aśva-medham - a sacrifice offering a horse; gava-ālambham - a sacrifice of cows; sannyāsam - the renounced order of life; pala-paitṛkam - an offering of oblations of flesh to the forefathers; devareṇa - by a husband's brother; suta-utpattim - begetting children; kalau - in the Age of Kali; pañca - five; vivarjayet - one must give up.

“ ‘In this Age of Kali, five acts are forbidden: the offering of a horse in sacrifice, the offering of a cow in sacrifice, the acceptance of the order of sannyāsa, the offering of oblations of flesh to the forefathers, and a man’s begetting children in his brother’s wife.’