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VASISHTHA.
XXIV, 3.
asking, and to fast during the last three days. That is an Atikrikkhra.
3. A Krikkhra penance (during the performance of which one) subsists on water (only is called) a Krikkhrâtikrikkhra.
4. The peculiar observances (prescribed during the performance) of Krikkhra penances (are as follows):
5. `Having cut his nails, (the performer) shall cause his beard and all his hair to be shaved off, excepting the eyebrows, the eyelashes, and the lock at the top of the head; (wear) one garment only; he shall eat blameless food; what one obtains by going to beg once (is called) blameless food; he shall bathe in the morning, at noon, and in the evening; he shall carry a stick (and) a waterpot; he shall avoid to speak to women and Sūdras; carefully keeping himself in an upright or sitting posture, he shall stand during the day, and remain seated during the night. Thus speaks the divine Vasishtha.
6. Let him not instruct in these Institutes of the sacred law anybody but his son or a pupil who stays (in his house at least) for a year.
7. The fee (for teaching it) is one thousand (panas), (or) ten cows and a bull, or the worship of the teacher.
CHAPTER XXV. 1. I will completely explain the purification of those whose guilt has not been made public, both from great crimes and for minor offences.
3. Gautama XXVI, 20; see also Vishnu XLVI, 13-14. 4-5. Gautama XXVI, 6, 8; Vishnu XLVII, 24-25.
6. The MSS. read in the beginning of this Satra, satayânudeti. or satayâtudeta, while Krishnapandita, probably as a guess, writes satapâ nudati. I do not think that his correction is satisfactory, and propose in its stead, sa tadyadetad (dharmasastram).
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