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III, 55.
PURIFICATION.
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46. 'A vendible commodity tendered for sale and what is not dirtied by gnats and flies that have settled on it,'
47. 'Likewise water collected on the ground that quenches the thirst of cows,—enumerating all these things, the Lord of created beings has declared them to be pure.
48. Anything defiled by unclean (substances) becomes pure when the stains and the smell have been removed by water and earth.
49. (Objects) made of metal must be scoured with ashes, those made of clay should be thoroughly heated by fire, those made of wood should be planed, and (cloth) made of thread should be washed.
50. Stones and gems (should be treated) like objects made of metal,
51. Conch-shells and pearl-shells like gems, 52. (Objects made of) bone like wood,
53. Ropes, chips (of bamboo), and leather become pure (if treated) like clothes,
54. (Objects) made.of fruits, (if rubbed) with a brush of) cow-hair,
55. Linen cloth, (if smeared) with a paste of yellow mustard (and washed afterwards with water).
46. Manu V, 129.
47. Vishnu XXIII, 43. 48. Gautama I, 42. For the explanation of the term amedhya, unclean substances,' see Manu V, 135, and the passage from Devala translated in Professor Jolly's note on Vishnu XXIII, 38.
49. Gautama I, 29; Vishnu XXIII, 26, 33, 27, 18. 50-51. Gautama I, 30. 52. Gautama I, 31 and note; Vishnu XXIII, 4. 53. Gautama I, 33.
54. Vishnu XXIII, 28. Cups and bottles made of the shell of the cocoa-nut or of the Bilva (Bel) fruit and of bottle-gourds are meant,
55. Vishnu XXIII, 22.
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