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1 ¹ . If (a strong) wind is blowing, and on the new-moon day there is an entire interruption of study.

2. If one has partaken of a Śrāddha dinner, if a meteor falls, or distant thundering is heard, or if the earth quakes, or if fiery apparitions are seen, and when a new season begins, (the study shall be interrupted) until the same time next day.

3 ² . If the Utsarga ceremony has been performed, if clouds appear, . . . ., (it shall be interrupted) through a period of three nights or till twilight has thrice passed.

4 ³ . After he has eaten, until he has (washed and) dried his hands; while being in water; at nighttime; at the time of the morning and evening twilight; while a dead body or a Caṇḍāla is in the village.

5. While running, while seeing a person of bad fame or who has lost his caste, if a miraculous or happy event happens, as long as (that which occasions the interruption of study) endures.

6. If hoar-frost (lies on the ground), if a musical instrument is heard, or the cry of a person in pain, at the border of the village, in a burial ground, or if a dog, an ass, an owl, a jackal, or a Sāman song is heard, or if a learned person approaches, as long as (that occasion) endures.

7. If his Guru has died, let him go down into water (for offering water-oblations) and interrupt (the study) for ten nights.

8 ⁴ . If one who has performed with him the Tānūnaptra ceremony, or a fellow-pupil (has died), for three nights.

9. If one who is not his fellow-pupil, (has died,) for one night.

10. After having studied five months and a half, they should celebrate the Utsarga,

11. Or six months and a half.

12 ⁵ . They then mutter this Ṛc: ‘Ye two young sages! The relation which has expired among us, the friendship we dissolve, (turning away) from the condition of friendship.’

13. After having remained together through a period of three nights, they separate.