Apastambasmriti 2.1

2.1

atha śuddhyaśuddhivivekavarṇanam
kāruhastagataṃ puṇyaṃ yacca grāmādviniḥsmṛtam
strībālavṛddhācaritaṃ pratyakṣādṛṣṭameva ca

Now begins the description of the discrimination between purity and impurity:
What is in the hand of an artisan is pure, and what has come out of a village;
what is practiced by women, children, and the aged; and that which is not directly seen [to be impure].