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XI, 93.
PENANCES FOR DRINKING SPIRITS.
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tentionally killing a Brâhmana ; but for intentionally slaying a Brâhmana no atonement is ordained.
91. A twice-born man who has intentionally) drunk, through delusion of mind, (the spirituous liquor called) Surâ shall drink that liquor boilinghot; when his body has been completely scalded by that, he is freed from his guilt;
92. Or he may drink cow's urine, water, milk, clarified butter or (liquid) cowdung boiling-hot, until he dies;
93. Or, in order to remove (the guilt of) drinking Surâ, he may eat during a year once (a day) at night grains (of rice) or oilcake, wearing clothes made of cowhair and his own hair in braids and carrying (a wine cup as) a flag. interpretation of this verse is that Manu, just as Ap. I, 24, 24, held the intentional murder of a true Brâhmana to be inexpiable during the criminal's life, and meant to teach that the murderer had either to perform a penance which caused his death or to live according to the twelve years' rule during the term of his natural life. This is the doctrine attributed to Manu by Gaut. XXI, 7. While Gov. and Nâr. agree with this explanation, Medh., 'others' quoted by Gov., Kull., Nand., and Râgh. refer iyam, 'this,' to verse 73, and hold that in the case of wilful murder the penance has only to be made severer by doubling or trebling the term of twelve years.
91-98. Ap. I, 25, 3, 10; 27, 10; Gaut. XXIII, 10-12; Vas. XX, 19, 22; Baudh. II, 1, 18-22 ; Vi. LI, 1-4; Yagñ. III, 253-254.
91. This and the next penances are prescribed for an intentional offence; see below, verse 147. According to Medh., Gov., Kull., and Râgh. (the latter two quoting the Bhavishyapurâna), the spirituous liquor here intended is the paishlikî surâ, that distilled from ground rice. According to Nâr. the penance ending in death must be performed by all Aryans who have drunk paishfiki surâ, and by Brahmanas who have drunk any of the three kinds of surâ mentioned in verse 95. Nand. reads amohật, and explains it by matipůrvakam, 'intentionally.'
93. According to Gov., Kull., Nand., and Râgh., this penance is prescribed for drinking unintentionally paishfikî sura ; according
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