Markandeyapurana 35.16

35.16

lepādullekhanāt sekādveśmasaṃmārjanārcanāt /
keśakīṭāvapanne ca goghrāte makṣikānvite //

The ground is cleansed through time, by the rubbing of bodies, and the passage of cattle, by smearing, by digging, by watering, by houses, by sweeping and by worship.

Things infested with hair-lice, or sniffed at by cattle, or infested with ñies should be sprinkled with earth water and ashes to be cleansed, my son; things made of udumbara wood[2] with vinegar; tin and lead with salt. Brass things are cleaned with ashes and water; and the over-flows of fluids are pure. A thing soiled by ordure is cleaned with earth and water and by removing the smell; and other such-like things by removing the colour and smell.