[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Polity, Pleasure & Law](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti) › [Law and Social-Religious Duty](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma) › [Minor extant smṛtis](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti) › [Devalasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala) › [The old Devala law-book — fragments](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments) › 7.9 # The Law Code of Devala 7.9: Nirṇayasindhu · Ācārabhūṣaṇa · Saṃskāraratnamālā (Gopīnātha Dīkṣita Oka) Devalasmṛti (fragments) 7.9 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.7.9) upavītaṃ vaṭor ekaṃ dve tathetarayoḥ smṛte | ekam eva yatīnāṃ syād iti śāstrasya niścayaḥ > 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) > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.7.8) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.7) ## Translations (2) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments~en-mt.7.9) — English, machine translation - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala~en-mt.7) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (4) - [Smṛticandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrticandrika.27.p116) — Devaṇṇabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit - [Saṃskāraratnamālā (Gopīnātha Dīkṣita Oka)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.samskara.samskararatnamala.12.p1.9) — Gopīnātha Dīkṣita Oka, Sanskrit - [Nirṇayasindhu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.nirnaya.nirnayasindhu.34.2-8.1) — Kamalākarabhaṭṭa 1612, Sanskrit - [Ācārabhūṣaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.acarabhusana.12.p1.2) — Tryambaka rāma oka 1794, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.7.9) · Pramāṇa