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ÂPASTAMBA.
1, 5, 16.
21. Food touched by a (Brâhmana or other highcaste person) who is impure, becomes impure, but not unfit for eating
22. But what has been brought (be it touched or not) by an impure Sudra, must not be eaten,
23. Nor that food in which there is a hair, 24. Or any other unclean substance.
25. (Nor must that food be eaten) which has been touched with an unclean substance (such as garlic),
26. Nor (that in which) an insect living on impure substances (is found),
27. Nor (that in which) excrements or limbs of a mouse (are found),
28. Nor that which has been touched by the foot (even of a pure person),
29. Nor what has been (touched) with the hem of a garment,
30. Nor that which has been looked at by a dog or an Apapâtra,
21. 'Food which is simply impure, may be purified by putting it on the fire, sprinkling it with water, touching it with ashes or earth, and praising it.'-Haradatta.
22. Others say, that the food becomes unfit for eating, only, if in bringing it, the Sadra has touched it.-Haradatta.
23. Manu IV, 207; Yâgñ. I, 167. But this rule holds good only if the hair had been cooked with the food. If a hair falls into it at dinner, then it is to be purified by an addition of clarified butter, and may be eaten.'-Haradatta.
24. Haradatta quotes a passage from Baudhayana, which enumerates as 'unclean things' here intended, 'hair, worms or beetles, nail-parings, excrements of rats. The rule must be understood as the preceding, i.e. in case these things have been cooked with the food.
26. Manu IV, 207; Yâgñ. I, 167, 168. This Sūtra must be read with Sätra 23 above.
30. Manu IV, 208; Yâgñ. I, 167. Apapâtras are persons whom
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