History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.802

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Purity, see under 'bath,' 'śauca,' 'śuddhi', causes of, are time, fire, religious rites, clay, wind, mind, spiritual knowledge, expiations, water, repentance and fast 315, extremely exaggerated importance attached by medieval brāhmaṇas to ceremonial p. on births and death and led to such prescriptions as the one that if a śūdra, patita or mleccha died in a brāhmaṇa's house, the latter became impure for months 273, 282; great care taken for the purity or cleanliness of vessels used in sacrifices and of offerings in early vedic times 310, great emphasis laid by ancient and medieval Indians on p of mind, body, place where they resided or performed religious rites, of food 332, ground in a brāhmaṇa's house, in a temple and in cowpens is held to be endowed with p, unless it has been polluted 322, inner p. and the food that one eats 100, 332-333, Manu declares that mental purity is the highest of all kinds of p. 311, of the body effected by various means such as rinsing the mouth, bath 311, of sacrificer's body in śrauta rites was effected by the adhvaryu priest rubbing the sacrificer's body twice with three bunches of seven darbhas each 311