[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 # The Law Code of Devala 7: Āśaucaṃ prāyaścittaṃ ca Devalasmṛti (fragments) 7 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### Āśaucaṃ prāyaścittaṃ ca ### [7.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.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, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > At a birth or a death impurity always pursues the sapiṇḍas and the mother's kin, wherever they may go. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [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 > (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) ### [7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [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 > 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) ## Translations (2) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments~en-mt.7.1) — English, machine translation - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala~en-mt.7) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (18) - [Mitākṣarā (Ṛjumitākṣarā)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya!mitaksara.3.1.190) — Vijñāneśvara, Sanskrit - [Prāyaścitta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.prayascitta) - [Nirṇayasindhu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.nirnaya.nirnayasindhu.72.1.p1.16) — Kamalākarabhaṭṭa 1612, Sanskrit - [Kṛtyakalpataru](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.krtyakalpataru.21.p544) — Lakṣmīdhara Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit - [Śūdrakamalākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.jati.sudrakamalakara.36.1-43) — Kamalākarabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit - [Smṛtiviveka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrtiviveka.5.88) — Śūlapāṇi, Sanskrit - [Gadādharapaddhati](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.gadadharapaddhati.7.p58) — Gadādhara Rājaguru 1725, Sanskrit - [Śuddhikaumudī (Govindānanda Kavikaṅkaṇācārya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.asauca.suddhi.suddhikaumudi.1.p35) — Govindānanda Kavikaṅkaṇācārya 1510, Sanskrit - [Kālasāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.kala.kalasara.7.p16) — Gadādhara (Pāraskara commentator), Sanskrit - [Madanapārijāta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.madanaparijata.9.3-2.12) — Viśveśvarabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit - [Smṛticandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrticandrika.27.p116) — Devaṇṇabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit - [Nityācārapradīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.ahnika.nityacarapradipa.1.p261) — Narasiṃha Vājapeyin, Sanskrit - [Saṃskāraratnamālā (Gopīnātha Dīkṣita Oka)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.samskara.samskararatnamala.12.p1.9) — Gopīnātha Dīkṣita Oka, Sanskrit - [Ācārabhūṣaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.acarabhusana.12.p1.2) — Tryambaka rāma oka 1794, Sanskrit - [Dīpakalikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya!sulapani.7.251.5) — Śūlapāṇi, Sanskrit - [Śūdrācāraśiromaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.sudradharma.sudracarasiromani.6.p6) — Kṛṣṇaśeṣa 1520, Sanskrit - [Keśavavaijayantī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu!nandapandita.2.6) — Nandapaṇḍita 1622, Sanskrit - [Dharmapradīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.dharmapradipa.3.p12) — Bhoja, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.devala*fragments.7) · Pramāṇa