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XLVI, 9.
PENANCES.
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29. The breaker of a vow of chastity, swelled legs;
30. One who deprives another of his subsistence, shall be poor;
31. One who injures another (without provocation), shall have an incurable illness.
32. Thus, according to their particular acts, are men born, marked by evil signs, sick, blind, humpbacked, halting, one-eyed;
33. Others as dwarfs, or deaf, or dumb, feeblebodied (eunuchs, whitlows, and others). Therefore must penances be performed by all means.
XLVI. 1. Now follow the penances, 2. Let a man fast for three days;
3. And let him perform each day the three ablutions (at dawn, noon, and sunset);
4. And let him, at every ablution, plunge into the water three times;
5. And let him mutter the Aghamarshana three times, after having plunged into the water; 6. During day-time let him be standing;
7. At night let him continue in a sitting position;
8. At the close of the ceremony let him give a milch cow (to a Brâhmana).
9. Thus has the penance Aghamarshana been described.
XLVI. 10, 11, 18, 19. M. XI, 212, 213, 215, 216.-10, 11, 13, 18–20, 22, 23. Y. III, 315-323. - 10. Apast. I, 9, 27, 7. — 10, 11, 13. Gaut. XXIII, 2; XXVI, 1-5, 20. — 24, 25. M. XI, 224,
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9. Nand. thinks that the word iti, thus,' has a double meaning
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