"The Pramathas said, 'Men are rendered unclean by acts of sexual congress.

They who do not purify themselves after such acts, they who insult their superiors, they who from stupefaction eat different kinds of meat, the man also who sleeps at the foot of a tree, he who keeps any animal matter under his pillow while lying down for sleep, and he who lies down or sleeps placing the head where his feet should be placed or his feet where the head should be placed, these men are regarded by us as unclean. !erily, these men have many holes. Those also are numbered in the same class who throw their phlegm and other unclean secretions into the water. "ithout doubt these men deserve to be slain and eaten up by us. !erily, we afflict those human beings who are given to such conduct. #isten now to what those acts are which are regarded as antidotes and in conse$uence of which we fail to do any in%ury to men. Those men upon whose persons occur streaks of &orochana, or who hold !achas in their hands, or who make gifts of ghee with those ingredients that go by the name of 'kshata, or who place ghee and 'kshata on their heads, or those who abstain from meat are incapable of being afflicted by us. That man in whose house the sacred fire burns day and night without being ever put out, or who keeps the skin or teeth of a wolf in his abode or a hill tortoise, or from whose habitation the sacrificial smoke is seen to curl upwards, or who keeps a cat or a goat that is either tawny or black in hue, is free from our power. !erily, those householders who keep p. ()* these things in their houses always find them free from the inroads of even the fiercest spirits that live on carrion. Those beings also, that like us range through different worlds in pursuit of pleasure, are unable to do any in%ury to such houses. +ence, ye deities, should men keep such articles in their houses, articles that are destructive of ,akshasas -and other beings of the kind.. "e have thus told you everything about that respecting which ye had great doubts.'"