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NAMBUTIRI BRAHMAN
(26) You must not sell women (receive money for girls given in marriage).
(27) You must not fast in order to obtain fulfilment of your desires.
(28) Bathing is all that a woman should observe if she touches another in her menses. (A woman touching another who is in this state should, it is said, purify herself by bathing. A man should change his thread, and undergo sacred ablution. Women, during their periods, are not required to keep aloof, as is the custom among non-Malabar Brāhmans.)
(29) Brāhmans should not spin cotton.
(30) Brāhmans should not wash cloths for themselves.
(31) Kshatriyas should avoid worshipping the lingam.
(32) Brāhmans should not accept funeral gifts from Sūdras.
(33) Perform the anniversary ceremony of your father (father's father, mother's father and both grand-mothers).
(34) Anniversary ceremonies should be performed on the day of the new moon (for the gratification of the spirits of the deceased).
(35) The death ceremony should be performed at the end of the year, counting from the day of death.
(36) The ceremony to be performed till the end of the year after death (Dīksha is apparently referred to).
(37) Srāddhas should be performed with regard to the stars (according to the astronomical, not the lunar year).
(38) The death ceremony should not be performed until after the pollution caused by childbirth has been removed.