History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.1016

v5.c75.1016

Śūdra, see under 'saṁskāras', could drink any kind of intoxicant without incurring sin 21, could not drink pañcagavya in early times, though allowed to drink without mantras in medieval works 142, disability of a śūdra who does not wait upon or serve a dvija 50, how to perform japa for removal of sin 49; homa could be performed for, in ordinary fire through a brāhmaṇa, acc. to some digests 78, prāyaścitta for killing a crow, haṁsa, dog or the like same as for killing a śūdra 110, prāyaścitta for, was only 1/4th of that for a brāhmaṇa sinner, except as to offences of violence against a dvija 81