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XI, 192.
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due to the eldest son; and in his stead a younger brother, excelling in virtue, shall obtain the share of the eldest.
187. But when he has performed his penance, they shall bathe with him in a holy pool and throw down a new pot, filled with water.
188. But he shall throw that pot into water, enter his house and perform, as before, all the duties incumbent on a relative.
EXCOMMUNICATION AND RE-ADMISSION.
189. Let him follow the same rule in the case of female outcasts; but clothes, food, and drink shall be given to them, and they shall live close to the (family-)house.
190. Let him not transact any business with unpurified sinners; but let him in no way reproach those who have made atonement.
191. Let him not dwell together with the murderers of children, with those who have returned evil for good, and with the slayers of suppliants for protection or of women, though they may have been purified according to the sacred law.
192. Those twice-born men who may not have been taught the Sâvitri (at the time) prescribed by the rule, he shall cause to perform three Krikkhra (penances) and afterwards initiate them in accordance with the law.
187-188. Gaut. XX, 10-14; Vas. XV, 17-21; Baudh. II, 1, 36; Yâgn. III, 296.
188. Thus Gov., Kull., Râgh., and others quoted by Medh. But the latter commentator himself refers sa tu, 'but he,' to one of the relatives, and Nâr. seems to agree with him.
189. Yâgn. III, 297.
190-191. Vi. LIV, 32-33; Yâgñ. III, 299.
192. Ap. I, 1, 23-2, 10; Vas. XI, 76-79; Vi. LIV, 26. Regarding the times of the initiation, see above, I1, 38.
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