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# The Law Code of Devala 7.4: Nirṇayasindhu · Śūdrakamalākara · Dharmapradīpa

Devalasmṛti (fragments) 7.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.7.4)

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

> 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,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> (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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (2)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments~en-mt.7.4) — English, machine translation
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala~en-mt.7) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (3)

- [Śūdrakamalākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.jati.sudrakamalakara.37.1-10) — Kamalākarabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Nirṇayasindhu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.nirnaya.nirnayasindhu.72.1.p1.30) — Kamalākarabhaṭṭa 1612, Sanskrit
- [Dharmapradīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.dharmapradipa.3.p12) — Bhoja, Sanskrit

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