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Guna and Dosha
In order to regulate actions I enjoin merits and defects regarding things in respect of place, time and other conditions.
Those lands where there is no black deer and where devotion to Brahmanas is absent are impure. Even if they are full of deer, the tracts known as Kikata and those that are barren should be considered as impure unless there be righteous people in them.
That time is good when it is fittest for performing Vedic duties, either by its own nature or by the proper supply of the required articles, whereas that Time is considered bad or unfit when the Vedic observances cannot be attended to for lack of things and other circumstances.
Certain things become pure or impure when they are in contact with certain other things, by purificatory ceremony, by time, by quality or volume, great or small; certain things do or do not defile any one according as he is or he is not physically able to abide by the rule, as he knows or not, is rich or poor, or as he is affected by them with reference to place, state and other circumstances. [Rain water that is collected in a tank is regarded pure after ten days. Food becomes impure if it is kept for some hours. A pot of water is easily rendered impure but not so the water of a tank. If a man knows of the birth of his son within ten days, he is under pollution.]
The purifying process of grain, wood, bone (like ivory), textiles, threads, liquids, household utensils,skins,earthen things,oil,ghee,gold,skins and metallic wares is done as the case may beby time, air, fire, earth and water either singly or in combination.
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