Indeed, one should bathe before adoring the celestials and reverentially saluting the preceptor. One should never go to a sacrifice unless invited. Indeed, one may go there without an invitation, if he wishes to only see how the sacrifice is conducted. If one goes to a sacrifice without an invitation and if one does not on that account, receive proper adoration from the sacrificer, his life becomes shortened. One should never go alone on a journey to foreign parts. Nor should one ever go alone to any place at night.
देवांश्च प्रणमेत् स्नातो गुरुश्चाप्यभिवादयेत्॥ अनिमन्त्रितो न गच्छेत यज्ञं गच्छेत दर्शकः। अनर्चिते ह्यनायुष्यं गमनं तत्र भारत॥ न चैकेन परिव्रज्यं न गन्तव्यं तथा निशि।