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/ a sinful deed \[bears fruit\] right then and there; a curse bears fruit within a year. ### [1.107.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.4) One may attain everything from proper conduct: the six duties day by day— / the twilight devotions, bathing, recitation, oblation, and the worship of gods, guests, and the rest. ### [1.107.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.5) Unprecedented is the brāhmaṇa who keeps good vows, and unprecedented then are ascetics. / A kṣatriya should conquer hostile armies and protect the earth. ### [1.107.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.6) Trade, agriculture, and the like belong to the vaiśya, and devotion to the twice-born to the śūdra. / One falls through eating what should not be eaten, through theft, and through approaching women who must not be approached. ### [1.107.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.7) A twice-born doing agriculture should not harness an exhausted ox. / Spending half the day in bathing, yoga, and so forth, he should feed brāhmaṇas. ### [1.107.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.8) He should offer the five sacrifices and censure cruelty. / He should not sell sesame and clarified butter, \[otherwise\] he incurs sin through the sacrifice of slaughter. ### [1.107.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.9) Having given a sixth share to the king, a twentieth to the deities, / and a thirty-third to brāhmaṇas, the farmer is not tainted. ### [1.107.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.10) Kṣatriyas, vaiśyas, and śūdras are cultivators; not giving at the threshing floor, one is a thief. / A brāhmaṇa is purified in three days in death-impurity, ### [1.107.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.11) a kṣatriya in ten days, vaiśyas in twelve days, and a śūdra in a month. / \[Or\] a brāhmaṇa attains \[purity\] in ten days, a kṣatriya from the twelfth day, ### [1.107.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.12) a vaiśya in fifteen days, and a śūdra is purified in a month. / Agnates who share the funeral cake, though having separate doors and dwellings, ### [1.107.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.13) incur impurity both at birth and at death. / For the fourth \[generation\] it is ten nights; for the fifth, six nights for a man; ### [1.107.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.14) for the sixth, purification comes after four days; and for the seventh, three days. / When a child dies in another country, purification is immediate, from the moment he died. ### [1.107.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.15) Those children whose teeth have not erupted and those who have issued from the womb / have no cremation, no funeral cake, and no libation of water. ### [1.107.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.16) If a woman’s embryo perishes or miscarries, / the days of impurity are as many as the months the embryo remained. ### [1.107.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.17) Up to the naming ceremony, it is immediate; up to tonsure, a day and night; / up to the investiture of vows, three nights; beyond that, ten days. ### [1.107.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.18) Up to the fourth \[month\] it is miscarriage; in the fifth and sixth, abortion. / Due to celibacy and the agnihotra, there is no impurity, because association is avoided. ### [1.107.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.19) Artisans, craftsmen, physicians, maidservants, manservants, and attendants, / one who maintains the sacred fire, a Śrotriya, and a king are proclaimed to be immediately pure. ### [1.107.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.20) The mother is purified in ten days; upon birth, the father is pure by bathing. / From touch during childbirth there is impurity; having sipped water, the father is pure. ### [1.107.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.21) At marriages, festivals, and sacrifices, if a death or birth impurity intervenes, / the avoidance of anything other than what was previously resolved is prescribed. ### [1.107.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.22) A birth \[impurity\] is purified by a death \[impurity\]; a birth is like a death at child-delivery. / For those who have died in cattle raids and the like, the impurity is only for one night. ### [1.107.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.23) From carrying a destitute corpse, one is purified by breath-control. / From carrying a deceased śūdra, one remains impure for three nights. ### [1.107.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.24) For suicides, those dead from poison, hanging, or insect-bites, there is no funeral rite. / Having touched one killed by a cow or bitten by insects, one is purified by the kṛcchra penance. ### [1.107.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.25) A wife who abandons her blameless, unfallen husband in youth / will be born as a woman for seven births and suffer widowhood again and again. ### [1.107.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.26) By non-approach during the season, the killing of an infant \[is incurred\]; and the woman becomes a sow. / Forbidden to be approached are women observing vows, and those for whom the offering of water has ceased. ### [1.107.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.27) The body-born son and the son of the wife, born of the father, offer the funeral cake to the father. / A kṛcchra penance is prescribed for a younger brother who marries before his elder, and a kṛcchra for the maiden; ### [1.107.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.28) the giver must perform an atikṛcchra penance, and the priest must perform a cāndrāyaṇa penance. / In the case of hunchbacks, dwarfs, eunuchs, stammerers, and idiots, ### [1.107.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.29) those blind from birth, the deaf, and the mute, there is no fault in marrying before the elder. / When the husband is lost, dead, has become an ascetic, is impotent, or is fallen, ### [1.107.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.30) in these five misfortunes another husband is ordained for women. / A woman who dies with her husband will dwell in heaven for as many years as there are body hairs. ### [1.107.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.31) A man bitten by a dog and the like becomes pure by reciting the Gāyatrī. / A brāhmaṇa maintaining the sacred fire, if killed by cāṇḍālas and the like, should be burned with ordinary fire; ### [1.107.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.32) having washed his bones with milk, one should burn them with his own sacred fire according to the mantra. / But if he dies while abroad, one should make an effigy of kuśa grass and burn it again. ### [1.107.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.33) Having spread a black buckskin \[and\] six hundred \[twigs\] of palāśa, placing the śamī wood on the penis, one should place the fire-drill upon the testicles. ### [1.107.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.34) The kaṇḍa on the right hand, and likewise the upabhṛt in the left hand; one should place the mortar at the side, and the pestle upon the back. ### [1.107.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.35) Having placed the grinding stone on the chest, \[and\] rice-grains, ghee, and sesame in the mouth, one should place the sprinkling ladle at the ears, and the ghee-pan at the eyes. ### [1.107.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.36) One should place pieces of gold in the ears, eyes, mouth, and nostrils. By means of the implements of the agnihotra, one attains the world of Brahmā. ### [1.107.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.37) "Svāhā to this heaven-world": thus \[making\] an offering of ghee once. \[For killing\] geese, sārasa cranes, krauñca cranes, cakravākas, and cocks, ### [1.107.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.38) and a killer of peacocks and sheep becomes purified in a day and a night. Having killed all \[kinds of\] birds, one becomes purified in a day and a night. ### [1.107.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.39) Having killed any four-footed animal, one should fast and chant for a day and a night. Having killed a śūdra, one should perform a kṛcchra penance; but the killer of a vaiśya \[should perform\] an atikṛcchra; \[for killing\] a kṣatriya, a cāndrāyaṇa; \[for killing\] a brāhmaṇa, one should undertake \[a penance\] of thirty-two \[years\]. ### [1.107.39.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.39.p1) Thus ends the one hundred and seventh chapter, entitled "Exposition of the Dharma Spoken by Parāśara", in the section on conduct, in the first part called the first section, in the venerable and great Garuḍa Purāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107) · Pramāṇa