History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.395

v5.c72.395

The Saḍaśīti (verse 22) provides⁶⁶² that the rule about purification on the expiry of the first āśauca in the case of succeeding āśaucas on birth or death has three exceptions, viz. a woman who is delivered of a child, the person who actually cremates the body (of the deceased) and the sons of the deceased; that is, a *sūtikā* has to observe the proper period of untouchability and one who cremates a dead body has to observe āśauca for ten days, though the delivery or cremation takes place in the midst of an āśauca on death.