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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. ### [1.222.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.2) 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. ### [1.222.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.3) 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. ### [1.222.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.4) 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, ### [1.222.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.5) 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. ### [1.222.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.6) Water contained inside leather is impure; one should not drink it. / In whose house an unknown outcaste dwells: ### [1.222.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.7) 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. ### [1.222.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.8) 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. ### [1.222.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.9) 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. ### [1.222.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.10) 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. ### [1.222.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.11) 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. ### [1.222.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.12) 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. ### [1.222.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.13) 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. ### [1.222.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.14) 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. ### [1.222.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.15) 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. ### [1.222.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.16) For having unintentionally approached such women, a parāka is effective there; / for one who is begotten upon an outcaste caste, there is no penance. ### [1.222.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.17) 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. ### [1.222.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.18) 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, ### [1.222.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.19) should be made to perform three kṛcchras and three cāndrāyaṇas indeed, / along with the birth-rite and other sacraments: so said the sage Vasiṣṭha. ### [1.222.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.20) 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, ### [1.222.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.21) having fasted for one night, is purified by pañcagavya; / but when touched by an outcaste beyond the classes, \[he is purified\] in five nights. ### [1.222.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.22) Continuous streams \[of water\] are not polluted, nor dust blown by the wind; / women, children, and the elderly are never defiled. ### [1.222.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.23) 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. ### [1.222.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.24) 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. ### [1.222.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.25) 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. ### [1.222.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.26) 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. ### [1.222.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.27) 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. ### [1.222.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.28) Having fasted, he is purified by pañcagavya after touching a menstruating woman. / In waterless regions, or on a path filled with thieves and tigers, ### [1.222.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.29) 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, ### [1.222.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.30) fermented rice-water, curd, milk, buttermilk, and kṛsara / may be accepted even from a śūdra; likewise meat and honey from an outcaste. ### [1.222.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.31) 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. ### [1.222.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.32) 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. ### [1.222.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.33) 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. ### [1.222.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.34) 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. ### [1.222.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.35) Likewise an unmarried girl, a twice-born without the muñja grass girdle, / a child whose teeth have appeared, and a three-year-old maiden: ### [1.222.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.36) 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. ### [1.222.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.37) 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. ### [1.222.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.38) 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. ### [1.222.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.39) 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, ### [1.222.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.40) \[and\] 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. ### [1.222.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.41) A Brāhmaṇa, Kṣatriya, Vaiśya, and Śūdra woman during menstruation— / through mutually touching one another there, the Brāhmaṇa woman \[is purified\] after three nights, ### [1.222.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.42) 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 \[of food touched by them\]. ### [1.222.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.43) 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. ### [1.222.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.44) 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. ### [1.222.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.45) 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. ### [1.222.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.46) 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. ### [1.222.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.47) 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, ### [1.222.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.48) 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. ### [1.222.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.49) 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. ### [1.222.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.50) 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, ### [1.222.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.51) 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. ### [1.222.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.52) 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. ### [1.222.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.53) 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. ### [1.222.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.54) 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. ### [1.222.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.55) 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, ### [1.222.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.56) 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 \[prescribed\]. ### [1.222.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.57) Having unwittingly consumed feces, urine, or whatever has been touched by liquor, / the three twice-born castes undergo a renewed sacrament. ### [1.222.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.58) Tonsure, the girdle, the staff, begging alms, and the observances / are omitted for the twice-born in the rite of renewed sacrament. ### [1.222.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.59) 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. ### [1.222.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.60) 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 ### [1.222.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.61) would be the prājāpatya penance, destroying all sins. / A kṛcchra with seven fasts is known as the mahāsāntapana. ### [1.222.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.62) 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. ### [1.222.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.63) 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. ### [1.222.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.64) 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, ### [1.222.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.65) 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, ### [1.222.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.66) 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. ### [1.222.66.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222.66.p1) 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. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.222.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.222) · Pramāṇa