Apastambasmriti 6
English (machine translation) 6
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- 6.10 — 1 part
6.1
Now, the penance for wearing indigo cloth and consuming indigo:
Henceforth I shall proclaim the rule regarding indigo cloth:
it is not defiled during sexual enjoyment for women's pleasure in bed.
6.2
In rearing [the plant], and in selling it, and in subsisting on trade in it, / a Brahmin becomes fallen; he is purified by three kṛcchra penances.
6.3
Bathing, giving, ascetic toil, fire oblation, Vedic recitation, offering water to ancestors, / and the five daily sacrifices are useless for him, because of wearing indigo-dyed cloth.
6.4
When a Brahmin wears indigo-dyed cloth on his limbs, / having fasted for a day and night, he is purified by pañcagavya.
6.5
If juice of indigo should ever enter through the pores of the body hair, / a Brahmin becomes fallen; he is purified by three kṛcchra penances.
6.6
When indigo wood pierces the body of a Brahmin / and blood is seen there, the twice-born should perform a cāndrāyaṇa penance.
6.7
If a Brahmin inadvertently enters into an indigo field anywhere, / having fasted for a day and night, he is purified by pañcagavya.
6.8
Food that is brought [by someone wearing] indigo-dyed cloth / is inedible for the twice-born; having eaten it, one should perform a cāndrāyaṇa penance.
6.9
If a Brahmin should inadvertently eat indigo anywhere, / his purification shall be by the cāndrāyaṇa penance: so spoke the sage Āpastamba.
6.10
As much earth as has been sown with indigo is impure; / its measure is twelve years, after which it becomes pure.
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Thus ends the sixth chapter in the Dharmaśāstra of Āpastamba.
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- Āpastambasmṛti — Sanskrit