History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c71.s1.75

v5.c71.s1.75

The Mit points out (on Yāj III. 253) that the prohibition against drinking surā applies to boys who have not yet been invested with the sacred thread and also to unmarried girls, since Manu XI 93 makes no distinction of sex but only forbids to the three first castes the drinking of surā and since the Bhaviṣyapurāṇa⁴⁹ expressly forbids to a brāhmaṇa female the drinking of *surā* The Kalpataru appears to have held otherwise. But a woman and a minor had to undergo lesser prāyaścitta as will be shown below. Vas 21 11 and Yāj III 256 state that the wife of a brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya or vaiśya who drinks surā (made from flour) would not reach the worlds of her husband and she would become in this world a bitch or a sow⁵⁰ The Mit. remarks⁵¹ on this verse that though a śūdra is not forbidden to drink surā even the śūdra wife of a brāhmaṇa should not drink surā