Apastambasmriti 5
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- 5.14 — 1 part
5.1
Now the description of penance for eating the leavings of a Vaiśya, an outcaste, a dog, or a crow: / When a member of the twice-born classes is ever touched by a Cāṇḍāla, / and drinks water without sprinkling [it], how would the penance be?
5.2
A Brahmin is purified in a period of three nights with pañcagavya; / a Kṣatriya is purified in a period of two nights with pañcagavya.
5.3
For the fourth social class, however, there is indeed no penance; / there is no religious observance, no ascetic toil, and no fire oblation whatsoever found.
5.4
pañcagavya must not be given to him, because of the exclusion of Vedic mantras; / but having declared it to the twice-born, a Śūdra is purified by a gift.
5.5
If a twice-born unwittingly eats the food leavings of a Brahmin, / muttering the Gāyatrī for a day and night, he is purified.
5.6
If a twice-born knowingly eats the food leavings of members of the Vaiśya class, / drinking milk with śaṅkhapuṣpī, he is purified in just a period of three nights.
5.7
If one ever eats with a Brahmin woman or [eats] her food leavings, / the wise constantly consider that there is no fault in that.
5.8
If one should eat or drink the food leavings of other women, / the purification would be by a prājāpatya penance; the venerable Aṅgiras has declared so.
5.9
Having eaten the food remnants of outcastes, for the twice-born / a cāndrāyaṇa penance, half of it, and a quarter of it is the rule for Brahmins, Kṣatriyas, and Vaiśyas.
5.10
On eating feces or urine, a Brahmin should perform a taptakṛcchra penance; / and on consuming the food leavings of a dog or a crow, the rule of a prājāpatya penance is prescribed.
5.11
If any Brahmin, being polluted by food or saliva, unintentionally touches / dogs, cocks, and Śūdras, and likewise a vessel of liquor,
5.12
and whatever has been stepped on by a bird, or whatever impure matter at any time, / having fasted for a day and night, he is purified by pañcagavya.
5.13
And when he is ever touched by a Vaiśya who is polluted by food or saliva, / bathing and muttered prayer at the three junctures of the day, he is purified at the end of the day.
5.14
If a Brahmin is ever touched by a Brahmin who is polluted by food or saliva, / having bathed and sipped water, he would be purified; the sage Āpastamba has said so.
5.14.p1
Thus ends the fifth chapter in the Dharmaśāstra of Āpastamba.
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- Āpastambasmṛti — Sanskrit