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shana, the Atharvasiras, the (Anuvâkas called) Rudras, the Purusha-hymn, the two Sâmans called Râgana and Rauhineya, the Kushmândas, the Påvamânîs, and the Sâvitri.
10. Now they quote also the following verse): "He who performs once in each season the offerings to Vaisvânara and Vratapati and the Pavitreshti sanctifies ten ancestors.'
11. To live on milk alone, as if one were fasting, to eat fruit only, (to live on) barley gruel prepared of a handful of grain, to eat gold, to drink Soma (are modes of subsistence which) purify.
12. All mountains, all rivers, holy lakes, places of pilgrimage, the dwellings of Rishis, cowpens, and temples of the gods (are) places (which destroy sin).
13. A year, a month, twenty-four days, twelve days, six days, three days, a day and a night are the periods (for penances).
14. These (acts) may be optionally performed when no (particular penance) has been prescribed,
15. (Viz.) for great sins difficult (penances), and for trivial faults easy ones.
16. The Krikkhra and the Atikrikkhra (as well as) the Kândrayana are penances for all (offences).
CHAPTER XXIII. 1. If a student has approached a woman, he shall slay in the forest, in a place where four roads meet,
10. Krishnapandita takes the last word dasapūrusham to mean ten ancestors and ten descendants.
II. As if one were fasting,' i. e, in small quantities.-Krishnapandita.
XXIII. 1. Gautama XXIII, 17.
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