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11x. Others say that he may carry the skull of any corpse. This Sftra is to be construed with Sftra 14, Stras 12 and 13 being inserted parenthetically—Haradatta. Manu XI, 72-78; Yaga. III, 243. T, 9, 24 PENANCE, 81 20. After having performed (this penance) for twelve years, (he must perform) the ceremony known (by custom), through which he is re-admitted into the society of the good. 21. Or (after having performed the twelve years’ penance), he may build a hut on the path of robbers, and live there, trying to take from them the cows of Brahmazas. He is free (from his sin), when thrice he has been defeated by them, or when he has vanquished them. 22. Or he is freed (from his sin), if (after the twelve years’ penance) he bathes (with the priests) at the end of a horse-sacrifice. 23. This very same (penance is ordained) for him who, when his duty and love of gain come into conflict, chooses the gain. 24. If he has slain a Guru or a Bréhmaza, who has studied the Veda and finished the ceremonies of a Soma-sacrifice, he shall live according to this very same rule until his last breath. 25. He cannot be purified in this life. But his sin is removed (after death). 20. ‘I.e. after having performed the penance, he shall take grass and offer it to a cow. If the cow approaches and confidingly eats, then one should know that he has performed the penance properly, not otherwise. —Haradatta. Manu XI, 195 and 196. 21. Manu XI, 81.—Thus Haradatta, better, ‘when thrice he has fought with them,’ see the Pet. Dict. s.v. radh. 22. Manu XI, 83; Weber, Ind. Stud. X, 67. 23. ‘Or the Stra may have reference to unrighteous gain acquired by false testimony and the like.’—Haradatta. 24. ‘Guru means “the father and the rest.” ’—Haradatta. 25. ‘His sin is removed after death. Hence the meaning is that his sons or other (relations) may perform the funeral ceremonies and the like. But others think that the first part of the Sfitra forbids this, and that the meaning of praty4pattiA (can -be (2] G 82 APASTAMBA. I, 9, 25+ Prasna I, Parata 9, Kuawpa 25. 1. He who has had connection with a Guru’s wife shall cut off his organ together with the testicles, take them into his joined hands and walk towards the south without stopping, until he falls down dead. 2. Or he may die embracing a heated metal image of a woman. 3. A drinker of spirituous liquor shall drink exceedingly hot liquor so that he dies. 4. A thief shall go to the king with flying hair, carrying a club on his shoulder, and tell him his deed. He (the king) shall give him a blow with that (club). If the thief dies, his sin is expiated. 5. Ifhe is forgiven (by the king), the guilt falls upon him who forgives him, . 6. Or he may throw himself into the fire, or perform repeatedly severe austerities, 7. Or he may kill himself by diminishing daily his portion of food, 8. Or he may perform Kvzékhra penances (uninterruptedly) for one year.
26. Or he may throw himself into the fire, or perform repeatedly severe austerities, 7. Or he may kill himself by diminishing daily his portion of food, 8. Or he may perform Kvzékhra penances (uninterruptedly) for one year. purified) is “connection by being received as a son or other relation.” ’—Haradatta. 25. 1. Haradatta’s explanation of a ‘ Guru’s wife’ by ‘mother’ rests on a comparison of similar passages from other Smrstis, where’ a different ‘penance’ is prescribed for incestuous intercourse with other near relations. Manu XI, 105; Yag#. III, 259. 2. Manu XI, 104; Yaga. III, 259. 3. Manu XI, g1, 92; Yagé. III, 253. 4. I.e. who has stolen the gold of a Bréhmaza, Manu VIII, 314, 316; XI, 99-101; YAg#. WI, 257. 5- Manu VIII, 317. 6. Manu XI, 102. 8. According to Haradatta this Sfitra refers to all kinds of sins, T, 9, 25. PENANCE. 83 9. Now they quote also (the following verse) : 10. Those who have committed a theft (of gold), drunk spirituous liquor, or had connection with a Guru’s wife, but not those who have slain a Brahmaza, shall eat every fourth meal-time a little food, bathe at the times of the three libations (morning, noon, and evening), passing the day standing and the night sitting. After the lapse of three years they throw off their guilt. 11. (A man of any caste) excepting the first, who has slain a man of the first caste, shall go on a battle-field and place himself (between the two hostile armies). There they shall kill him (and thereby he becomes pure). 12. Or such a sinner may tear from his body and make the priest offer as a burnt-offering his hair, skin, flesh, and the rest, and then throw himself into the fire. 13. If a crow,a chameleon, a peacock, a Brahmazi duck, a swan, the vulture called Bhdsa, a frog, an ichneumon, a musk-rat, or a dog has been killed, then the same penance as for a Sidra must be performed. and it must be understood that the Krkkfra penances must be heavy for great crimes, and lighter for smaller faults; see also below,.I, 9, 27, 7 and 8. % Haradatta states that the verse is taken from a Purana. . Manu XI, 74; YAg#. III, 248. 12. The Mantras given in the commentary, and a parallel passage of Vasish‘ha XX, 25-26, Show that this terrible penance is not altogether a mere theory of Apastamba. Yag#. III, 247. 13. ‘According to some, the penance must be performed if all these animals together have been slain; according to others, if only one of. them has been killed.’—Haradatta. Manu XI, 132, 136; Y4ga. HI, 270-272. G2 84 APASTAMBA. I, 9, 26. Prasna I, Parata 9, Kuanpa 26. 1. (The same penance must be performed), if a milch-cow or a full-grown ox (has been slain), without a reason. 2. And for other animals (which have no bones), if an ox-load of them has been killed. | 3. He who abuses a person who (on account of his venerability) ought not to be abused, or speaks ‘an untruth (regarding any small matter) must abstain for three days from milk, pungent condiments, and salt.
32. And for other animals (which have no bones), if an ox-load of them has been killed. | 3. He who abuses a person who (on account of his venerability) ought not to be abused, or speaks ‘an untruth (regarding any small matter) must abstain for three days from milk, pungent condiments, and salt. 4. (If the same sins have been committed) by a Sfddra, he must fast for seven days. 5. And the same (penances must also be performed) by women, (but not those which follow). 6. He who cuts off a limb of a person for whose murder he would become an Abhisasta (must perform the penance prescribed for killing a Sddra), if the life (of the person injured) has not been endangered. 26. 1. ‘A reason’ for hurting a cow is, according to Haradatta, anger, or the desire to obtain meat. 2. Manu XI, 141; Yag#. III, 269. That ‘animals without bones,’ i.e. insects or mollusks, are intended in the Sfitra is an inference, drawn by Haradatta from the parallel passages of Gautama, Manu, and Yagfavalkya. 3. ‘A person who ought not to be abused, i. e. a father, a teacher, and the like. —Haradatta. 5. The same penances, i.e. those prescribed I, 9, 24—I, g, 26, 4. According to Haradatta this Sftra is intended to teach that women shall not perform the penances which follow. Others, - however, are of opinion that it is given in order to indicate that the preceding Sfttras apply to women by an atidesa, and that, according to a SmArta principle, applicable to such cases, it may be inferred, that women are to perform one-half only of the penances prescribed for men. I, 9, 26. PENANCE. 85 7. He who has been guilty of conduct unworthy of an Aryan, of calumniating others, of actions contrary to the rule of conduct, of eating or drinking things forbidden, of connection with a woman of the SQdra caste, of an unnatural crime, of performing magic rites with intent (to harm his enemies) or (of hurting others) unintentionally, shall bathe and sprinkle himself with water, reciting the (seven) verses addressed to the Waters, or the verses addressed to Varuma, or (other verses chosen from the Anuvaka, called) Pavitra, in proportion to the frequency with which the crime has been committed. 8. A (student) who has broken the vow of chastity, shall offer to Nirvzti an ass, according to the manner of the Pakayagza-rites. 9. A Sfdra shall eat (the remainder) of that (offering). 10. (Now follows) the penance for him who transgresses the rules of studentship. 11. He shall for a year serve his teacher silently, emitting speech only during the daily study (of the Veda, in announcing necessary business to) his teacher or his teacher's wife, and whilst collecting alms. 12, The following (penances) which we are going to proclaim, may be performed for the same sin, and 4. The Anuvaka intended is Taitt. Sah. II, 5, 12.
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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
11x. Others say that he may carry the skull of any corpse. This Sftra is to be construed with Sftra 14, Stras 12 and 13 being inserted parenthetically—Haradatta. Manu XI, 72-78; Yaga. III, 243. T, 9, 24 PENANCE, 81 20. After having performed (this penance) for twelve years, (he must perform) the ceremony known (by custom), through which he is re-admitted into the society of the good. 21. Or (after having performed the twelve years’ penance), he may build a hut on the path of robbers, and live there, trying to take from them the cows of Brahmazas. He is free (from his sin), when thrice he has been defeated by them, or when he has vanquished them. 22. Or he is freed (from his sin), if (after the twelve years’ penance) he bathes (with the priests) at the end of a horse-sacrifice. 23. This very same (penance is ordained) for him who, when his duty and love of gain come into conflict, chooses the gain. 24. If he has slain a Guru or a Bréhmaza, who has studied the Veda and finished the ceremonies of a Soma-sacrifice, he shall live according to this very same rule until his last breath. 25. He cannot be purified in this life. But his sin is removed (after death). 20. ‘I.e. after having performed the penance, he shall take grass and offer it to a cow. If the cow approaches and confidingly eats, then one should know that he has performed the penance properly, not otherwise. —Haradatta. Manu XI, 195 and 196. 21. Manu XI, 81.—Thus Haradatta, better, ‘when thrice he has fought with them,’ see the Pet. Dict. s.v. radh. 22. Manu XI, 83; Weber, Ind. Stud. X, 67. 23. ‘Or the Stra may have reference to unrighteous gain acquired by false testimony and the like.’—Haradatta. 24. ‘Guru means “the father and the rest.” ’—Haradatta. 25. ‘His sin is removed after death. Hence the meaning is that his sons or other (relations) may perform the funeral ceremonies and the like. But others think that the first part of the Sfitra forbids this, and that the meaning of praty4pattiA (can -be (2] G 82 APASTAMBA. I, 9, 25+ Prasna I, Parata 9, Kuawpa 25. 1. He who has had connection with a Guru’s wife shall cut off his organ together with the testicles, take them into his joined hands and walk towards the south without stopping, until he falls down dead. 2. Or he may die embracing a heated metal image of a woman. 3. A drinker of spirituous liquor shall drink exceedingly hot liquor so that he dies. 4. A thief shall go to the king with flying hair, carrying a club on his shoulder, and tell him his deed. He (the king) shall give him a blow with that (club). If the thief dies, his sin is expiated. 5. Ifhe is forgiven (by the king), the guilt falls upon him who forgives him, . 6. Or he may throw himself into the fire, or perform repeatedly severe austerities, 7. Or he may kill himself by diminishing daily his portion of food, 8. Or he may perform Kvzékhra penances (uninterruptedly) for one year.
26. Or he may throw himself into the fire, or perform repeatedly severe austerities, 7. Or he may kill himself by diminishing daily his portion of food, 8. Or he may perform Kvzékhra penances (uninterruptedly) for one year. purified) is “connection by being received as a son or other relation.” ’—Haradatta. 25. 1. Haradatta’s explanation of a ‘ Guru’s wife’ by ‘mother’ rests on a comparison of similar passages from other Smrstis, where’ a different ‘penance’ is prescribed for incestuous intercourse with other near relations. Manu XI, 105; Yag#. III, 259. 2. Manu XI, 104; Yaga. III, 259. 3. Manu XI, g1, 92; Yagé. III, 253. 4. I.e. who has stolen the gold of a Bréhmaza, Manu VIII, 314, 316; XI, 99-101; YAg#. WI, 257. 5- Manu VIII, 317. 6. Manu XI, 102. 8. According to Haradatta this Sfitra refers to all kinds of sins, T, 9, 25. PENANCE. 83 9. Now they quote also (the following verse) : 10. Those who have committed a theft (of gold), drunk spirituous liquor, or had connection with a Guru’s wife, but not those who have slain a Brahmaza, shall eat every fourth meal-time a little food, bathe at the times of the three libations (morning, noon, and evening), passing the day standing and the night sitting. After the lapse of three years they throw off their guilt. 11. (A man of any caste) excepting the first, who has slain a man of the first caste, shall go on a battle-field and place himself (between the two hostile armies). There they shall kill him (and thereby he becomes pure). 12. Or such a sinner may tear from his body and make the priest offer as a burnt-offering his hair, skin, flesh, and the rest, and then throw himself into the fire. 13. If a crow,a chameleon, a peacock, a Brahmazi duck, a swan, the vulture called Bhdsa, a frog, an ichneumon, a musk-rat, or a dog has been killed, then the same penance as for a Sidra must be performed. and it must be understood that the Krkkfra penances must be heavy for great crimes, and lighter for smaller faults; see also below,.I, 9, 27, 7 and 8. % Haradatta states that the verse is taken from a Purana. . Manu XI, 74; YAg#. III, 248. 12. The Mantras given in the commentary, and a parallel passage of Vasish‘ha XX, 25-26, Show that this terrible penance is not altogether a mere theory of Apastamba. Yag#. III, 247. 13. ‘According to some, the penance must be performed if all these animals together have been slain; according to others, if only one of. them has been killed.’—Haradatta. Manu XI, 132, 136; Y4ga. HI, 270-272. G2 84 APASTAMBA. I, 9, 26. Prasna I, Parata 9, Kuanpa 26. 1. (The same penance must be performed), if a milch-cow or a full-grown ox (has been slain), without a reason. 2. And for other animals (which have no bones), if an ox-load of them has been killed. | 3. He who abuses a person who (on account of his venerability) ought not to be abused, or speaks ‘an untruth (regarding any small matter) must abstain for three days from milk, pungent condiments, and salt.
32. And for other animals (which have no bones), if an ox-load of them has been killed. | 3. He who abuses a person who (on account of his venerability) ought not to be abused, or speaks ‘an untruth (regarding any small matter) must abstain for three days from milk, pungent condiments, and salt. 4. (If the same sins have been committed) by a Sfddra, he must fast for seven days. 5. And the same (penances must also be performed) by women, (but not those which follow). 6. He who cuts off a limb of a person for whose murder he would become an Abhisasta (must perform the penance prescribed for killing a Sddra), if the life (of the person injured) has not been endangered. 26. 1. ‘A reason’ for hurting a cow is, according to Haradatta, anger, or the desire to obtain meat. 2. Manu XI, 141; Yag#. III, 269. That ‘animals without bones,’ i.e. insects or mollusks, are intended in the Sfitra is an inference, drawn by Haradatta from the parallel passages of Gautama, Manu, and Yagfavalkya. 3. ‘A person who ought not to be abused, i. e. a father, a teacher, and the like. —Haradatta. 5. The same penances, i.e. those prescribed I, 9, 24—I, g, 26, 4. According to Haradatta this Sftra is intended to teach that women shall not perform the penances which follow. Others, - however, are of opinion that it is given in order to indicate that the preceding Sfttras apply to women by an atidesa, and that, according to a SmArta principle, applicable to such cases, it may be inferred, that women are to perform one-half only of the penances prescribed for men. I, 9, 26. PENANCE. 85 7. He who has been guilty of conduct unworthy of an Aryan, of calumniating others, of actions contrary to the rule of conduct, of eating or drinking things forbidden, of connection with a woman of the SQdra caste, of an unnatural crime, of performing magic rites with intent (to harm his enemies) or (of hurting others) unintentionally, shall bathe and sprinkle himself with water, reciting the (seven) verses addressed to the Waters, or the verses addressed to Varuma, or (other verses chosen from the Anuvaka, called) Pavitra, in proportion to the frequency with which the crime has been committed. 8. A (student) who has broken the vow of chastity, shall offer to Nirvzti an ass, according to the manner of the Pakayagza-rites. 9. A Sfdra shall eat (the remainder) of that (offering). 10. (Now follows) the penance for him who transgresses the rules of studentship. 11. He shall for a year serve his teacher silently, emitting speech only during the daily study (of the Veda, in announcing necessary business to) his teacher or his teacher's wife, and whilst collecting alms. 12, The following (penances) which we are going to proclaim, may be performed for the same sin, and 4. The Anuvaka intended is Taitt. Sah. II, 5, 12.
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