Apastambasmriti 8
English (machine translation) 8
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8.11
Description of the rules for the purification of bell-metal defiled by liquor and other things: / Bell-metal that is not smeared with liquor is purified with ashes; / when touched by liquor, feces, or urine, it is purified by heating and scraping.
8.2
Bell-metal vessels smelled by cows, or polluted by food or saliva of pure persons, / and those defiled by dogs and crows, are purified with ten ashes.
8.3
The purification of gold and women is by wind and the rays of the sun and moon.
8.4
Woolen cloth touched by semen or touched by a corpse is defiled; / washing only that [affected] spot with water and earth, it is purified.
8.5
Pure food of a non-Brahmin digests in five nights; / food accompanied by cooked vegetables digests in half a month;
8.5.p1
Milk and yogurt [are digested] in a month, and likewise ghee in six months;
but oil in the belly digests in a year—or does it not?
8.7
Those who eat the food of a Śūdra continuously for one month / attain the state of a Śūdra in this life, and dying, are born from a female dog.
8.8
Food of a Śūdra, contact with a Śūdra, sitting together with a Śūdra, / and acquiring knowledge from a Śūdra would cause even a blazing [sage] to fall.
8.9
The Brahmin who has consecrated the sacred fires and does not turn away from the food of a Śūdra, / his self, sacred knowledge, and the three fires perish.
8.10
He who, having eaten the food of a Śūdra, approaches for sexual intercourse, / his sons belong to him whose food it was, for the semen arises from another.
8.11-2
Whatever twice-born man dies with the food of a Śūdra remaining in his stomach / becomes a village pig, or dying, is born as a dog.
8.12
One may always eat the [food] of a Brahmin; that of a Kṣatriya on a festival day; / that of a Vaiśya during the consecration for a sacrifice; that of a Śūdra never.
8.13
The food of a Brahmin is considered nectar; that of a Kṣatriya is remembered as milk; / the food of a Vaiśya is mere food; that of a Śūdra is remembered as blood.
8.14
Through the offering to all deities, fire oblation, worship of deities, and muttered prayers, / the Brahmin's food, consecrated by the Ṛg, Yajur, and Sāma Vedas, is therefore nectar.
8.15
Conforming to legal transaction, righteous, devoid of deceit, / and because of the protection of living beings, the food of a Kṣatriya is therefore milk.
8.16
Through his own work and with oxen, pursuing [farming] according to his capacity, / through offering at the threshing floor and hospitality to guests, the food of a Vaiśya is consecrated.
8.17
Of one blind with the darkness of ignorance and devoted to drinking intoxicants, / devoid of rules and mantras, the food of a Śūdra is therefore blood.
8.18
Raw meat, honey, clarified butter, parched grain, and likewise milk, / molasses, buttermilk: these may equally be accepted from a Śūdra even by an ascetic.
8.19
Vegetables, meat, lotus-fibers, coriander, roasted barley meal, sesame seeds, / juices, fruits, and oil-cake may indeed be accepted from anywhere.
8.20
If in a time of distress [food] has been eaten by a Brahmin in the house of a Śūdra, / he should be purified by repentance, or recite the Drupada verse a hundred times.
8.21
And if one holding goods is touched at any time by a Śūdra polluted by food or saliva, / that should not be eaten by a twice-born man: so spoke the sage Āpastamba.
8.21.p1
Thus ends the eighth chapter in the Dharmaśāstra of Āpastamba.
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- Āpastambasmṛti — Sanskrit