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to entertain other devotees who visited
ate only one meal a day.
The use of in-
liquors was strictly forbidden, though this
to the poor,
them.
and
They
toxicating
deprivation troubled them but little. Accustomed from
infancy to look on such beverages with horror, they re-
garded drunkenness as the most degrading of vices.
By the desire of women the Vanaprasthas understood all
the sensual pleasures which are not rendered lawful by the
and even in the exercise of the
sacred bonds of marriage
priv