History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.950

v5.c75.950

Sins, are removed not by prāyaścitta alone but also by confession to others, gifts, meditation on God 50; bodily sins 173; difference in punishments or expiation based on intention or absence of it or on repetition 17; divergence among sūtras as to classification of 12; five classes of, acc. to Kātyāyana 14, f. c. enumerated in Chāndogya Upaniṣad 12,16; homas and mantras may purify a man from sins that have not become public 125; many s. are punishable by the king as crimes, though penances are provided for them 65; mental sins 173; nine classes of, acc. to Viṣṇu Dh. S 15, redemption of, by monetary payments or bequests of property to churches in Christian belief 52n; supposed to be centred in the hair 122, 574; three classes of, acc to Baud. Dh. S. 13; three classes of, acc to Manu 173, three kinds of viz. bodily, in words and mental 173; classes of, acc to Āp. Dh. S. 12, two kinds of, viz. intentionally committed and unintentionally committed 61; unintentionally committed s. are destroyed by repeating Vedic texts 63; views differed as to whether all sins committed in past lives are destroyed by entering Kāśī or whether only those of the present life 638; vocal sins 173; which diseases arise as the results of which sins 173