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# Vaishnava Dharmashastra 53.9

Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra 53.9

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [53.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.53.9)

yat karoty ekarātreṇa vṛṣalīsevanād dvijaḥ  
tad bhaikṣyabhug japan nityaṃ tribhir varṣair vyapohati //

> That guilt which a Brâhmana incurs by intercourse with a Kandâla woman one night, he can only remove by subsisting upon alms, and constantly repeating (the Gâyatrî) for three years.  
> — Julius Jolly 1880, The Institutes of Vishnu

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## Translations (1)

- [The Institutes of Vishnu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu~en-jolly.53.9) — Julius Jolly 1880, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Keśavavaijayantī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu!nandapandita) — Nandapaṇḍita, Sanskrit
- [Vaijayantī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu!nandapandita-alias-vinayakapandita) — Nandapaṇḍita alias Vināyakapaṇḍita, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (3)

- [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c71.s1.373) — P. V. Kane, English
- [Bṛhadviṣṇusmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.laghuvrddha.brhadvisnusmrti.15.9-2) — Viṣṇu Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Smṛtiviveka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrtiviveka.16.7) — Śūlapāṇi, Sanskrit

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