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Ch. VII – Dūṣaṇabhūṣaṇāni 183 72. (If in the same place) one sits on a broken seat, or eats food sitting on a small couch, where small amount of food as well as drinks are treated like an oblation (it brings no good). 73. If one deviates from the proper method of cooking (Paṅktibheda), then the cooking becomes waste and wrongly cooked food is al- ways the cause of difference of opinions (it brings no good). 74. In the evening the wife should sprinkle water where the thorny trees grow, in ant hills where the creepers are without leaves. 75. A pestle, wooden mortar and the seats for ladies will be made out of the fig tree. The pollution of chanting of the Śastras is same as the spoiling of cooked rice. 76. It is harmful if one puts fire under the lid of a utensil, or under the ladle, or if one speaks out loudly at night and the fire burns at a very low flame. 77. (It is equally harmful) if one endears one's son, wife or husband in the same way as showing obeisance to one's father and where the grains are scattered to feed the cows or rats. 78- 79. Also, if the milk which is desired for sacrifice is kept uncovered, and the clarified butter is touched by impure hands, and if in front of the children, who are watching eagerly, the elder persons eat edibles ( it is despisable). Like the male persons who sleep in the evening before nightfall, those meat eaters who cook rice for their own interest are also despisable. 80, 81. Residents of Āśramas and those who belong to different faiths are jealous of each other. They are greedy of the wealth of others and consume articles from the shop. When a disciple is disobedient to his Guru, and when the disciple is like a friend to his Guru, and when the wife wants punishment for her husband in front of his Guru (this situation is not acceptable). 82. Ungrateful (persons), heretics, sinners, those who transgress the law, wretchedly drunk, those who eat inedible foods and where the people do not follow any custom (the situation is not desir- able).