Local Government in Ancient India c13.58

c13.58

(*e*) Those who are themselves disqualified but do not transmit their disqualification to their relatives. This class includes those who have (1) taken forbidden food of any kind [which is equivalent to drinking intoxicating liquor according to Manu (XI. 57)]; (2) committed sins [notably those specified in (*b*) above]; (3) become village pests; and (4) committed incest; and even though they may, by the proper performance of the necessary expiatory ceremonies, prevent the transmission of their own disabilities to their relatives, they will themselves remain disqualified. Expiatory ceremonies might remove religious but not civic and political disabilities of persons guilty of grave offences, social, political, and moral.