Dhammapada

SR No.: 007674
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2540
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

Page 1945

I, 5, 11.
IMPURITY.
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36. On touching one who sells the Veda, a sacrificial post, an outcast, a funeral pile, a dog, or a Kandala he shall bathe.
37. Now if a worm is produced in an open wound that is filled with pus and sanies, how shall, in that case, a penance be performed ?
38. He who is bitten by a worm will become pure on bathing (daily) during three days and drinking (a mixture of) cow's urine, cowdung, milk, sour milk, butter, and water boiled with Kusa grass.
39. He who has been touched by a dog shall bathe dressed in his clothes ;
40. Or he becomes pure by washing that spot (where he has been touched), by touching it with fire, by (afterwards) again washing it and his feet, and by sipping water.
41. Now they quote also (the following verses): 'But a Brâhmana who has been bitten by a dog, is purified if he goes to a river that flows into the ocean, (bathes there and) suppresses his breath one hundred times and (afterwards) eats clarified butter. He will (also) become pure at once on bathing (in water brought) in golden or silver (vessels), or in a cow's horn, or in new (earthen pots).'
36. This verse, which is another version of I, 5, 9, 5, is left out in the Dekhan and Gugarât MSS.; I consider its genuineness very doubtful.
37. Vasishtha XVIII, 16.
39–40. Âpastamba I, 5, 15, 16–17. Govinda, too, states that the second mode of purification is to be adopted, if the dog touches any part of the body below the navel.
41. Vasishtha XXIII, 31.
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