Apastambasmriti 7
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- 7.21 — 1 part
7.p1
Touching an outcaste and others by a menstruating woman, of a maiden during a marriage and so forth,
7.p2
penance upon the appearance of menses.
7.1
Bathing of a menstruating woman is prescribed on the fourth day. / When the menses have ceased, the woman may be approached; by no means while they have not ceased.
7.2
When menses flow excessively for women because of disease, / they are not impure thereby in this world, for that is a morbid disorder of theirs.
7.3
She is not of virtuous conduct as long as the menses flow; / when the menses have ceased, she becomes fit for household duties and sexual union.
7.4
On the first day she is declared a Cāṇḍāla woman, on the second a slayer of a Brahmin, / on the third a washerwoman; on the fourth day she becomes pure.
7.5
A menstruating woman who is touched by an outcaste or a Śvapāka / should perform a penance after passing through those days [of her flow].
7.6
There shall be fasting for a period of three nights, and pañcagavya is the purifier; / having reached that night, he should engage with the womb to produce offspring.
7.7
One should avoid a menstruating woman touched by a dog and by a Śvapāka; / having fasted for a period of three nights, she is purified with pañcagavya.
7.8
On the first day, [fasting for] six nights; on the second, three days; / and on the third, fasting; on the fourth, by viewing fire.
7.9
When a marriage has commenced, a sacrifice begun, and a rite being performed, / if a maiden becomes menstruating, how should the rite proceed?
7.10
Having then bathed the maiden and adorned her with other clothes, / having offered the countervailing oblation again, one should perform the remainder of the rite.
7.11
A menstruating woman touched by waterbirds, cocks, or crows / is purified by fasting for a period of three nights and with pañcagavya.
7.12
If a menstruating woman is ever touched by one polluted by food or saliva, / a Brahmin is purified by a kṛcchra penance, and she is purified by giving a gift.
7.13
If a Cāṇḍāla or a menstruating woman has mounted the same branch / together with a Brahmin, he should perform a bath with clothes on.
7.14
If touching of a menstruating woman somehow occurs by a dog, / she is purified having fasted for whatever remains of the days of her menses.
7.15
If unable to fast, she should afterwards perform a bath; / if even unable for that with one [meal], she should then drink pañcagavya.
7.16
When a Brahmin polluted by food or saliva touches intoxicant or a menstruating woman, / having touched intoxicant he should perform a kṛcchra penance, and half of that for a menstruating woman.
7.17
If a Brahmin polluted by food or saliva touches a menstruating woman or a woman recently delivered of a child, / the Brahmin should perform half a kṛcchra penance as a purifying penance.
7.18
If a menstruating woman is touched by Cāṇḍālas or Śvapākas, / she is purified after the remaining days by [eating] what is plowed with a plowshare and with pañcagavya.
7.19
If a Brahmin menstruating woman touches a Śūdra menstruating woman, / having fasted for a day and night, she is purified with pañcagavya.
7.20
And likewise, if a Brahmin woman [touches] a menstruating Kṣatriya or Vaiśya woman, / having performed a bath with clothes on, she should drink clarified butter at the end of the day.
7.21
Among women of the same social class, however, an immediate bath is prescribed; / thus indeed shall purification take place: so spoke the sage Āpastamba.
7.21.p1
Thus ends the seventh chapter in the Dharmaśāstra of Āpastamba.
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- Āpastambasmṛti — Sanskrit