Garudapurana 1.97

The auspicious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — [Chapter] 97
Yājñavalkya said:
I shall declare the purification of articles; understand that, O best of men!
Of [objects] of gold, silver, lotus-seed, conch-shell, rope, and skins,

as well as vessels and seats, purification is desired with water.
Of the ladle and spoon, [purification is] with warm water, and of grain and the like, by sprinkling;

of wood, horns, and the like, by scraping; of sacrificial vessels, by wiping.
Woollen and silk cloth is purified with hot water and cow's urine.

Alms-food, a woman's mouth, seeing, [and] earthenware by re-firing [are pure].
When food has been smelled by a cow or defiled by hair, flies, or insects,

purification occurs by throwing ashes [over it]; the purification of the ground is by sweeping and the like.
[The cleansing] of tin, lead, and copper is with alkalis, acids, and water.

The cleansing of iron and bell-metal is with ash and water; what is unknown is always pure.
Of an object smeared with impure matter, [purification is] by earth and water through removing the smell and coating.

Water that satisfies a cow, is in its natural state, and is upon the earth is pure;
likewise meat brought down by dogs, cāṇḍālas, carnivorous beasts, and the like.

Sunbeams, fire, dust, shadow, a cow, a horse, the earth, breezes,
droplets from horses and goats, and drops from sipping water are pure.

After bathing, drinking, sneezing, sleeping, eating, and walking on a road,
having sipped water, one should sip water again, and also after putting on another garment.

Upon sneezing, spitting, sleeping, donning a garment, and shedding tears—
in these five cases one should not sip water, [but] touch the right ear;
for the gods, Agni and others, reside in the right ear of a twice-born.

Thus ends the ninety-seventh chapter, entitled "Exposition of the Purification of Articles Declared by Yājñavalkya," in the section on conduct, in the first part called the pūrvakhaṇḍa of the auspicious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.