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## The Jain Code of Conduct for Purification
**Trivarnika Achar**
**Chapter 275**
A person who kills aquatic animals, land animals, birds, rats, squirrels, dogs, etc. in their own home, must purify themselves by observing twelve days of fasting, sixteen days of one-meal-a-day, sixteen baths, and giving cows and other deserving recipients gifts as much as they are able, according to the instructions of their Guru. (101-102)
A person who kills cows, buffaloes, or goats must observe twenty-three days of fasting, one hundred days of one-meal-a-day, and give gifts as much as they are able. (103)
A person who kills a human being must observe three hundred days of fasting, give cows and other deserving recipients gifts, and perform pilgrimages as much as they are able. (104)
If a person dies due to poison or other harmful substances, or due to hunger, or if a servant dies due to hunger, or if a human or animal dies due to being brought into the house, or if someone dies while digging a well or pond, or if a servant dies while carrying the master's belongings, or if someone dies due to a wall falling, or if a woman dies due to fire, or if someone comes into contact with a butcher and engages in business transactions with them, then they must observe five days of fasting, give a cow, observe fifty-two days of one-meal-a-day, perform a puja for the Sangha, give gifts of compassion, offer flowers, and engage in japa (chanting). (105-108)
If a clay pot used for cooking or fetching water comes into contact with a person of a different caste, it should be discarded. If copper, brass, or iron pots come into contact with a person of a different caste, they can be purified by washing them with pure ash. Brass pots can be purified by washing them with fire. Wooden pots cannot be purified. It is better to use copper, brass, or iron pots that have not come into contact with people of different castes. (109-110)