Skandapurana 5.199

Viśvāmitra said: / Then, when morning had arrived and the orb of the sun had risen, / that daughter of the great-souled Dīkṣita,

weeping piteously, went to her father and mother / and, with eyes overflowing with tears, spoke in a choked voice:

“Father! Mother! What is this sin performed by the two of you, / that I was given to an outcast, to an evil, wicked soul?

He fled at the beginning of the night after revealing his family to me. / Therefore, I shall enter the kindled fire.”

Hearing her words, the Dīkṣita Subhadra / fell motionless to the earth like a tree broken by the wind.

Then, sprinkled again and again with cold water, / surrounded by his kinsmen, he quickly regained consciousness with difficulty / and, beating his own head repeatedly, uttered various laments.

Then all those brahmins, defiled by contact with him, / approached Bhartṛyajña and, accompanied by him,

together with his daughter, spoke aloud with humility: / “Having given his daughter, Subhadra settled [a man] in his mansion.

Here [was] a caṇḍāla in the guise of a twice-born, known as Candraprabha.

He was employed in rites for gods and ancestors for a year and a half. / That worker of sin was not recognized; he has now been exposed.

Through association with Subhadra, the entire place has been defiled / by the outcast, O fortunate one; therefore, decree a restrainment.

By some food was eaten in his house, and water was drunk by others; / and by others, having brought him to their house, food was likewise given.

What need of many words to you? There is no one, O best of the twice-born, / for whom mixture did not occur, born from that sin.

Formerly this sacred place was established by you, O high-minded one, / and you indeed are the guru of all; therefore, tell us the purification.”

Then, having pondered over many codes of law for a long time, / he prescribed the penance for all those twice-born:

He prescribed a hundred cāndrāyaṇas for Subhadra, who maintains sacred fires, / the discarding of all vessels, and the reconsecration of the sacred fires;

and the performance of a hundred thousand oblations for the purification of the inside of the house; / entering the fire was prescribed for that daughter of his.

As many meals as were eaten by anyone in his house, / so many kṛcchra penances were declared for him by that great soul.

As many drinks of water as were drunk by people in his house, / so many prājāpatya penances were assigned to them, O king.

And for other brahmins residing in that place, / who were defiled by his touch, an individual prājāpatya [was assigned] for each.

Half of that was for women and śūdras, and half of that for children and the aged; / and the discarding of earthenware vessels was declared.

Likewise, the abandonment of flavored liquids for all people; / and ten million oblations were prescribed in the brahmasthāna as laid down, / solely with the resources of the settlement, for the purification of the whole place.

Then, having raised his arm, he spoke again to the brahmins, / in a loud and mighty voice, to all those born of the Nāgaras:

“And all his wealth must be given by Subhadra to the brahmins; / and a fourth part of their own wealth by those who ate in his house;

an eighth part by those who drank water; the gift of a cow for defilement by touch; / and a sacrificial fee according to capacity for the rest of the people.

A recitation of a hundred thousand Gāyatrīs must be performed by the Dīkṣita; / the entire recitation must be done by the rest of the brahmins according to their means.

And I myself shall perform three hundred breath-controls / every day, O best of the twice-born, eating only at the sixth mealtime,

until the end of a year; then purification will come to pass / for the defilement arising from contact with that wicked-souled person.”

Having spoken thus, he spoke further to the best of the twice-born, / to those residing in the brahmasthāna, with his face in their midst:

“From this day forward, any Nāgara who gives his daughter anywhere / without knowing [the groom to be] a Nāgara, he shall become fallen.

Indeed, he is unfit for śrāddha and unfit to sit in the row, especially among Nāgaras.

He who shall give a śrāddha to anyone else, leaving aside a Nāgara, / his ancestors, along with the gods, will turn their faces away from him.

A Nāgara who drinks soma without a Nāgara / will undoubtedly drink wine; / as also one who performs a śrāddha rite without his approval.”

Then everything of his will become useless; of this there is no doubt. / But whoever feeds a Nāgara devoid of purification,

at his ancestral rite too, all that will go in vain. / And this rule has been established by me for all Nāgaras.

Therefore, purification must be performed with every effort by the best of the twice-born / every year that arrives, for the purification of one's own standing.

Viśvāmitra said: / All this has been related to you as I was asked, O best of kings, / by which the Nāgaras are determined as worthy of ancestral rites among the Nāgaras, / just as their rule was established by Bhartṛyajña long ago.

Thus ends the two-hundredth chapter, entitled 'The Description of the Community Rule of the Nāgaras Established by Bhartṛyajña,' in the glorification of Hāṭakeśvara sacred field, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [part] in the eighty-one-thousand-[verse] collection of the glorious Skandapurāṇa.