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इन्द्रियाणि यशः स्वर्गं आयुः कीर्तिं प्रजाः पशून् ।
हन्त्यल्पदक्षिणो यज्ञस्तस्मान्नाल्पधनो यजेत् । । ११.४०[३९ं] । ।
- The organs (of sense and action), honour, (bliss in) heaven, longevity, fame, offspring, and cattle are destroyed by a sacrifice at which (too) small sacrificial fees are given; hence a man of small means should not offer a (Srauta) sacrifice. (Ⅲ)
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अग्निहोत्र्यपविध्याग्नीन्ब्राह्मणः कामकारतः ।
चान्द्रायणं चरेन्मासं वीरहत्यासमं हि तत् । । ११.४१[४०ं] । ।
- A Brahmana who, being an Agnihotrin, voluntarily neglects the sacred fires, shall perform a lunar penance during one month; for that (offence) is equal to the slaughter of a son. (Ⅲ)
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ये शूद्रादधिगम्यार्थं अग्निहोत्रं उपासते ।
ऋत्विजस्ते हि शूद्राणां ब्रह्मवादिषु गर्हिताः । । ११.४२[४१ं] । ।
- Those who, obtaining wealth from Sudras, (and using that) offer an Agnihotra, are priests officiating for Sudras, (and hence) censured among those who recite the Veda. (Ⅲ)
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तेषां सततं अज्ञानां वृषलाग्न्युपसेविनाम् ।
पदा मस्तकं आक्रम्य दाता दुर्गाणि संतरेत् । । ११.४३[४२ं] । ।
- Treading with his foot on the heads of those fools who worship a fire (kindled at the expense) of a Sudra, the giver (of the wealth) shall always pass over his miseries (in the next world). (Ⅲ)
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अकुर्वन्विहितं कर्म निन्दितं च समाचरन् ।
प्रसक्तश्चेन्द्रियार्थेषु प्रायश्चित्तीयते नरः । । ११.४४[४३ं] । ।
- A man who omits a prescribed act, or performs a blamable act, or cleaves to sensual enjoyments, must perform a penance. (Ⅲ)
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अकामतः कृते पापे प्रायश्चित्तं विदुर्बुधाः ।
कामकारकृतेऽप्याहुरेके श्रुतिनिदर्शनात् । । ११.४५[४४ं] । ।
- (All) sages prescribe a penance for a sin unintentionally committed; some declare, on the evidence of the revealed texts, (that it may be performed) even for an intentional (offence). (Ⅲ)
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अकामतः कृतं पापं वेदाभ्यासेन शुध्यति ।
कामतस्तु कृतं मोहात्प्रायश्चित्तैः पृथग्विधैः । । ११.४६[४५ं] । ।
- A sin unintentionally committed is expiated by the recitation of Vedic texts, but that which (men) in their folly commit intentionally, by various (special) penances. (Ⅲ)
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प्रायश्चित्तीयतां प्राप्य दैवात्पूर्वकृतेन वा ।
न संसर्गं व्रजेत्सद्भिः प्रायश्चित्तेऽकृते द्विजः । । ११.४७[४६ं] । ।
- A twice-born man, having become liable to perform a penance, be it by (the decree of) fate or by (an act) committed in a former life, must not, before the penance has been performed, have intercourse with virtuous men. (Ⅲ)
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इह दुश्चरितैः के चित्के चित्पूर्वकृतैस्तथा ।
प्राप्नुवन्ति दुरात्मानो नरा रूपविपर्ययम् । । ११.४८[४७ं] । ।
- Some wicked men suffer a change of their (natural) appearance in consequence of crimes committed in this life, and some in consequence of those committed in a former (existence). (Ⅲ)
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सुवर्णचौरः कौनख्यं सुरापः श्यावदन्तताम् ।
ब्रह्महा क्षयरोगित्वं दौश्चर्म्यं गुरुतल्पगः । । ११.४९[४८ं] । ।
- He who steals the gold (of a Brahmana) has diseased nails; a drinker of (the spirituous liquor called) Sura, black teeth; the slayer of a Brahmana, consumption; the violator of a Guru's bed, a diseased skin; (Ⅲ)
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पिशुनः पौतिनासिक्यं सूचकः पूतिवक्त्रताम् ।
धान्यचौरोऽङ्गहीनत्वं आतिरैक्यं तु मिश्रकः । । ११.५०[४९ं] । ।
- An informer, a foul-smelling nose; a calumniator, a stinking breath; a stealer of grain, deficiency in limbs; he who adulterates (grain), redundant limbs; (Ⅲ)
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अन्नहर्तामयावित्वं मौक्यं वागपहारकः ।
वस्त्रापहारकः श्वैत्र्यं पङ्गुतां अश्वहारकः । । ११.५१[५०ं] । ।
- A stealer of (cooked) food, dyspepsia; a stealer of the words (of the Veda), dumbness a stealer of clothes, white leprosy; a horse-stealer, lameness. (Ⅲ)
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सर्वाकारेष्वधीकारो महायन्त्रप्रवर्तनम् ।
हिंसौषधीनां स्त्र्याजीवोऽभिचारो मूलकर्म च । । ११.६३[६२ं] । ।
- Living as a Vratya, casting off a relative, teaching (the Veda) for wages, learning (the Veda) from a paid teacher, and selling goods which one ought not to sell, (Ⅲ)
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इन्धनार्थं अशुष्काणां द्रुमाणां अवपातनम् ।
आत्मार्थं च क्रियारम्भो निन्दितान्नादनं तथा । । ११.६४[६३ं] । ।
- Superintending mines (or factories) of any sort, executing great mechanical works, injuring (living) plants, subsisting on (the earnings of) one's wife, sorcery (by means of sacrifices), and working (magic by means of) roots, (and so forth), (Ⅲ)
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अनाहिताग्निता स्तेयं ऋणानां अनपक्रिया ।
असच्छाष्ट्राधिगमनं कौशीलव्यस्य च क्रिया । । ११.६५[६४ं] । ।
- Cutting down green trees for firewood, doing acts for one's own advantage only, eating prohibited food, (Ⅲ)
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धान्यकुप्यपशुस्तेयं मद्यपस्त्रीनिषेवणम् ।
स्त्रीशूद्रविट्क्षत्रवधो नास्तिक्यं चोपपातकम् । । ११.६६[६५ं] । ।
- Neglecting to kindle the sacred fires, theft, non-payment of (the three) debts, studying bad books, and practising (the arts of) dancing and singing, (Ⅲ)
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तपसापनुनुत्सुस्तु सुवर्णस्तेयजं मलम् ।
चीरवासा द्विजोऽरण्ये चरेद्ब्रह्महणो व्रतम् । । ११.१०१[१००ं] । ।
- Taking (from him) the club (which he must carry), the king himself shall strike him once, by his death the thief becomes pure; or a Brahmana (may purify himself) by austerities. (Ⅲ)
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एतैर्व्रतैरपोहेत पापं स्तेयकृतं द्विजः ।
गुरुस्त्रीगमनीयं तु व्रतैरेभिरपानुदेत् । । ११.१०२[१०१ं] । ।
- He who desires to remove by austerities the guilt of stealing the gold (of a Brahmana), shall perform the penance (prescribed) for the slayer of a Brahmana, (living) in a forest and dressed in (garments) made of bark. (Ⅲ)
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गुरुतल्प्यभिभाष्यैनस्तप्ते स्वप्यादयोमये ।
सूर्मीं ज्वलन्तीं स्वाश्लिष्येन्मृत्युना स विशुध्यति । । ११.१०३[१०२ं] । ।
- By these penances a twice-born man may remove the guilt incurred by a theft (of gold); but he may atone for connexion with a Guru's wife by the following penances. (Ⅲ)
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स्वयं वा शिष्णवृषणावुत्कृत्याधाय चाञ्जलौ ।
नैरृतीं दिशं आतिष्ठेदा निपातादजिह्मगः । । ११.१०४[१०३ं] । ।
- He who has violated his Guru's bed, shall, after confessing his crime, extend himself on a heated iron bed, or embrace the red-hot image (of a woman); by dying he becomes pure; (Ⅲ)
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खट्वाङ्गी चीरवासा वा श्मश्रुलो विजने वने ।
प्राजापत्यं चरेत्कृच्छ्रं अब्दं एकं समाहितः । । ११.१०५[१०४ं] । ।
- Or, having himself cut off his organ and his testicles and having taken them in his joined hands, he may walk straight towards the region of Nirriti (the south-west), until he falls down (dead); (Ⅲ)
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चान्द्रायणं वा त्रीन्मासानभ्यस्येन्नियतेन्द्रियः ।
हविष्येण यवाग्वा वा गुरुतल्पापनुत्तये । । ११.१०६[१०५ं] । ।
- Or, carrying the foot of a bedstead, dressed in (garments of) bark and allowing his beard to grow, he may, with a concentrated mind, perform during a whole year the Krikkhra (or hard, penance), revealed by Pragapati, in a lonely forest; (Ⅲ)
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एतैर्व्रतैरपोहेयुर्महापातकिनो मलम् ।
उपपातकिनस्त्वेवं एभिर्नानाविधैर्व्रतैः । । ११.१०७[१०६ं] । ।
- Or, controlling his organs, he may during three months continuously perform the lunar penance, (subsisting) on sacrificial food or barley-gruel, in order to remove (the guilt of) violating a Guru's bed. (Ⅲ)
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उपपातकसंयुक्तो गोघ्नो मासं यवान्पिबेत् ।
कृतवापो वसेद्गोष्ठे चर्मणा तेन संवृतः । । ११.१०८[१०७ं] । ।
- By means of these penances men who have committed mortal sins (Mahapataka) may remove their guilt, but those who committed minor offences, causing loss of caste, (Upapataka, can do it) by the various following penances. (Ⅲ)
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ब्राह्मणस्य रुजः कृत्वा घ्रातिरघ्रेयमद्ययोः ।
जैह्म्यं च मैथुनं पुंसि जातिभ्रंशकरं स्मृतम् । । ११.६७[६६ं] । ।
- Stealing grain, base metals, or cattle, intercourse with women who drink spirituous liquor, slaying women, Sudras, Vaisyas, or Kshatriyas, and atheism, (are all) minor offences, causing loss of caste (Upapataka). (Ⅲ)
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खराश्वोष्ट्रमृगेभानां अजाविकवधस्तथा ।
संकरीकरणं ज्ञेयं मीनाहिमहिषस्य च । । ११.६८[६७ं] । ।
- Giving pain to a Brahmana (by a blow), smelling at things which ought not to be smelt at, or at spirituous liquor, cheating, and an unnatural offence with a man, are declared to cause the loss of caste (Gatibhramsa) (Ⅲ)
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निन्दितेभ्यो धनादानं वाणिज्यं शूद्रसेवनम् ।
अपात्रीकरणं ज्ञेयं असत्यस्य च भाषणम् । । ११.६९[६८ं] । ।
- Killing a donkey, a horse, a camel, a deer, an elephant, a goat, a sheep, a fish, a snake, or a buffalo, must be known to degrade (the offender) to a mixed caste (Samkarikarana). (Ⅲ)
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कृमिकीटवयोहत्या मद्यानुगतभोजनम् ।
फलैधःकुसुमस्तेयं अधैर्यं च मलावहम् । । ११.७०[६९ं] । ।
- Accepting presents from blamed men, trading, serving Sudras, and speaking a falsehood, make (the offender) unworthy to receive gifts (Apatra). (Ⅲ)
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एतान्येनांसि सर्वाणि यथोक्तानि पृथक्पृथक् ।
यैर्यैर्व्रतैरपोह्यन्ते तानि सम्यङ्निबोधत । । ११.७१[७०ं] । ।
- Killing insects, small or large, or birds, eating anything kept close to spirituous liquors, stealing fruit, firewood, or flowers, (are offences) which make impure (Malavaha). (Ⅲ)
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ब्रह्महा द्वादश समाः कुटीं कृत्वा वने वसेत् ।
भैक्षाश्यात्मविशुद्ध्यर्थं कृत्वा शवशिरो ध्वजम् । । ११.७२[७१ं] । ।
- Learn (now) completely those penances, by means of which all the several offences mentioned (can) be expiated. (Ⅲ)
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लक्ष्यं शस्त्रभृतां वा स्याद्विदुषां इच्छयात्मनः ।
प्रास्येदात्मानं अग्नौ वा समिद्धे त्रिरवाक्शिराः । । ११.७३[७२ं] । ।
- For his purification the slayer of a Brahmana shall make a hut in the forest and dwell (in it) during twelve years, subsisting on alms and making the skull of a dead man his flag. (Ⅲ)
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यजेत वाश्वमेधेन स्वर्जिता गोसवेन वा ।
अभिजिद्विश्वजिद्भ्यां वा त्रिवृताग्निष्टुतापि वा । । ११.७४[७३ं] । ।
- Or let him, of his own free will, become (in a battle) the target of archers who know (his purpose); or he may thrice throw himself headlong into a blazing fire; (Ⅲ)
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जपन्वान्यतमं वेदं योजनानां शतं व्रजेत् ।
ब्रह्महत्यापनोदाय मितभुङ्नियतेन्द्रियः । । ११.७५[७४ं] । ।
- Or he may offer a horse-sacrifice, a Svargit, a Gosava, an Abhigit, a Visvagit, a Trivrit, or an Agnishtut; (Ⅲ)
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सर्वस्वं वेदविदुषे ब्राह्मणायोपपादयेत् ।
धनं हि जीवनायालं गृहं वा सपरिच्छदम् । । ११.७६[७५ं] । ।
- Or, in order to remove (the guilt of) slaying a Brahmana, he may walk one hundred yoganas, reciting one of the Vedas, eating little, and controlling his organs; (Ⅲ)
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हविष्यभुग्वानुसरेत्प्रतिस्रोतः सरस्वतीम् ।
जपेद्वा नियताहारस्त्रिर्वै वेदस्य संहिताम् । । ११.७७[७६ं] । ।
- Or he may present to a Brahmana, learned in the Vedas, whole property, as much wealth as suffices for the maintenance (of the recipient), or a house together with the furniture; (Ⅲ)
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कृतवापनो निवसेद्ग्रामान्ते गोव्रजेऽपि वा ।
आश्रमे वृक्षमूले वा गोब्राह्मणहिते रतः । । ११.७८[७७ं] । ।
- Or, subsisting on sacrificial food, he may walk against the stream along (the whole course of the river) Sarasvati; or, restricting his food (very much), he may mutter thrice the Samhita of a Veda. (Ⅲ)
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ब्राह्मणार्थे गवार्थे वा सद्यः प्राणान्परित्यजेत् ।
मुच्यते ब्रह्महत्याया गोप्ता गोर्ब्राह्मणस्य च । । ११.७९[७८ं] । ।
- Having shaved off (all his hair), he may dwell at the extremity of the village, or in a cow-pen, or in a hermitage, or at the root of a tree, taking pleasure in doing good to cows and Brahmanas. (Ⅲ)
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त्रिवारं प्रतिरोद्धा वा सर्वस्वं अवजित्य वा ।
विप्रस्य तन्निमित्ते वा प्राणालाभे विमुच्यते । । ११.८०[७९ं] । ।
- He who unhesitatingly abandons life for the sake of Brahmanas or of cows, is freed from (the guilt of) the murder of a Brahmana, and (so is he) who saves (the life of) a cow, or of a Brahmana. (Ⅲ)
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एवं दृढव्रतो नित्यं ब्रह्मचारी समाहितः ।
समाप्ते द्वादशे वर्षे ब्रह्महत्यां व्यपोहति । । ११.८१[८०ं] । ।
- If either he fights at least three times (against robbers in defence of) a Brahmana's (property), or reconquers the whole property of a Brahmana, or if he loses his life for such a cause, he is freed (from his guilt). (Ⅲ)
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शिष्ट्वा वा भूमिदेवानां नरदेवसमागमे ।
स्वं एनोऽवभृथस्नातो हयमेधे विमुच्यते । । ११.८२[८१ं] । ।
- He who thus (remains) always firm in his vow, chaste, and of concentrated mind, removes after the lapse of twelve years (the guilt of) slaying a Brahmana. (Ⅲ)
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धर्मस्य ब्राह्मणो मूलं अग्रं राजन्य उच्यते ।
तस्मात्समागमे तेषां एनो विख्याप्य शुध्यति । । ११.८३[८२ं] । ।
- Or he who, after confessing his crime in an assembly of the gods of the earth (Brahnanas), and the gods of men (Kshatriyas), bathes (with the priests) at the close of a horse-sacrifice, is (also) freed (from guilt). (Ⅲ)
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ब्रह्मणः संभवेनैव देवानां अपि दैवतम् ।
प्रमाणं चैव लोकस्य ब्रह्मात्रैव हि कारणम् । । ११.८४[८३ं] । ।
- The Brahmana is declared (to be) the root of the sacred law and the Kshatriya its top; hence he who has confessed his sin before an assembly of such men, becomes pure. (Ⅲ)
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तेषां वेदविदो ब्रूयुस्त्रयोऽप्येनः सुनिष्कृतिम् ।
सा तेषां पावनाय स्यात्पवित्रा विदुषां हि वाक् । । ११.८५[८४ं] । ।
- By his origin alone a Brahmana is a deity even for the gods, and (his teaching is) authoritative for men, because the Veda is the foundation for that. (Ⅲ)
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अतोऽन्यतमं आस्थाय विधिं विप्रः समाहितः ।
ब्रह्महत्याकृतं पापं व्यपोहत्यात्मवत्तया । । ११.८६[८५ं] । ।
- (If) only three of them who are learned in the Veda proclaim the expiation for offences, that shall purify the (sinners); for the words of learned men are a means of purification. (Ⅲ)
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हत्वा गर्भं अविज्ञातं एतदेव व्रतं चरेत् ।
राजन्यवैश्यौ चेजानावात्रेयीं एव च स्त्रियम् । । ११.८७[८६ं] । ।
- A Brahmana who, with a concentrated mind, follows any of the (above-mentioned) rules, removes the sin committed by slaying a Brahmana through his self-control. (Ⅲ)
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उक्त्वा चैवानृतं साक्ष्ये प्रतिरुध्य गुरुं तथा ।
अपहृत्य च निःक्षेपं कृत्वा च स्त्रीसुहृद्वधम् । । ११.८८[८७ं] । ।
- For destroying the embryo (of a Brahmana, the sex of which was) unknown, for slaying a Kshatriya or a Vaisya who are (engaged in or) have offered a (Vedic) sacrifice, or a (Brahmana) woman who has bathed after temporary uncleanness (Atreyi), he must perform the same penance, (Ⅲ)
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इयं विशुद्धिरुदिता प्रमाप्याकामतो द्विजम् ।
कामतो ब्राह्मणवधे निष्कृतिर्न विधीयते । । ११.८९[८८ं] । ।
- Likewise for giving false evidence (in an important cause), for passionately abusing the teacher, for stealing a deposit, and for killing (his) wife or his friend: (Ⅲ)
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सुरां पीत्वा द्विजो मोहादग्निवर्णां सुरां पिबेत् ।
तया स काये निर्दग्धे मुच्यते किल्बिषात्ततः । । ११.९०[८९ं] । ।
- This expiation has been prescribed for unintentionally killing a Brahmana; but for intentionally slaying a Brahmana no atonement is ordained. (Ⅲ)
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गोमूत्रं अग्निवर्णं वा पिबेदुदकं एव वा ।
पयो घृतं वा मरणाद्गोशकृद्रसं एव वा । । ११.९१[९०ं] । ।
- A twice-born man who has (intentionally) drunk, through delusion of mind, (the spirituous liquor called) Sura shall drink that liquor boiling-hot; when his body has been completely scalded by that, he is freed from his guilt; (Ⅲ)
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कणान्वा भक्षयेदब्दं पिण्याकं वा सकृन्निशि ।
सुरापानापनुत्त्यर्थं वालवासा जटी ध्वजी । । ११.९२[९१ं] । ।
- Or he may drink cow's urine, water, milk, clarified butter or (liquid) cowdung boiling-hot, until he dies; (Ⅲ)
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