Apastambasmriti 9
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9.1
Description of penances for drinking undrinkable liquids and eating inedible foods: / If the anus of a Brahmin leaks while he is eating, / what would be the penance for him, polluted by food or saliva and impure?
9.2
Having first performed purification, he should sip water afterwards; / having fasted for a day and night, he is purified with pañcagavya.
9.3
If, having eaten all the food without performing his own purification, / he eats through delusion, he is purified by drinking barley water for a period of three nights.
9.4
A handful of barley grain, one pala of clarified butter, / and five palas of cow's urine; he should not make [him] consume more than that.
9.5
Upon eating things that must not be licked, drunk, or eaten, / and semen, urine, or feces, what would be the penance?
9.6
Lotus, udumbara, and bilva, kuśa, aśvattha, and palāśa— / having drunk water [boiled with] these, he is purified in six nights.
9.7
Those Brahmins who have apostatized from renunciation, [suicide by] fire, water, and the like, / or have turned back from fasting unto death, wishing to become householders,
9.8
Should perform three kṛcchra penances or three cāndrāyaṇa penances; / having received anew all the life-cycle rites beginning with the birth ritual, / for them [there is] a sāntapana kṛcchra or a cāndrāyaṇa penance.
9.9
If the body should be enveloped by crows, herons, or kites, and smeared with impure matter, / and it should enter into the ears and the mouth, purification of the one defiled by smearing is achieved through a thorough bath.
9.10
Above the navel, with the exception of the two hands, whatever limb is defiled: / above, a bath [is required]; below, purification; he is purified by wiping alone.
9.11
Whose mouth shoes or impure matter touches, / purification with earth, a bath, and pañcagavya are the means of purification.
9.12
A Brahmin is purified after ten days upon birth or death in one's own class, / and in the classes of Kṣatriyas, Vaiśyas, and Śūdras after six, three, and then one [day].
9.13
When food has been brought forward and the eater has sat down, / he should not give nor make an oblation of that which was abandoned without the calf drinking.
9.14
When the food has been prepared for a meal and is defiled by flies or hair, / immediately thereafter he should touch water, and touch that food with ashes.
9.15
Having unintentionally eaten food consisting of dried meat, or even the food of a Śūdra, / a Brahmin should perform a kṛcchra penance; knowingly, he should perform three kṛcchra penances.
9.16
He who leaves [food] uneaten, and he who eats while dripping, / both the eater and the feeder go to sin along the row [of diners].
9.17
Whatever food he eats, or has eaten, or especially [if it is] corrupted, / having fasted for a day and night, he is purified by pañcagavya.
9.18
Standing in water, he is pure in water; standing on land, [pure] on land; / placing both feet on both sides and sipping water, he is pure on both sides.
9.19
Having emerged [from the water] and sipped water, having stepped down from the water, he should touch water; / endowed with welfare in this manner, he is revered by Varuṇa.
9.20
In the fire sanctuary, in a cowpen, and in the presence of Brahmins, / during Vedic recitation, and at a meal, casting off shoes [is required].
9.21
At a life-cycle rite beginning from birth and on the edge of a cremation ground, eating / should not be done by non-sapiṇḍas, especially during the tonsure ceremony.
9.22
Having eaten the food of a sacrificial priest, at a new ancestral offering, or during an eclipse, / and at the first pregnancy of women, he should perform a cāndrāyaṇa penance.
9.23
At a boiled-rice offering for Brahmins, at an ancestral offering, likewise at the parting-of-the-hair rite, / and having eaten at a grain ancestral offering or an ancestral offering for the recently deceased, he should perform a cāndrāyaṇa penance.
9.24
In the house of a woman who is childless, one should not eat; / but he who eats out of delusion goes to the hell of pus.
9.25
The father who gives away a maiden even for a small bride-price, / consumes feces and urine in the Raurava hell for many years.
9.26
And those relatives who, out of delusion, live off a woman's property— / gold, vehicles, garments—those wicked men go to the downward course.
9.27
A king's food takes away splendor; the food of a Śūdra, spiritual luster; / but he who eats unsanctified food eats the filth of the earth.
9.28
During impurity caused by death, and during impurity caused by birth, when the moon or the sun is eclipsed, / and he who eats in the shadow of an elephant, that man becomes a sinner.
9.29
Having eaten at the first pregnancies of these—a remarried woman, one who returns again, / one bearing another's seed, and an unchaste woman—he should perform a cāndrāyaṇa penance.
9.30
Having eaten, especially, the food of these: a killer of a mother, a killer of a father, / a killer of a Brahmin, and one who defiles his guru's bed, he should perform a cāndrāyaṇa penance.
9.31
Having eaten the food of washermen, hunters, actors, and those who make a living by bamboo or leather, / a Brahmin obtains purification by a cāndrāyaṇa penance.
9.31.p1
If one polluted by food or saliva should ever be touched by another polluted by food or saliva
of the same social class, he becomes pure by rising up and performing rinsing [of the mouth].
9.32
A twice-born touched while polluted by food or saliva by a dog or by a Śūdra who is polluted by food or saliva, / having fasted for one night, is purified by pañcagavya.
9.33
To a Brahmin who is perpetually a servant to a Śūdra, / food should be given on the ground; just as a dog is, so is he.
9.34
In waterless wildernesses, on a road beset with thieves and tigers, / having discharged urine and feces, how is one holding goods pure?
9.35
Placing the food on the ground, performing purification in accordance with what is proper, / taking the cooked food in his lap and then sipping water, he is pure.
9.36
A twice-born, having discharged urine or feces without having performed purification for himself, / having eaten out of delusion, having drunk products of the cow for three nights, is purified.
9.37
If a Brahmin, deluded by intoxication, should approach a menstruating woman, / he would be purified by a cāndrāyaṇa penance and by feeding Brahmins.
9.38
If, while polluted by food or saliva after eating and without having sipped water, a Brahmin weak in knowledge / is touched out of negligence by Cāṇḍālas or by a Śvapāka,
9.39
Bathing regularly at the three junctures of the day, celibate, sleeping on the ground, / having fasted for three nights, he is purified by pañcagavya.
9.40
And the twice-born who drinks water when touched by a Cāṇḍāla, / having fasted for a day and night, is purified by [bathing at] the three junctures of the day.
9.41
In the evening and in the morning for a day and night—they know that as one-fourth of a kṛcchra; / likewise, in the evening and in the morning for one [day], and two days eating only unasked food,
9.42
And for two days he should not eat: that is prescribed as half of a kṛcchra; / this is a light penance for sins according to their gravity.
9.43
One who accepts a black antelope skin and sesame seeds, a seller of elephants and horses, / and one who carries out a corpse, will not become a human again.
9.43.p1
Thus ends the ninth chapter in the Dharmaśāstra of Āpastamba.
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- Āpastambasmṛti — Sanskrit