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VASISHTHA.
XI, 69.
69. A Kshatriya placing (the word) Lady' in the middle,
70. A Vaisya placing (the word) 'Lady' at the end (of the formula).
71. The time (for the initiation) of a Brâhmana has not passed until the completion of the sixteenth year,
72. (For that) of a Kshatriya until the completion of the twenty-second,
73. (For that) of a Vaisya until the completion of the twenty-fourth.
74. After that they become 'men whose Savitri has been neglected.'
75. Let him not initiate such men, nor teach them, nor sacrifice for them; let them not form matrimonial alliances (with such outcasts).
76. A man whose Såvitrt has not been performed, may undergo the Uddâlaka-penance.
77. Let him subsist during two months on barleygruel, during one month on milk, during half a month on curds of two-milk whey, during eight days on clarified butter, during six days on alms given without asking, (and) during three days on water, and let him fast for one day and one night.
78. (Or) he may go to bathe (with the priests) at the end of an Asvamedha (horse-sacrifice).
79. Or he may offer a Vrâtya-stoma.
71-73. Vishnu XXVII, 26.
74. Vishnu XXVII, 27. Sâvitrî, literally the Rik sacred to Savitri' (Rig-veda III, 62, 10), means here the initiation,' see Gautama I, 12 note.
75. Âpastamba I, 1, 1, 28. The plural vivâhayeyuh, 'let them (not) form matrimonial alliances,' indicates that orthodox Brâhmanas must neither give their daughters to Patitasâvitríkas nor take the daughters of such persons. 78. Gautama XIX, 9.
79. Gautama XIX, 8.
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