History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.369

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Gaut 14. 29, Manu V. 103, Yāj. III. 26, Parāśara III. 42 prescribe that a brāhmaṇa should not follow the funeral procession of a deceased brāhmaṇa, but if he does so, he has to bathe, touch fire, take in ghee and then he becomes pure. Parāśara III. 43-46 and Kūrmapurāṇa (Uttarārdha 23 45) provide a rising scale of the days of āśauca if a brāhmaṇa follows the corpse of a kṣatriya (āśauca for one day and pañcagavya), a vaiśya (āśauca for two days and six prāṇāyāmas), a śūdra (āśauca for three days, bath in a river going to the sea, 100 prāṇāyāmas ⁶⁴⁹ and drinking of ghee) Vide Trimśac-chloki verse 13.