History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.1190

v5.c75.1190

Water, all deities are centred in waters 553, at a prapā or from a jar placed near a well or from a leather bag, should not ordinarily be drunk except in distress 325, difference of opinion as to the number of handfuls of water to be offered after cremation, viz. 10, 55 or 100, 218-219; duty of sapiṇḍas and samānodakas to offer water to deceased 221, held to be a great purifier even so early as the R̥gveda 321, hymns and verses in the R̥gveda addressed to waters as divinities 321, 555, invoked for carrying off sin 7, 555, mixed with gold over which the Gāyatrī verse had been recited employed as purification of cooked food 328, no pollution recognized in large reservoirs 324, number of handfuls of water to be offered to deceased depended upon the usage of the country or on caste 219, offered to a deceased person after cremation by any or all sapindas 218-220, of a flowing river, spring and deep tank is always pure 322-323, w. and mud on roads, though trodden by low castes, dogs and crows become pure by the wind and sun 323-324, person could, if he chose, offer water to his deceased married sister or daughter or to a friend, to father-in-law on their death 221, procedure of offering water to deceased 219, purification of 322-323, purification of, is brought about by the sun, moon and wind and by means of the urine and dung of cows 324, rain water deemed to be impure for ten days 324, symbolic dialogue between person offering water to deceased and that person's relatives or brother-in-law or with a king's officer, 221-222, should be sipped or touched when a man engaged in religious rites hears a mantra addressed to pitṛs, scratches his body, looks at a low caste man, or allows wind to escape from his abdomen, laughs loudly or utters an untruth, touches a cat or a mouse, uses harsh words or has a fit of anger 321, what water is deemed to be pure 322-23