History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.398

v4.c63.398

⁵⁸⁰ अस्पृश्याधमदासानां म्लेच्छानां पापकारिणाम् । प्रातिलोम्यप्रसूतानां निश्चयो न तु राजनि । तत्प्रसिद्धानि दिव्यानि संशये तेषु निर्दिशेत् ॥ कात्या. q. by मिता. on या. II. 99, स्मृतित० II. p. 104, परा. मा. III. p. 161; ‘तत्प्रसिद्धानि सर्पघटादीनि’ व्यवहारतत्त्व p. 579; व्य. प्र. 180 ‘तत्प्रसिद्धानि सर्पघटादीनि इति स्मृतितत्त्वे’. In the Gadag Inscription of Vikramāditya VI dated 1098 A. D. (E. I. vol. 15 p. 348 at p. 360 there is this passage ‘*we handle boiling water, we strike with the hand a great snake placed in a jar or we may well mount the balance*’. In I. A. vol. 19 p. 242 at p. 246 it is stated in an inscription dated 1208 A. D. of the Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Kārtavīrya IV that Candrikā (or Candaladevī), the queen of Lakṣmīdhara of the Raṭṭas of Sugandhavarti (Saundatti) was a pativratā and got success by *ghaṭasarpa* ‘भाति श्लाघ्यगुणा पतिव्रततया देवी चिरं चन्द्रिका संप्राप्ता घटसर्पजातविजयं लक्ष्मीधरप्रेयसी’. The Bombay Gazetteer vol. I part 2. p. 556 n. 5 gives a quotation from the Asiatic Researches vol. I. where the ordeal of putting a ring or coin in a vessel in which a snake has been already placed and asking a person to take it out is mentioned. Vide also Report of South Indian Epigraphy for 1924 para 66 for the ordeal of dipping the fingers in boiling ghee or oil.