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16. (While reciting his prayers) he shall stand in the day-time and sit down at night.

1. (A student who desires to become) a house- holder shall bathe, free from anger and elation, with the permission of his teacher, and take for a wife a young female of his own caste, who does neither belong to the same Gotra nor has the same Pravara, who has not had intercourse (with another man),

2. Who is not related within four degrees on the mother's side, nor within six degrees on the father s side.

16. Vishmi XXVIII, 2-3. The prayers intended are the so- called Sandhyas, which are recited at daybreak and in the evening.