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IV, 2.
PENANCES.
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For the gods are trebly true. (All that) has been declared in the Veda.
12. He who considers himself defiled by minor offences (upapataka), will be freed from all guilt if he offers burnt oblations according to this same rule;
13. Or if he has partaken of food unfit to be eaten or to be drunk or of forbidden food, and if he has committed sinful acts or performed sinful rites either unintentionally or intentionally, and if he has had connexion with a female of the Sudra caste or committed an unnatural crime, he becomes pure by bathing (and reciting) the Ablinga (verses) and (those called) Vârunis.
14. Now they quote also (the following verse): *If he has partaken of food unfit to be eaten or to be drunk, or of forbidden food, and if he has committed forbidden acts or performed forbidden rites, he will, nevertheless, be freed from (crimes) committed intentionally which are similar to mortal sins, nay, even from mortal sins (pâtaka).'
15. Or let him fast during three (days and) nights, bathe thrice a day, and, suppressing his breath, thrice recite the Aghamarshana. Manu has declared that that is equal (in efficacy) to the final bath at a horse-sacrifice.
12. Gautama XXV, 6.
13. Govinda gives, like Haradatta on Gautama XXV, 7, as an instance of a doshavat karma, a sinful rite,' the abhikâra or 'magic rite in order to harm enemies.' The expression has, however, in our Sætra, a wider sense.
14. I. e. if he performs the penance prescribed in the preceding Sutra.
15. Vasishtha XXVI, 8; Gautama XXIV, 10.
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| SR No. | 007674 |
| Book Title | Dhammapada |
| 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 |