ABSTRACT
The Kshatriya reads the Veda and learns it, but does not teach it. He offers to the fire and acts according to the rules of the Purâṇas. In places where, as we have mentioned (v. p. 135), a tablecloth is prepared for eating, he makes it angular. He rules the people and defends them, for he is created for this task. He girds himself with a single cord of the threefold yajnopavîta, and a single other cord of cotton. This takes place after he has finished the twelfth year of his life.
Duties of the single castes.
