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XXI, 1.
consecrated for the sake of purification (must be performed) in the case of all minor offences (upapâtakas).
CHAPTER XXI.
1. The murderer of a Brâhmana, he who drinks spirituous liquor, the violator of a Guru's bed, he who has connection with the female relatives of his mother and of his father (within six degrees) or with sisters and their female offspring, he who steals (the gold of a Brahmana), an atheist, he who constantly repeats blamable acts, he who does not cast off persons guilty of a crime causing loss of caste, and he who forsakes blameless (relatives), become outcasts,
2. Likewise those who instigate others to acts causing loss of caste,
3. And he who for a (whole) year associates with outcasts.
4. To be an outcast means to be deprived of the right to follow the lawful occupations of twiceborn men,
5. And to be deprived after death of the rewards of meritorious deeds.
water consecrated by the formulas, "Cleansed is the earth," &c.'Haradatta.
XXI. 1. Âpastamba I, 7, 21, 7-9, 11; I, 9, 24, 6-9; Manu XI, 35; Yâgйavalkya III, 227. Guru, i. e. a father or spiritual teacher. The term yonisambandha, 'sisters and their female offspring,' seems to be used here in a sense different from that which it has III, 3; XIV, 20; and XIX, 20. It may possibly include also daughtersin-law.
2. Âpastamba II, 11, 29, 1.
3. Manu IX, 181; Yâgñavalkya III, 261.
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