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8. ' Offerings to the gods and to the manes must always be given to a 6rotriya alone. For gifts

Anr/k, « who does not know the Veda,' means, literally, ' unac- quainted with the 7?zg-veda.'

5. This verse, which is identical with Manu XII, 114, and the next two are intended to show that a Brahmawa who neglects the study of the Veda, is unfit to decide points of the sacred law, which are not settled either by the Smrzti or the 6"ruti, and become a member of a parishad or ' Pani.'

6. The verse contains a better version of Manu XII, 115.

7. Regarding the term Vedaparaga, see Gautama V, 20, note. Itaresham, 'fools/ means literally, 'different from (those who have mastered the Vedas).'

bestowed on a man unacquainted with the Veda, reach neither the ancestors nor the gods/