Apastambasmriti 2
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- 2.14 — 1 part
2.1
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].
2.2
At water booths, in forests, in water, and water that has flowed out into a trough—
having drunk water in the possessions of Śvapākas or Cāṇḍālas, purification is by pañcagavya.
2.3
A continuous stream is not defiled, nor dust blown by the wind;
women, old people, and children are never defiled.
2.4
One's own bed, garment, wife, child, and water pot—
these are pure for oneself, but impure for others.
2.5
Wells and likewise reservoirs dug by others—
having bathed in these and drunk [from them], one is purified by pañcagavya.
2.6
"What is polluted by food or saliva, and impurity, and that which is anointing with feces—
all is purified by water. By what is that water purified?"
2.7
By the falling of the sun's rays, and by the touch of the wind,
and by the urine and dung of cows—by that is that water purified.
2.8
What is contaminated with bones, skins, and the like, or defiled by donkeys, horses, and camels—
one should draw out all the water; cleansing is [its] thorough cleaning.
2.9
A well defiled by urine and feces, and even by spittle,
and loathed on account of dogs, jackals, donkeys, camels, and carnivorous beasts—
2.10
having drawn out that water, one should extract seven lumps [of earth];
pañcagavya purified with clay is recorded as the cleansing of that well.
2.11
The cleansing of stepped wells, ordinary wells, and reservoirs that are defiled:
having drawn out a hundred jars [of water], one should then throw in pañcagavya.
2.12
"And if a Brahmin should drink water from a well defiled by a corpse,
how would purification take place in that case? Such is my doubt."
2.13
In a well defiled by a corpse that is not putrefied nor decomposed,
having drunk [from it], one is purified by pañcagavya after a day and night [of fasting].
2.14
If a corpse is putrefied and decomposed, and if one should drink that [water] found therein,
his purification is the cāndrāyaṇa penance, or else the taptakṛcchra penance.
2.14.p1
Thus ends the second chapter in the treatise on dharma by Āpastamba.
Linked texts (1)
- Āpastambasmṛti — Sanskrit