Apastambasmriti 4
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- 4.13 — 1 part
4.1
Now the penance for drinking water from a Cāṇḍāla's well and the like, and for contact with a menstruating woman and others during drinking and the like: / If someone unwittingly drinks water from a Cāṇḍāla's well or vessel, / how is his penance ordained for each social class?
4.3
A Brahmin should perform a sāntapana penance, a king a prājāpatya penance, / a Vaiśya should perform half of that, and one should assign a quarter to a Śūdra.
4.4
Having eaten, polluted by food or saliva, and not having sipped water, / if he inadvertently comes into contact with Cāṇḍālas or an outcaste dog-cooker, he should perform purification there.
4.5
He should mutter the Gāyatrī eight thousand times, or the Drupadā a hundred times; / muttering the prayer while fasting for a period of three nights, he is purified by pañcagavya.
4.6
When a twice-born, having passed feces or urine, is touched by a Cāṇḍāla, / the penance would be a period of three nights; if he was polluted by food or saliva after eating, he should perform six.
4.7
In the contact of drinking or sexual intercourse, and likewise of urine and feces, / if one should enter into contact with a menstruating woman and with outcastes—
4.8
when one is touched by these very ones, how would the penance be? / In the case of eating, it would be a period of three nights, and in drinking, just three days;
4.9
in sexual intercourse it would be a quarter-kṛcchra penance, and likewise in the case of urine and feces: / one day for urine, but three days for feces.
4.10
One day is prescribed there in the case of chewing a tooth-cleaning stick.
4.11
When a Cāṇḍāla has climbed a tree and a twice-born stands right there, / [and the twice-born] eats its fruits, how should one declare the purification?
4.12
Having obtained the permission of Brahmins, he should take a bath with his clothes on; / having fasted for one night, he is purified by pañcagavya.
4.13
Polluted by anything whatsoever of food or saliva, if a twice-born touches impure matter, / having fasted for a day and night, he is purified by pañcagavya.
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Thus ends the fourth chapter in the Dharmaśāstra of Āpastamba.
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- Āpastambasmṛti — Sanskrit