[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Polity, Pleasure & Law](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti) › [Law and Social-Religious Duty](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma) › [Smṛtis known from quotations](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta) › [Pracetassmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt) › 1 # Pracetassmriti 1 English (machine translation) 1 - **Language:** English ### [1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.1) Mechanics, artisans, physicians, and likewise female and male slaves, / kings and royal servants are declared to be purified immediately. ### [1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.2) A woman, a Śūdra, and indeed a Śvapāca, or \[any person\] during the birth-rite, / should perform an uncooked-grain ancestral offering (āmaśrāddha) in accordance with the rule of the Pārvaṇa rite. ### [1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.3) Mustard oil, fragrant oil, oil scented with flowers, / and oil mixed with other substances is never defiled. ### [1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.4) If the eleventh lunar day (Ekādaśī) is extended, especially in the bright or dark fortnight, / the ascetic should observe the subsequent one, while the householder should fast on the preceding one. ### [1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.5) No formal invitation, no oblation into fire, no invocation and dismissal, / no offering of rice-balls, and no \[mention of\] gods should the best of twice-born make in the daily \[ancestral rite\]. ### [1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.6) Made of cow-dung, of earthenware, broken, or made of Palāśa or Pippala wood, / bound with iron, or always made of Arka—the wise man should avoid such a seat. ### [1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.7) When a one-year-old calf is killed unintentionally, a quarter-kṛcchra penance is prescribed for a man; / but for a two-year-old it should be two quarters; / for a three-year-old it should be three quarters; beyond that, a Prājāpatya penance. ### [1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.8) Betel, anointing the body, and eating from a bell-metal vessel— / an ascetic, a religious student, and a widow should shun \[these\]. ### [1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.9) An ancestral rite for a single deceased (ekoddiṣṭa) is prescribed after the sapinḍīkaraṇa rite / for all those without sons, and likewise for those without wives. ### [1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.10) Bathing of the deceased by sons and others, and likewise worshipping with garments and the like: / one must never burn a naked body, nor abandon anything that ought to be given. ### [1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.11) When the officiating priest or the sacrificer dies, purification occurs through three nights. ### [1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.12) Worship of the gods with flowers begins from the feet and ends at the head. ### [1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.13) Those outside Mīmāṃsā, who follow external treatises, and whoever else are devoid of the Veda: / what they say, one should not do, for duty is ordained by the Veda. ### [1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.14) Whatever sprinkling a twice-born performs with \[the Vaiśvānara mantra\], / the knowers of the Veda declare all of it to be equal to the waters of the Gaṅgā. ### [1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.15) For garments that have been defiled, steaming, removal of the smell and the smear, or cutting away that portion only \[is the purification\]; / for new garments, sprinkling with water; for unwashed new garments (ahata), consecration by sprinkling. ### [1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.16) One who eats at a śrāddha, having risen in the morning, should brush his teeth; / the wise performer of the śrāddha should not brush his teeth. ### [1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.17) The rites from the eleventh day onwards should be performed in order by the eldest \[son\] according to rule; / they should not perform the śrāddha individually, but the annual rite separately. ### [1.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.18) Black lentils and sesame seeds are foremost, along with barley and winter rice; / great barley, summer barley, and likewise madhūlikā wheat. ### [1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.19) Having offered the sip of water (āpośāna), he should then recite the Sāvitrī three times, \[and the verse\] 'madhu vātāḥ…' ### [1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.20) For those who have perished through climbing trees, weapons and the like, lightning, water, poison, and so forth, / or by clawed and fanged beasts, the fourteenth lunar day is commended. ### [1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.21) Day after day one should offer full handfuls of water for the sake of the departed; / this increase should be made as long as the \[offering of the\] rice-ball is concluded. ### [1.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1.22) When \[a wife\] dies along with her husband, on the same day or the following day, / impurity (āśauca) for both of them begins from death, and not from cremation. ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti*fragments~en-mt.1.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Pracetassmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti.1.1) — Pracetas, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.pracetassmrti~en-mt.1) · Pramāṇa