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Manusmriti: The Laws of Manu |
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101.
A Brahmana who is distressed through a want of means of subsistence
and pines (with hunger), (but) unwilling to adopt a Vaisya's mode of
life and resolved to follow his own (prescribed) path, may act in
the following manner. 102.
A Brahmana who has fallen into distress may accept (gifts) from
anybody; for according to the law it is not possible (to assert)
that anything pure can be sullied. 103.
By teaching, by sacrificing for, and by accepting gifts from
despicable (men) Brahmanas (in distress) commit not sin; for they
(are as pure) as fire and water. 104.
He who, when in danger of losing his life, accepts food from any
person whatsoever, is no more tainted by sin than the sky by mud. 105.
Agigarta, who suffered hunger, approached in order to slay (his own)
son, and was not tainted by sin, since he (only) sought a remedy
against famishing. |
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