But a twice-born man, who keeps a less provision of grain, yet presumes to taste the juice of the moon plant, shall gather no fruit from that sacrament, even though he taste it at the first or solemn, or much less at any occasional ceremony." MENU, iii.197.

All the ancestors of the Brahmins are 'Soma-pas, moon-plant drinkers.'] [Footnote 79: p.36.l.15.

_--fire adoring_.

Watching or maintaining the sacred fire is another duty: it peculiarly belongs to priests and hermits.

The latter may watch the fire mentally: "Then having reposited his holy fires, as the law directs, in his mind, let him live without external fire, without a mansion, wholly silent, feeding on roots and fruit." MENU, vi.