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XV, 18.
EXCOMMUNICATION AND READMISSION.
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v 11. He who divulges the Veda (to persons not authorised to study it), he who sacrifices for Sûdras, (and all those) who have fallen from the rank of the highest caste (shall be excommunicated by the ceremony of) emptying the water-vessel.
12. A slave or the son of a wife of a lower caste, or a relative not belonging to the same caste, who is destitute of good qualities, shall fetch a broken pot from a heap of vessels unfit for use, place Kusa grass, the tops of which have been cut off, or Lohita grass (on the ground), and empty the pot for the (outcast, overturning it) with his left foot ;
13. And the relatives of the (outcast), allowing their hair to hang down, shall touch him who empties (the pot).
14. Turning (when they leave) their left hands towards (that spot), they may go home at pleasure.
15. Let them not afterwards admit the (excommunicated person) to sacred rites.
16. Those who admit him to sacred rites become his equals.
17. But outcasts who have performed (the prescribed) penance (may be) readmitted.
18. Now they quote also (the following verse):
different explanation, Provided (the estate) may not have been expended in acts of merit,' is given Dattakakandrika V, 17-18. It is doubtlessly erroneous, for the estate' is nowhere mentioned in the preceding Sūtras.
II. Gautama XX, 1.
12. Gautama XX, 4. 'For the (outcast),' i. e. pronouncing his name, and saying, 'I deprive N. N. of water.'
13. Gautama XX, 5. Krishnapandita takes the Satra differently, but his explanation is refuted by the parallel passage of Gautama and Haradatta's commentary thereon. 14. Gautama XX, 7.
15. Gautama XX, 8-9.
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