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Brâhmanas do not contract guilt, for (a learned Brâhmana) resembles a fire and the sun.
10. I will now declare the purification prescribed for (eating) food, regarding which doubts have arisen, whether it may be called fit to be eaten or not. Listen to my words!
11. Let a Brâhmana drink during three days the astringent decoction of the Brahmasuvarkalâ plant, unmixed with salt or pungent condiments, and (a decoction of)the Sankhapushpi plant, together with milk.
12. Let him drink water, after boiling in it Palása and Bilva leaves, Kusa grass, and (leaves of) lotuses and Udumbara trees; after three days and no more he becomes pure.
13. (Subsisting) during one day on each (of the following substances), cow's urine, cowdung, milk, sour milk, butter, and water in which Kusa grass has been boiled, and fasting on the seventh day purify even (him who fears that he has partaken of the food of) a Svapaka.
14. He who lives during five days on cow's urine, cowdung, milk, sour milk, and clarified butter, is purified by means of (that) Pañkagavya, (the five products of the cow.)
15. He who, in accordance with the rule, uses barley (for his food), becomes pure even by ocular proof. (For) if he is pure, those (barley grains) will be white, if he is impure they will be discoloured.
16. (If he makes) three morning meals of food
12. Vishnu XLVI, 23. I read abhogyabhogyasamgñake. 13. Vishnu XLVI, 19. 15. The rule is described by Vishnu XLVIII.
16. The meaning of the Satra is that each mode of subsistence is to be continued during three days.
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