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6. Eat with relish, but do not do so before you
have served your elders, guests, or a recluse. Do
not eat anything that you have not served to the
others.
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7. Occupy a seat that gives dignity. Do not take
the seat of the elders, or occupy a higher seat
in their presence. Allow them to be seated
before you take your place.
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8. Do not go to sleep before the elders of the house
and your husband have retired. Ensure that
your duties to them for the days are done.
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9. Let the fire be lit and perform
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daily.
The fire should be the centre of the family circle.
If the central cog is good, the spokes around it
would keep firm. The tradition of the
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hotra
ennobles the family.
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10. All the senior members of the family are worthy
of being honoured.
Daughter, even the village songs sing in praise
of the daughter-in-law. From these songs all
daughters-in-law could take advice. In one of
the couplets a father-in-law asked his daughter-
in-law what sort of fasts and vigils she had per-
formed that she had been blessed with such a
lovely son. The daughter-in-law replied that
she did not disobey her mother-in-law; she had
not ignored her sister-in-law; nor had she