History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s7.6.2

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grave sins (*pataniyā*), such as theft, the murder of a Brāhmaṇa or other man, causing abortion, incest, drinking wine etc; other sins are not so grave, though they make the perpetrator impure; discussion of some metaphysical questions such as the knowledge of the soul, *brahma*, the moral faults that lead to perdition such as rage, avarice, hypocrisy &c; the virtues that lead to the highest good, such as absence of anger or avarice &c, truthfulness, tranquility; compensation for killing a Kṣatriya, Vaiśya, a Śūdra and women; *prāyaścitta* for killing a Brāhmaṇa and an Ātreyī Brāhmaṇa woman, for killing a *guru* or a Śrotriya; prāyaścitta for violating the bed of a *guru*, for drinking wine and for theft of gold; prāyaścittas for killing several birds, cows and bulls, and for abusing those who should not be abused, for sexual intercourse with a Śūdra woman, for taking forbidden food and drink &c.; rules about Kṛcchra for twelve nights, what constitutes theft; how one should act towards a fallen (*patita*) *guru* and mother; various opinions about prāyaścitta for violating *guru's* bed, prāyaścitta for a husband who has intercourse with another woman and for wife's adultery; prāyaścitta for killing a *Bhrūṇa* (a learned brāhmaṇa); Brāhmaṇa was not to wield arms, except in self-defence against bodily injury; prāyaścitta for *abhiśasta*; prāyaścittas for lesser sins: various views about *snātaka* (Vidyāsnātaka, Vratasnātaka and Vidyāvratasnātaka);