniversary ceremonies should be performed on the day of the new moon (for the gratification of the spirits of the deceased).


 * (35) The death ceremony should be performed at the end of the year, counting from the day of death.


 * (36) The ceremony to be performed till the end of the year after death (Dīksha is apparently referred to).


 * (37) Srāddhas should be performed with regard to the stars (according to the astronomical, not the lunar year).


 * (38) The death ceremony should not be performed until after the pollution caused by childbirth has been removed.