1. After having performed the Upākarma for studying the Veda on the full moon of the month' Srāvaṇa (July-August), he shall for one month not study in the evening. 2. On the full moon of the month of Pauṣa (December-January), or under the constellation Rohini, he shall leave off reading the Veda. 3. Some declare, (that he shall study) for four months and a half. 4. He shall avoid to Study the Veda on a high-road. 5. Or he may study it (on a high-road), after having smeared (a space) with cowdung. 6. He shall never study in a burial-ground nor anywhere near it within the throw of a Samyā. 7. If a village has been built over (a burial ground) or its surface has been cultivated as a field, the recitation of the Veda (in such a place) is not prohibited. 8. But if that place is known to have been a burial-ground he shall not study (there). 9. A Śūdra and an outcast are (included by the term) burial-ground, (and the rule given, Sūtra 6, applies to them). 10. Some declare, that (one ought to avoid only, to study) in the same house (where they dwell). 11. But if (a student and) a Śūdra woman merely look at each other, the recitation of the Veda must be interrupted, 12. Likewise, if (a student and) a woman, who has had connexion with a man of a lower caste, (look at each other). 13. If he, who is about to study the Veda, wishes to talk to a woman during her courses, he shall first speak to a Brāhmaṇa and then to her, then again speak to a Brāhmaṇa, and afterwards study. Thereby the children (of that woman) will be blessed. 14. (He shall not study in a village) in which a corpse lies; 15. Nor in such a one where Kāndālas live. 16. He shall not study whilst corpses are being carried to the boundary of the village, 17. Nor in a forest, if (a corpse or Cāṇḍāla) is within sight. 18. And if outcasts have entered the village, he shall not study on that day,