History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s21.23.4

v1.c6.s21.23.4

how *yogin* attains immortality ; three kinds of actions due to *sattva*, *rajas* and *tamas* ; means of *ātmajñāna* ; the two paths, one to immortality and the other to heaven ; the various diseases from which sinners suffer ; purpose of prāyaścittas ; names of 21 hells ; the five mortal sins, and other acts similar to them ; upapātakas ; prāyaścittas for Brāhmaṇa murder or for killing other persons ; prāyaścittas for drinking wine, for other mortal and venial sins and for killing animals of various sorts ; greater or lesser expiation according to time, place, age, ability ; ostracising the non-conformist sinner ; secret expiations; ten *yamas* and *niyamas*; Sāntapana, mahāsāntapana, taptakṛcchra, parāka, cāndrāyaṇa and other expiations ; rewards of reading this smṛti.