Food was prepared for them and left beside their doors. People believed that food prepared in faith should be given to them.

With colorful clothes, lodgings and houses, prosperous nations and countries honored those brahmins.

Brahmins used to be inviolable and invincible, protected by principle. No one ever turned them away from the doors of families.

For forty-eight years they led the spiritual life. The brahmins of old pursued their quest for knowledge and conduct.

Brahmins never transgressed with another, nor did they purchase a wife. They lived together in love, joining together by mutual consent.

Brahmins never approached their wives for sex during the time outside the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle after menstruation.

They praised chastity and morality, integrity, tenderness, and fervor, gentleness and harmlessness, and also patience.

He who was supreme among them, godlike, staunchly vigorous, did not engage in sex even in a dream.

Training in line with their duties, many smart people here praised chastity and morality, and also patience.

They begged for rice, bedding, clothes, ghee, and oil. Having collected them legitimately, they arranged a sacrifice.