460. The prayers said in the morning and the evening are also spoken of as adoring the two twilights.
461. 'One should always observe the vow of Brahmacharya' means that one should abstain from sexual congress except with one's wedded wives and in the proper season.
462. The Bombay text reads the second line differently. What is meant, is that the wounds inflicted by wordy shafts rankle and fester and lead to death.
463. Samyava is a thin cake of unleavened bread, fried with ghee, pounded and again made up into an oblong form with fresh bread, sugar and spices, and again fried with ghee. Krisara is a kind of liquid food made of milk, sesame, rice, sugar, and spices. Sashkuli is a kind of pie. Payasa is rice boiled in sugar and milk.
464. Antarddhane implies 'in darkness'; hence one should always examine the bed with a light before one lies down on it.
465. Pranan, the commentator explains, implies the upper holes of the body, such as the nostrils, the ear-holes and the eyes.
466. The Brahmana is more powerful than the other two, for while the other two cannot injure except when they have their foe within sight, the Brahmana can do so even by not seeing his enemy.
467. The custom in India, with especially all orthodox Brahmanas, is to wear a single flower on the head, inserted into the coronal lock. This flower may be a red one, it is said, after the prohibition in the previous verse about the wearing of garlands made of red flowers.
468. What is stated here is that dry perfumes should not be used, but those which are pounded with water and made into a paste.
469. The cloth worn by a Hindu has two lateral fringes which contain a lesser number of threads than the body of the cloth.