The householder should see that his house is every day properly rubbed with (cowdung and water). He should also observe fasts every day. Wellcleaned and wellrubbed, his house should also be every day fumigated with the smoke of clarified butter poured on his sacred fire in honour of the celestials and the departed Manes.
नित्योपलेपनं धर्मस्तथा नित्योपवासिता। सुसम्पृष्टोपलिप्ते च साज्यधूमो भवेद् गृहे॥