Agnipurana 168

English (machine translation) 168

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168.1 — 3 parts
168.12 — 3 parts
168.22 — 4 parts
168.32 — 4 parts
168.41 — 5 parts

168.1

Puṣkara said: / The king should inflict punishment upon men who do not perform expiation. / Whether committed intentionally or unintentionally, one must perform the prescribed expiation.

168.1.p3

2. "ripuṃ harediti" in Ṅa. and Ña. / p. 166

168.2

One should never eat the food of the intoxicated, the enraged, or the diseased, / nor what is touched by those guilty of great sins, nor what is touched by a menstruating woman;

168.3

nor the food of a corporate guild, nor the food of a courtezan, nor of a usurer, nor of a singer, / nor of an accused person, nor of a eunuch, nor of a man in whose house a paramour dwells;

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nor of a washerman, nor of a cruel person, nor of a bard, nor of a gambler, / nor indeed of a false ascetic, nor of a thief, nor of a rod-bearer [policeman];

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nor of sons of adulteresses, sons of widows, or henpecked men, nor of a seller of the Veda, / nor the food of an actor, nor of a weaver, nor the food of an ungrateful person;

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nor of a blacksmith, nor of a Niṣāda, nor of a clothes-washer, / nor the food of a false renunciant, nor of an unchaste woman, nor of an oilman;

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nor the food of an apostate ascetic; and one should avoid food offered with malice; / likewise, the food of a brāhmaṇa, if uninvited by that brāhmaṇa.

168.8

And the food of a brāhmaṇa should not be eaten by a śūdra, even when invited. / If one eats the food of any of these unwittingly, one should fast for three days;

having eaten it wittingly, one should perform a kṛcchra penance; likewise for [consuming] semen, feces, or urine. / But having eaten the food of a Caṇḍāla or a Śvapāca, one should perform a cāndrāyaṇa penance.

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And food during the ten days of mourning, food smelled by a cow, / the leavings of a śūdra, the leavings of a dog, and likewise the food of an outcaste:

168.11

one should perform a taptakṛcchra penance, [and] during ritual impurity one should perform a kṛcchra penance. / Whoever eats [the food] of someone during ritual impurity, he too becomes impure in like manner.

168.12

From a well containing a dead five-nailed animal, or tainted with feces once,

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[Footnote]

168.12.p2

1. "gaṇānāṃ gaṇikānāñceti" in Ṅa. and Ña.

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2. "cauradāmbhikayostatheti" in Ña. / p. 167

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having drunk the water, the best of the twice-born should remain fasting for three days.

168.13

Everywhere for a śūdra there should be a quarter [penance], two and three [quarters] for a vaiśya and a king [kṣatriya]. / Having consumed the urine and feces of a domesticated pig, a donkey, a camel,

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a jackal, a monkey, or a crow, a twice-born should perform a cāndrāyaṇa penance; / likewise having eaten dried meat, food during mourning, or hail-stones;

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or having eaten the meat of carnivores, boars, camels, jackals, monkeys, crows, / cows, humans, horses, donkeys, camels, or mushrooms, or a village rooster,

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or the meat of an elephant, one is purified by a taptakṛcchra penance. / Likewise, having eaten at an uncooked-grain ancestral rite, or a celibate student having consumed honey,

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or if one should eat garlic or turnips, one becomes pure through a prājāpatya or other [penance]. / Having eaten meat prepared for oneself, one should perform a cāndrāyaṇa penance;

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and [milk of a cow within ten days of calving], colostrum, the fruit of the śleṣmātaka, earth, / kṛśara, saṃyāva, rice-pudding, sweet cakes, and fried pastries made in vain [not offered to deities];

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meat from an animal not consecrated for sacrifice, food offered to deities, and oblations. / Except for cows, buffaloes, and also she-goats,

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all kinds of milk are to be avoided, and even their milk within ten days [of calving]. / The hare, porcupine, monitor lizard, rhinoceros, and tortoise:

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these five-nailed animals are declared edible, and the remaining ones are forbidden. / One may eat the pāṭhīna and rohita fishes, and the siṃhatuṇḍa.

168.22

All products made of barley and wheat, modifications of milk, / [dishes like] vāgaṣāḍga, vacakra, and the like, even if kept overnight, provided they contain oil or ghee, [may be eaten].

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[Footnote]

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1. "dvitīyaṃ vaiśyaśūdrayoreti" in Ka., Kha., Ṅa., and Ña.

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2. "śuṣkāṇi dagdhamaṃsāni iti" in Ṅa.

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3. "prājāpatyāddvijaḥ śuciriti" in Kha. / p. 168

168.23

A brāhmaṇa whose fire is kindled for the agnihotra, who acts willfully, / should perform a cāndrāyaṇa penance for a month; the posture of a hero's wife is beneficial.

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Killing a brāhmaṇa, drinking liquor, theft, and intercourse with the guru's wife: / they call these the great sins, as well as association with those [who commit them].

168.25

Exalting oneself falsely, slander reaching the king, / and obstinate false accusation against a guru are equal to killing a brāhmaṇa.

168.26

Abandoning the Veda, reviling the Veda, false testimony, slaying a friend, / eating condemned food or condemned clarified butter: these six are equal to drinking liquor.

168.27

Misappropriation of a deposit, or of a man, a horse, silver, / land, diamonds, or gems is remembered as equal to the theft of gold.

168.28

Discharging semen into women of one's own family, maidens, low-caste women, / or the wives of a friend or a son, they know to be equal to violating the guru's bed.

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Killing a cow, sacrificing for those unfit to sacrifice, adultery, selling oneself, / abandoning one's guru, mother, or father, or one's Vedic study, sacred fires, or son;

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letting a younger brother marry first, marrying before an elder brother, / giving a maiden to either of these two, or sacrificing for either of them;

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defiling a maiden, usury, breaking a votive observance, / selling a tank, a grove, a wife, or offspring;

168.32

becoming an outcaste through neglect of rites, abandoning kinsmen, teaching for a salary, / studying from one who teaches for a salary, selling what is forbidden to sell;

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[Footnote]

168.32.p2

1. "samāni brahmahatyayeti" in Kha., Ṅa., and Ña.

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2. "garhitānāmannajagdhiriti" in Ṅa.

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3. "sakhyuḥ sutasya ceti" in Ṅa. / p. 169

168.33

superintending mines and works of all kinds, operating large mechanical apparatuses, / destroying medicinal herbs, living off one's wife, omitting rites;

168.34

felling unseasoned trees for firewood, / abducting women, associating with a reviler of women;

168.35

undertaking rituals solely for oneself, eating condemned food, / not maintaining the sacred fires, theft, non-payment of debts;

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studying bad scriptures, vicious conduct, addiction to vices, / theft of grain, base metals, or cattle, consorting with women who drink liquor;

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killing a woman, a śūdra, a vaiśya, or a kṣatriya, and atheism are minor sins. / Causing bodily pain to a brāhmaṇa, smelling what ought not to be smelled or liquor,

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deceitfulness, and homosexual intercourse among men are remembered as causing loss of caste. / The slaughter of dogs, donkeys, camels, lions, goats, and sheep,