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Garudapurana 1.222

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The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa [chapter] 222.
Brahmā said:
I shall speak of penances and the like, which destroy the multitude of hells. / Flies, drops of saliva, a woman, water on the ground, fire, / a cat, and a mongoose—these are always clean.

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A twice-born who heedlessly eats what has been touched by the leavings of a śūdra, / having fasted for a day and night, becomes pure by [consuming] pañcagavya.

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If a brāhmaṇa is ever touched by an impure brāhmaṇa carrying food remnants, / bathing and silent recitation are to be performed, and he eats at the end of the day.

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Food contaminated with a fly or hair becomes pure at that instant by vomiting [it up]. / And he who eats from the palm of the hand, with a finger, or off the arm,

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would become pure in a day and night, or if he drinks water [thus contaminated]. / But water that is the residue of what was drunk with the left hand is like liquor.

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Water contained inside leather is impure; one should not drink it. / In whose house an unknown outcaste dwells:

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a cāndrāyaṇa or a parāka is the purification for twice-borns, / but a prājāpatya for a śūdra, when it is discovered afterwards; and likewise for others.

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Whoever eats cooked food there, one should assign half a kṛcchra to him; / and whoever eats food from those [persons] as well, a quarter-kṛcchra is prescribed.

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And of washermen, actors, and those who make a living by bamboo and leather— / whoever eats the food of these, a twice-born should perform a cāndrāyaṇa.

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If through ignorance a brāhmaṇa drinks water from cāṇḍālas' wells or vessels, / he should perform a sāntapana; and half of that is remembered for a vaiśya.

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A quarter is to be assigned to a śūdra. [If water is drunk] in an outcaste's house through ignorance, / the penance would be three kṛcchras; it is a parāka for sexual union with an outcaste woman.

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A twice-born who eats the leavings of an outcaste is purified by a cāndrāyaṇa; / when he heedlessly eats cāṇḍāla food, he should perform a lunar observance.

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The kṣatriya class [performs] a sāntapana, and the others six [days] and two nights. / If a cāṇḍāla and a brāhmaṇa are on the same tree, and [the brāhmaṇa] heedlessly / eats fruit there, he is purified in a day and night.

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If, having eaten, seated, and not yet sipped water, one should touch a cāṇḍāla, / one should recite the Gāyatrī eight thousand times, or the Drupadā verse a hundred times.

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Or if feces and urine are evacuated [in proximity] with cāṇḍālas or dog-cookers, O twice-borns, / the penance would be three nights; and a parāka for sexual union with an outcaste woman.

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For having unintentionally approached such women, a parāka is effective there; / for one who is begotten upon an outcaste caste, there is no penance.

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If a twice-born drinks water from vessels corrupted by liquor and the like, / he is indeed purified by a quarter-kṛcchra and by the rite of a repeat sacrament.

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Those brāhmaṇas who have fallen away [from their vows] because of lightning, fire, wind, and the like, / and, having accepted food and drink, wish to enter another household,

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should be made to perform three kṛcchras and three cāndrāyaṇas indeed, / along with the birth-rite and other sacraments: so said the sage Vasiṣṭha.

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A woman seen [in violation] is purified through prājāpatya and the like by eating twice [a day]. / A twice-born touched by food leavings, or by food leavings touched by a dog or by a śūdra,

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having fasted for one night, is purified by pañcagavya; / but when touched by an outcaste beyond the classes, [he is purified] in five nights.

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Continuous streams [of water] are not polluted, nor dust blown by the wind; / women, children, and the elderly are never defiled.

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A woman's mouth is always pure; fruit dropped by birds is pure; / a calf is pure at the flowing of milk; a dog is pure in the seizing of deer.

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In water, that which is in the water is pure; on dry land, that which is born of dry land is pure; / and one's two feet should be placed right there; having sipped water, one attains purity.

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A bell-metal vessel is purified with ash if it is not smeared with liquor; / [if] mixed with urine or liquor, it is truly purified by heating.

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Bell-metal vessels smelled by cows, and those that have śūdra leavings, / or those struck by crows and dogs, are purified with ten [applications of] ash.

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He who eats from a śūdra's dish [should take] pañcagavya after fasting for three days; / a brāhmaṇa who touches leavings, or a dog, or a śūdra, is more culpable.

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Having fasted, he is purified by pañcagavya after touching a menstruating woman. / In waterless regions, or on a path filled with thieves and tigers,

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having evacuated urine or feces with articles in hand, one is not defiled; / having set that article down on the ground and performed purification with a concentrated mind,

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fermented rice-water, curd, milk, buttermilk, and kṛsara / may be accepted even from a śūdra; likewise meat and honey from an outcaste.

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If a brāhmaṇa or other drinks liquor—molasses-derived, grain-derived, or madhūka-derived— / the twice-born is purified drinking liquor when drinking fire-colored [boiling] liquor.

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A brāhmaṇa must recite five hundred [Gāyatrīs], and a hundred of the Gāyatrī for a kṣatriya, / if a brāhmaṇa eats food or [drinks] from a drinking cup during birth-impurity.

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A brāhmaṇa is pure in ten days, a kṣatriya from twelve days, / a vaiśya in fifteen days, and a śūdra is purified in a month.

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For kings in battles, in sacrifices and the like, and for those who have gone to another land, / and when a young child or one less than a month old dies, immediate purification is prescribed.

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Likewise an unmarried girl, a twice-born without the muñja grass girdle, / a child whose teeth have appeared, and a three-year-old maiden:

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their purification is in three nights; in miscarriage, by three nights; / for a woman who has given birth, [the days of impurity] equal [the months of gestation]; and a menstruating woman [becomes pure] on the fourth day.

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During a famine, an invasion of the realm, in birth-impurity, or in death-impurity, / observances are not violated, nor are those devoted to the duty of giving.

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At the time of giving fees, in a marriage and the like, when gods and twice-born are invited, / or when an intention has already been made, there is no impurity regarding birth or death.

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From contact with a woman in childbirth, a twice-born would likewise become impure. / Where the fires are offered into, or where the Veda is recited,

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[and] the daily Vaiśvadeva [rites] and others [are held], there is no birth-impurity for them. / Having eaten in an impure house, a twice-born becomes pure after three nights.

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A Brāhmaṇa, Kṣatriya, Vaiśya, and Śūdra woman during menstruation— / through mutually touching one another there, the Brāhmaṇa woman [is purified] after three nights,

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the Kṣatriya woman after two nights, the Vaiśya woman is purified by fasting, / and the Śūdra woman would be purified by a bath; one should not discard more than a droṇa [of food touched by them].

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Food approached by a crow or a dog—one should abandon the outer part; / having sprinkled it with gold-water, one should heat it over the sacrificial fire.

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Having seen a dog, a jackal, or a monkey fallen into a well, / after drinking the water of that well, a twice-born would be purified in three days, / a Kṣatriya in two days, and a Vaiśya after one day.

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If bone, skin, excrement, or a mouse [is taken] from a well, / then having drawn out the water, it would become purified and clean through the five products of the cow.

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Likewise, if one casts ashes or the like into a tank, a lotus pool, or elsewhere, / having drawn out six jars of water, it is purified with the five products of the cow.

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If menstrual blood has fallen into the midst, one should draw out thirty jars. / Having had intercourse with forbidden women, or having consumed liquor or beef,

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a twice-born would be purified by the cāndrāyaṇa penance, a king by the prājāpatya, / a Vaiśya by the sāntapana, and a Śūdra is fully purified in five days.

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When the penance is completed, he should give cows and a meal for Brāhmaṇas. / In sports, on bedding, and the like, an indigo-dyed cloth brings no defilement.

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One should not touch indigo-dyed cloth, and [a user of] indigo goes to hell. / The slayer of a Brāhmaṇa, the drinker of liquor, the thief, and the violator of the guru's bed,

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together with a fifth who associates with them, are purified on seeing the Great Bear; / then he should give a hundred cows and a feast for Brāhmaṇas.

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A slayer of a Brāhmaṇa should build a hut and dwell in the forest for twelve years, / or a liquor-drinker should throw himself into a well-kindled fire.

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A thief should surrender all [his property] to a Brāhmaṇa who knows the Veda. / And a violator of the guru's bed should give a bull and a thousand cows.

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Having committed a sin in tethering, he should perform two quarter-penances while restraining a beast. / A complete kṛcchra penance is [prescribed] when [an animal falls into] a water trough, in a forest, or from the burning of a house.

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When a cow dies through the fault of a neck ornament, a quarter-kṛcchra is [prescribed]. / Having broken a bone of cows, or broken a horn,

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or in the piercing of the hide or the destruction of the tail, he should drink barley gruel for half a month. / For all [harm caused] by elephants, horses, weapons, and the like, a kṛcchra is certainly [prescribed].

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Having unwittingly consumed feces, urine, or whatever has been touched by liquor, / the three twice-born castes undergo a renewed sacrament.

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Tonsure, the girdle, the staff, begging alms, and the observances / are omitted for the twice-born in the rite of renewed sacrament.

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Raw meat, ghee, honey, and oils produced over time, / even if placed in an outcaste's vessel, are all traditionally declared pure once brought out.

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Oil and the like, ghee, liquor made from madhūka flowers, merchandise, and liquid: / eating once a day, in the evening, eating unasked, each for one day in order, / and fasting—that is a pāda-kṛcchra; and what is twice a half-kṛcchra

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would be the prājāpatya penance, destroying all sins. / A kṛcchra with seven fasts is known as the mahāsāntapana.

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He should drink hot water for three days, hot milk for three days, / and hot clarified butter for three days; that is the tapta-kṛcchra, which removes sin.

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Through a fast of twelve days, the parāka removes all sins. / He should increase by one morsel [daily] during the light fortnight, and decrease it during the dark fortnight.

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The milk of a gold-colored cow, the dung of a white-colored cow, / the urine of a copper-colored cow, the ghee from a black-colored cow,

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and the curd should be of a black-colored cow, mixed with kuśa-grass water: / eight māṣakas of cow's urine, four of cow dung,

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twelve of milk are prescribed, and ten of curd are stated, / and five māṣakas of ghee—this is the five products of the cow, which removes impurities.

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Thus ends the two hundred and twenty-second chapter, titled “The Description of Expiations,” in the section on conduct, in the first portion of the first section in the glorious and great Garuḍa Purāṇa.

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