The Gods take the offerings with their heads, the manes (dead ancestors) with their mouths, the yakshas with their waists, and those that have narrow lower lips and other similar creatures with the lower parts of their bodies. The water left on the left side is like blood, and that on the right side is holy like the water of the Ganges. The washing of the hair is a useless bath if drops of water continue to fall later. get gida qed iega: wee att fastest art nogan fat ahem aa a amen wen afa y- ary maaa auaa gaa RA oe H After taking food, and after urination, excretion and falling of sperm, one should gurgle water one hundred and eight times to wash his mouth, In the solar months of Mithuna, Karkataka, and Simha alli the rivers are in their menstrual courses. Hence it is not proper to bathe in these rivers during these months (roughly from the fifteenth of June to the sixteenth of September every year). But if one has such a bath, he should get purified by a bath at the confluence of the river and the sea.