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24. After having (knowingly drunk water) from a vessel in which an intoxicating beverage had been kept, (he must drink the same) for five days.
25. A Soma-sacrificer, who has (unawares) smelt the breath of a man who had been drinking spirituous liquor, must plunge into water, (suppress his breath) and mutter the Aghamarshana three times, and eat clarified butter afterwards.
26. For eating (designedly) the flesh of an ass, of a camel, or of a crow !, he must perform the Kândrayana penance.
27. Likewise, for eating (knowingly) the flesh of an unknown (beast or bird), meat kept in a slaughterhouse, and dried meat.
28. For eating (unawares) the flesh of carnivorous beasts (tigers and others), or birds (hawks and others), he must perform the Taptakrikkhra.
29. For (knowingly) eating a sparrow, or (the heron called) Plava, or a Brâhmani duck, or a Hamsa, or the (wild cock called) Raggudâla, or a Sârasa crane, or a Dâtyaha, or a male or female parrot, or a crane, or a heron, or a cuckoo, or a wagtail, he must fast for three days.
30. Likewise, for eating (unawares the flesh of) animals whose hoof is not cloven (such as horses),
26. Nand. argues from a passage of Praketas, that the flesh of the following other animals, dogs, jackals, cocks, boars, carnivorous animals in general, Gangetic porpoises, apes, elephants, horses, tame hogs, cows, and human beings, is also implied here. But if that were the case, Sutra 26 would be partly a mere repetition of, and partly opposed to, the rules laid down in Sūtras 33 and 22.
27. Nand. infers from a passage of the Brâhma-purâna, that the use of the particle ka further implies a prohibition to eat the flesh on the back, or flesh which had been interred in the ground, or covered with earth, fried meat, and the flesh of the uterus.
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