History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c53.s1.13

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²⁶⁷⁴ Vide note 333 above where Tai. S. (V. 3. 12. 1-2) is cited viz. तरति ब्रह्महत्यां योऽश्वमेधेन यजते; Śat. Br. XIII. 3. 1. 1 has the same words. According to Gaut. 22. 9, Āp. Dh. S. I. 9. 24. 22 and Manu IX. 82-83 if the murderer of a brāhmaṇa, after declaring his crime, bathed in water in which the king took his final avabhṛtha bath, he would be free from that sin. Prof. Eggeling (S.B.E. vol. 44 p. XL. note 1) does not advert to the fact that expiation for brāhmaṇa murder was thus prescribed by the dharmasūtras.