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BAUDHÂVANA.
II, 1, 2.
3. Stealing the property of a Brâhmana or a deposit,
4. Giving false evidence regarding land,
5. Trading with merchandise of any description | (whether forbidden or not), 1 6. Serving Sudras, 17. Begetting a son on a female of the Sudra caste, i 8. And becoming thereby her son.
9. (For those who have) committed one of these (offences the following penance is prescribed):
10. “They shall eat every fourth meal-time a little food, bathe at the time of the three libations (morning, noon, and evening), passing (the day) standing and (the night) sitting. After the lapse of three years they throw off their guilt.'
11. 'A Brâhmana removes the sin which he committed by serving the black race during one day and one night, if he bathes during three years at every fourth meal-time.
7. The MSS. from Gugarât and the Dekhan read instead of this and the next Sûtras, yaska sûdrâyâm abhipragâyate tadapatyam ka bhavati, and he who begets (offspring) on a Sudra female, and thereby becomes her son.
8. Govinda explains the Sätra as a prohibition against allowing oneself to be adopted by a Sudra (südraputrabhavahi tavaham putro 'smity upagivanam).
9. The Dekhan and Gugarât MSS. again have a different reading, teshâm tu nisveshah, but the atonement of these offences (is as follows).'
10. Apastamba I, 9, 25, 10. All the MSS. read in the last pâda tribhir varshais tad apahanti pâpam.' The correct reading is that given by Âpastamba loc. cit., 'tribhir varshair apa pâpam nudante.'
11. Âpastamba I, 9, 27, 11. Govinda explains the Sûtra as referring to cohabitation with a female of the black race. By the latter term he understands a Kândali, adding that others believe
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