Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 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 Brahmasuvarkala plant has been boiled.
47. For eating (unawares) what has been left by a dog, he must fast for one day, and drink Pankagavya (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 Sraddha repast consisting of raw food, he must subsist on milk for seven days.
50. If a Brâhmana eats what has been left by a Sudra, (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 Brâhmana, (he must subsist upon milk) for one day.
54. If a Kshatriya eats what has been left by a Sudra, (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 Sudra.
50. Nand. explains that he should drink Pañkagavya alternately with milk. This explanation extends to the following Sätras also (up to Sätra 56). He further argues from another Smriti text that the term Sadra means 'Sadras and women' here.
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