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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LIV, 7.
PENANCES.
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must perform that penance which has been prescribed for an adulterer.
9. That guilt which a Brâhmana incurs by intercourse with a Kandala woman one night, he can only remove by subsisting upon alms, and constantly repeating (the Gâyatri) for three years.
LIV. 1. If a man associates with one guilty of a crime, he must perform the same penance as he.
2. A Brâhmana who has drunk water from a well in which a five-toed animal has perished, or which has been defiled in the highest degree, must fast for three days.
3. A Kshatriya (must fast) for two days (in the same case).
4. A Vaisya (must fast) for one day (and one night).
5. A Sûdra (must fast) for a night only.
6. And all the former, but not a Sudra) must drink Pankagavya, when their penance has been completed.
7. If a Sûdra drinks Pañkagavya, or if a Brâhmana drinks spirituous liquor, they both go to the hell called Mahâraurava 1.
LIV. 1. M. XI, 182. - 10. M. XI, 203. - II. M. II, 220 ; Apast. II, 5, 12, 22; Gaut. XXIII, 21. — 12. M. XI, 200; Y. III, 277; Gaut. XXIII, 7. — 23. M. XI, 202; Y. III, 291. - 24. M. XI, 195; Y. III, 290. - 25. M. XI, 198; Y. III, 289. - 26. M. XI, I92.– 27. M. XI, 193.– 28. M. XI, 294.– 29. M. XI, 204. - 30. M. XI, 209; Y. III, 293. — 31. M. XI, 190. — 32. M. XI, 191; Y. III, 299. — 34. M. XI, 210; Y. III, 294.
7. See XLIII, 5. Nand. infers from an anonymous Smriti passage, that the first part of this Sätra refers not only to Sudras, but to women also, and not only to the drinking of Pañkagavya,
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