Book Title: Vinaya Texts
Author(s): T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford

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________________ 458 LAWS OF MANU. XI, 135. 135. For a boar a pot of clarified butter, for a partridge a drona of sesamum-grains, for a parrot a calf two years old, for a crane (a calf) three years old. 136. If he has killed a Hamsa, a Balâka, a heron, a peacock, a monkey, a falcon, or a Bhâsa, he shall give a cow to a Brâhmana. 137. For killing a horse, he shall give a garment, for (killing) an elephant, five black bulls, for (killing) a goat, or a sheep, a draught-ox, for killing a donkey, (a calf) one year old; 138. But for killing carnivorous wild beasts, he shall give a milch-cow, for (killing) wild beasts that are not carnivorous, a heifer, for killing a camel, one krishnala. 139. For killing adulterous women of the four castes, he must give, in order to purify himself, respectively a leathern bag, a bow, a goat, or a sheep. 140. A twice-born man, who is unable to atone by gifts for the slaughter of a serpent and the other (creatures mentioned), shall perform for each of them, a Krikkhra (penance) in order to remove his guilt. 141. But for destroying one thousand (small) 135. Gaut. XXII, 24; Vi. L, 36-39; Yâgñ. III, 271, 273-274. Kumbha, 'a pot,' i. e. 'of 200 palas' (Nâr.). A drona, i. e. four âdhakas (Medh.), or 128 palas (Nar.). 136. Vi. L, 33; Yâgã. III, 272. 137. Vi. L, 25-28; Yagñ. III, 271, 274. 138. Vi. L, 29, 40-41; Yagñ. III, 272-273. A krishnala,' i.e. of gold' (Medh., Gov., Kull., Nâr., Nand., Râgh.). 139. Gaut. XXII, 26; Yagñ. III, 268. Respectively,' i. e. according to the order of the castes. Râgh. adds 'unintentionally.' 140. Yâgñ. III, 274; Vas. XXI, 26. 14I. Gaut. XXII, 20–21Ấp. I, 26, 2 ; Vas. XXI, 25; Vi. L, 46; Digitized by Google

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