{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe07/sbe07072.htm","path":"hin/sbe07/sbe07072.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe07/sbe07072.htm","text":"1. He must not sleep with his feet wet;\n2. Nor facing the north or the west;\n3. Nor naked; 4. Nor on wet (fresh) bamboo;\n5. Nor in the open air;\n6. Nor on a bedstead made of Pal\u00e2sa-wood;\n7. Nor on one made of the wood of five trees;\n8. Nor on one made of the wood of a tree which has been split by an elephant;\n9. Nor on a bedstead made of the wood of a tree that has been kindled by lightning;\n10. Nor on a broken bedstead;\n11. Nor on one made of scorched wood;\n12. Nor on one made of the wood of a tree that used to be watered with a jar;\n13. Nor in a burial-ground, nor in an empty house, nor in a temple;\n14. Nor with people who are restless of limb;\n15. Nor with women;\n16. Nor on grain, nor (in a stable of) cows, nor (on the couch of any of his) Gurus, nor on the fireplace, nor (in a building dedicated to the) gods.\n17. He must not sleep while the remnants of\n[LXX. 1. M. IV, 76.--2. Y. I, 136.--3. \u00c2sv. III, 9, 6; M. IV, 75; Gaut. IX, 60.--13. M. IV, 57.--17. S\u00e2nkh. IV, 11, 17; \u00c2past. I, 1, 2, 24; Gaut. II, 13.\n7. Nand. mentions three explanations of this term: 1. a bedstead made of five pieces of wood (or of the wood of five trees); 2. a bedstead made of any of the five kinds of wood enumerated in the Vishnu-pur\u00e2na; 3. a bedstead made of any of the five kinds of wood enumerated in S\u00fbtras 8-12. The second explanation is inadmissible, because part of the species of wood mentioned in the passage of the Vishnu-pur\u00e2na referred to as identical with those enumerated in S\u00fbtras 8-12.]\nfood are on his hands or face, nor in the day-time, nor in the twilight, nor upon ashes, nor in a place soiled (by excrements and the like), nor in a wet place, nor on the top of a mountain.","title":"LXX.","type":"page"}