Upnishad

SR No.: 007670
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 1835
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 35 MB

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VISHNU.
LI, 47.
food of a cat, of a crow, of an ichneumon, or of a rat, he must drink water in which the Brahmasuvarkalâ plant has been boiled.
47. For eating (unawares) what has been left by a dog, he must fast for one day, and drink Pañkagavya (afterwards).
48. For tasting (knowingly) the excrements of five-toed animals (excepting human excrements), he must (fast) for seven days (and drink Pañkagavya on the eighth).
49. If one (not a student) eats (unawares) of a Srâddha repast consisting of raw food, he must subsist on milk for seven days.
50. If a Brahmana eats what has been left by a Sûdra, (he must also subsist on milk) for seven days.
51. If he eats what has been left by a Vaisya, (he must subsist upon milk) for five days.
52. If he eats what has been left by a Kshatriya, (he must subsist upon milk) for three days.
53. If he eats what has been left by another Brahmana, (he must subsist upon milk) for one day.
54. If a Kshatriya eats what has been left by a Sûdra, (he must undergo the same penance) for five days.
55. If he eats what has been left by a Vaisya, (he must undergo it) for three days;
56. And so must a Vaisya, if he eats what has been left by a Sûdra.
50. Nand. explains that he should drink Pañkagavya alternately with milk. This explanation extends to the following Sûtras also (up to Sutra 56). He further argues from another Smriti text that the term Sûdra means 'Sûdras and women' here.
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