History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.164

v5.c75.164

Brāhmaṇa, āhitāgni may, if his wife dies, marry again and establish fresh sacred fires or remain a widower and perform his Agnihotra with an effigy of the dead wife made of gold or kuśa grass 225-226, all deities reside in b who knows the veda 488; becomes unfit for invitation at śrāddha by practising medicine, by teaching dancing or by going on the stage 14n, carrying the dead body of a person who is not a sapiṇḍa or carrying dead body of his mother's sapiṇḍas became pure after three days 289, could be liable to death as prāyaścitta for a heinous sin, though not as punishment 73; could perform as *pratinidhi* of women and śūdras *homa* in ordinary fire 78, one drinking surā intentionally had to undergo an expiation viz drinking boiling milk, cow-urine, water, which ended in death 96, expiation for threatening to beat or strike a b 96, fighting for saving a brāhmaṇa's life or for saving twelve cows as expiation for murder of b. 93, following the funeral procession of a brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya or vaiśya or śūdra had to undergo a bath and also āśauca and expiation in the last three cases 290, general rule that prāyaścitta for intentional murder of b. was to end in death 88, guilty of grave sins committed intentionally was to be banished but was allowed to take his wealth with him and if guilty of the same unintentionally to be punished with middle amercement 72; guilty of theft was to go to a king with an iron club and ask him to smash his head as punishment 73; invited for śrāddha should not refuse and after accepting invitation if he breaks the promise incurs sin 410, killing a b. woman is upapātaka except in two cases acc to Manu and Yāj 18, one killing one's own parent, brother, teacher of veda, or a brāhmaṇa who has studied the veda or kept vedic fires had to undergo expiation till death 94, Manu speaks of 13 prāyaścittas for murder of b. 88-93, Manu first prescribes twelve years of begging alms, carrying a bone in hand and on a staff 88, murder of, gravest of sins 10, not to be punished with death for any crime or sin but may be banished 31, prāyaścitta, extent of, when taken once for all for several murders of b 90, prāyaścitta for murder of a person who is a brāhmaṇa without vedic learning 93, rules about a b staying in the house of one dying or partaking of food there 289, should not violate, even when a knower of brahmavidyā, the injunction against eating unclean food when there is no distress or danger to life 100, three causes of a person being called a brāhmaṇa are *tapas*, vedic learning and birth from brāhmaṇa parents according to the Mahābhāṣya 400, twelve years *vrata* as prāyaścitta for unintentional brāhmaṇa murder 90, twenty-four years vrata for intentional b murder 90, vedic sacrifices of Aśvamedha, Gosava, Abhijit, Viśvajit or Agniṣṭut as expiation for murder of b. 91, weeping with the family of a deceased person who is not a sapiṇḍa or who belonged to another varṇa had to undergo varying periods of āśauca and purifications which depended on the fact whether he went before or after the collection of bones 290; b. whether could be killed in self-defence 19-20; who drinks surā prepared from raw sugar, flour and honey should undergo Taptakṛccha, Parāka and Cāndrāyaṇa respectively, acc to Bṛhaspati 97; who drinks any intoxicant (except surā prepared from flour) had to undergo light expiation 97, who has studied the veda and is affected with bodily defects (which ordinarily exclude him from a row of diners) is acc to Yama a *paṅktipāvana* 401, who remembers the Ṛgveda studied by him is not tainted by any guilt 47