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The Siksha-Patri of the Swami-Narayana Sect by Unknown
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otherwise he must not do so.

143. No business in regard to giving or receiving land or
property should ever be transacted even with a son or friend,
without a written deed attested by witnesses.

144. When any pecuniary transactions connected with giving away
a girl in marriage have to be transacted for one's self or
another person, the money to be delivered over should not be
settled by verbal agreement, but only by a written contract
attested by witnesses.

145. A man's expenditure ought always to be in proportion to his
income. Otherwise it is certain that great misery will arise.

146. Every day one should take note of one's income and
expenditure in the regular business of life, and write them down
with one's own hand.

147. My followers should assign a tithe of the grain, money,
etc., acquired by their own occupation or exertions, to
K.rish.na, and the poor should give a twentieth part.

148. The due performance of fasts, of which the eleventh-day
fasts are the principal, should be effected according to the
Sastras and one's ability; for this will lead to the attainment
of desired objects.

149. Every year in the month Srava.na one should perform, or
cause others to perform, cheerfully the worship of Siva with the
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