Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.63

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unclean deed; women are redeemed from such-like deeds by making earnest endeavour (yatta, according to Nil., making abstention in food and pleasure) for a year. But he who carries out the ‘great vow’,¹ and gives away even all his possessions, or for the sake of the teacher is killed in battle, sets himself free of his unclean deed” (xii, 35.20 ff.). “The evil-begotten, evil-minded man that violates his master’s marriage-bed is made clean by clasping a glowing statue with the shape of a woman, and so meeting death. Or let him take his penis and testicles² himself into his hand, and go straight off into the region of the Nirṛiti (to the south-east) till he falls down (dead), or else give up his life on behalf of a Brahman; thereby he becomes clean.³ Or he receives honour here and after death,