But the last (ascribed by some scholars to Buddhistic influence) is not permitted to interfere with animal sacrifices.
Some of the rules for the life of a householder will show in brief the moral excellence and theoretical uncertainty of Manu's law-code.

The following extracts are from the fourth, the Ten Commandments from the sixth, and the description of the hells (twenty-two in all)[31] from the fourth and twelfth books of Manu's code.

These rules may be accepted as a true reflexion of what was taught to the people by stringent Brahmanism as yet holding aloof from Hinduism.
A householder must live without giving any pain (to living creatures).
He must perform daily the ceremonies ordained in the Veda.

In this way he obtains heaven.

Let him never neglect the offerings to seers, gods, spirits (sprites), men, and Manes.