History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c71.s1.106

v5.c71.s1.106

These lapses described above from false accusation against the *guru*⁷⁴ (Yāj. III. 228 or Manu XI 55 to Yāj. III 233 or Manu XI 58) and said to be equal to some mahāpātaka or other are designated as pātakas by Vṛddha-Hārīta (IX. 216-17) and by the Mit. (on Yāj. III 233) and as *anupātakas* by the Viṣṇudharmasūtra (36.8). Gautama⁷⁵ (21.1-2) adds a few more to the list of pātakas or *patitas* viz. he who has connection with the female relatives of his mother or father or with sisters and their offspring, a thief of gold, an atheist, one who constantly repeats censured acts, one who does not cast away a *patita* or who abandons blameless relatives or those who instigate others to commit pātakas. These pātakas are less than mahāpātakas in their culpability and greater than upapātakas.