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birth, will suffer dreadful (punishment in) hell and be born again in the womb of an animal.'
31. 'A twice-born man who eats by appointment in the house of a stranger whose ten days of impurity, caused by a death, have not expired, after death will become a worm and feed on the ordure of that (man who fed him).'
32. It has been declared in the Veda, '(Such a sinner) becomes pure by reciting the Samhità of the Veda for twelve months or for twelve halfmonths while fasting.'
33. On the death of a child of less than two years or on a miscarriage, the impurity of the Sapindas lasts three (days and) nights.
34. Gautama (declares that on the former occasion they become) pure at once.
35. If a person) dies in a foreign country and (his Sapindas) hear (of his death) after ten days (or a longer period), the impurity lasts for one (day and night.
36. Gautama (declares that) if a person who has kindled the sacred fire dies on a journey, (his Sapindas shall) again celebrate his obsequies, (burning a dummy made of leaves or straw), and remain impure (during ten days) as if (they had actually buried) his corpse.
37. When he has touched a sacrificial post, a pyre, a burial-ground, a menstruating or a lately confined woman, impure men or (Kandalas and so forth), he shall bathe, submerging both his body and his head.
32. Regarding the penance prescribed here, the so-called anasnatpârâyana, see below XX, 46, and Baudhayana III, 9.
33. Vishnu XXII, 27-30. 34. Gautama XIV, 44, and introduction to Gautama, p. liii. 36. Introduction to Gautama, pp. liii and liv. 37. Vishnu XXII, 69. Krishnapandita and MS. B. read pûya,
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