Purificatory Acts for Other Sins

Suta said:

1. O brahmana, listen, I shall tell you, how those who, through ignorance, have eaten feces (or drunk) urine or have sipped liquor, are purified.

2-4a. O sage, he should observe two Prajapatya (-vows); he should go to a holy place. He should give a bull and eleven cows, and then should get himself clean-shaved with the tuft of hair on the crown of the head (removed). Having gone to all crossways he should observe the Prajapatya (-vow). Then he should give a pair of cows and drink the mixture of the five products of a cow. There is no doubt that he is purified after having fed brahmanas.

4b-8. If aman eats the food of a candala or drinks his water knowingly or while in a difficulty, he should observe Krcchra Candrayana; (and) having got himself clean-shaved with the tuft of hair on the crown of the head (removed), he should drink the mixture of the five products of a cow. One or two or three or four cows should be respectively given to brahmanas if he eats the food of a candala or of (i.e. prepared by) a woman recently delivered or food which is not fit to be eaten or water which should not be drunk. If knowingly or while in difficulty he eats the food left over by a shudra, he should observe two Prajapatyavows and three Candrayana-vows. O brahmana, then he should give a couple of cows and drink the mixture of the five products of a cow. Then, after offering oblations into fire and having fed many brahmanas, he would certainly be purified.

9. There is no doubt that if (a portion of) the food is eaten by rats, mongooses or cats it is purified, when it is sprinkled over with water mixed with Sheshamum and darbhas, O brahmana.

10-11. O brahmana, a man who eats an onion, garlic, a potherb, bottle-gourd, a small red variety of garlic and meat, should observe the Candrayana-vow. Due to his doing vile acts a shudra loves liquor and meat. One should avoid from (i.e. keep at) a distance such a shudra like a candala.

12. Those who are engaged in serving the twice-born who avoid liquor and meat, who are engaged in giving gifts and in their own duties, should be known to be best vrsalas.

13-17a. O brahmana, if a brahmana unknowingly eats (food) in a family where impurity is caused by child-birth or by death, he would be purified by reciting the Gayatri(-hymn) ten thousand times. O ascetic, a ksatriya would be purified by reciting it thousands of times, and a candala by (taking) the mixtures of the five products of a cow. A man of a (higher) caste, who, even unknowingly, would drink ghee, or water of curd contained in a vessel of a low-caste man, should observe the Prajapatya vow. He should give many gifts. By offering oblations into the fire according to the proper rite he is purified. For a shudra there is no fast. He is purified just by giving gifts. Observing a fast day and night he should get himself clean-shaved with the tuft of hair on the crown of the head (removed).

17b-19a. O brahmana, a man who is beaten by the low-caste ones with sticks etc. should observe (either) the Prajapatya-vow or the Candrayana-vow. He should get himself clean-shaved with the tuft of hair on the crown of the head (removed) and should drink the mixture of the five products of a cow. Then he should give a couple of cows and offer oblations of food etc. into fire.

19b-23. O brahmana, if a man takes liquor knowingly or casually in his house, he should be dropped from (i.e. driven out of) the family. A man who destroys cow's seed or cuts off shoots, or steals gold, should observe Krcchra and three Prajapatya vows. Having got himself clean-shaved with the tuft of hair on the crown of his head (removed), he should also drink the mixture of the five products of a cow. In the same way he should thrice offer oblations into fire. O ascetic, food and water from him may be accepted. He should eat in the morning for three days without begging. For three days he should not eat. This is the Prajapatya -vow.

24-29. O sage, he should drink cow's urine, cow-dung, (cow's) milk, curd, ghee and water mixed with Kusha for two days and should observe fast for a night. This is said to be Krcchra Santapana which removes all sins. He should eat one morsel for three days in the morning and in the evening without begging and should fast for three days. This vow is (called) Atikrcchra. O brahmana, he should drink hot water, milk and ghee for three days. O sage, he should bathe once (a day). This is said to be Tapta-Krcchra. Not taking food for twelve days is known as Paraka Krcchra, which removes sin and is well-known. He should increase one morsel everyday in the bright half and reduce one morsel everyday during the dark half. He should not eat when the moon has waned (i.e. on the new-moon day). This is known as the Candrayana -vow. A brahmana should eat four morsels in the morning, four when the sun has set (i.e. in the evening). This is known as Sisu-Candrayana.

30. A woman who destroys a pumpkin gourd, should drink the mixture of the five products of a cow for three days and should give five pumpkin gourds along with gold and garments (to a brahmana). (Then) O ascetic, water and food of (i.e. offered by) her may be accepted.

 

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