The Law Code of Devala 7: Āśaucaṃ prāyaścittaṃ ca

7.1

janane maraṇe nityam āśaucam anudhāvati | sapiṇḍān mātṛbandhūṃś ca yatra kvacana gacchataḥ

If what is undrinkable has been drunk, and what is inedible has been eaten, / and intercourse with an illicit woman has been performed by a Brahmin carried off by Mlecchas,

At a birth or a death impurity always pursues the sapiṇḍas and the mother's kin, wherever they may go.

7.2

svāśaucakālād vijñeyaṃ sparśanaṃ ca tribhāgataḥ | śūdraviṭkṣatraviprāṇāṃ yathāśāstraṃ pracoditam

(The impurity incurred by) touching (a dead man) of the Śūdra, Vaiśya, Kṣatriya and Brahmin classes is to be known as a third of their own period of impurity, as the treatises prescribe.

7.3

parataḥ parataḥ śuddhir aghavṛddhau vidhīyate | syāc cet paścāt samād ahnaḥ pūrveṇāpy anuśiṣyate || aghānāṃ yaugapadye tu jñeyā śuddhir garīyasā | maraṇotpattiyoge tu garīyo maraṇaṃ bhavet

When impurities overlap, purification is prescribed by the later one; if (the second) occurs after an equal day, it is governed by the former. When impurities coincide, purification is to be known by the heavier; when a death and a birth coincide, the death is the heavier.

7.4

ā tripakṣāt trirātraṃ syāt ṣaṇmāsāt pakṣiṇī tataḥ | param ekāham ā varṣād ūrdhvaṃ snāto viśudhyati

(Hearing of a death) within three fortnights, three days; within six months, a day and two nights; then one day until a year; after that one is purified by bathing.

7.5

ādyāhaḥsu nivṛtteṣu susnātāḥ kṛtamaṅgalāḥ | āśaucād dvijā mucyante brāhmaṇān svasti vācya ca

When the first days are over, the twice-born, well bathed and having performed auspicious rites and made the Brahmins pronounce a blessing, are freed from impurity.

7.6

ekaśayyāsanaṃ paṅktibhāṇḍapakvānnamiśraṇam | yājanādhyāpanaṃ yonis tathā ca sahabhojanam || navadhā saṃkaraḥ prokto na kartavyo 'dhamaiḥ saha

Sharing a bed or a seat, the dining row, vessels, mixing cooked food, officiating, teaching, marriage and eating together: association is declared to be of nine kinds; it is not to be practised with the vile.

7.7

yat syād anabhisaṃdhāya pāpakarma sakṛt kṛtam | tasyeyaṃ niṣkṛtiḥ proktā dharmavidbhir manīṣibhiḥ || vidheḥ prāthamikād asmād dvitīye dviguṇaṃ smṛtam | tṛtīye triguṇaṃ kṛcchraṃ caturthe nāsti niṣkṛtiḥ

For a sinful act done once without intent, this atonement is declared by the wise who know dharma; for a second time, double this first rule; for a third, a threefold Kṛcchra; for a fourth there is no atonement.

7.8

tīrthe puṇyatame yathāvad dehanyāsād brāhmaṇo mahāpātakān mucyate | dharmayuddhe gograhe grāmaghātādiṣu prāṇatyāgāt pūyate kṣatriyaḥ śastropajīvinaś ca

A Brahmin is freed from grave sins by duly laying down his body at a most holy ford; a Kṣatriya and those who live by arms are purified by giving their lives in a righteous battle, in a cattle-raid or when a village is being destroyed.

7.9

upavītaṃ vaṭor ekaṃ dve tathetarayoḥ smṛte | ekam eva yatīnāṃ syād iti śāstrasya niścayaḥ

The student has one sacred thread, the other two (householder and hermit) two; ascetics have only one: this is the settled view of the treatise.