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Manusmriti: The Laws of Manu |
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He who desires to be pure, must not eat forbidden food, and must
vomit up such as he has eaten unintentionally, or quickly atone for
it by (various) means of purfication. 162.
The various rules respecting penances for eating forbidden food have
been thus declared; hear now the law of those penances which remove
the guilt of theft. 163.
The chief of the twice-born, having voluntarily stolen (valuable)
property, grain, or cooked food, from the house of a caste-fellow,
is purified by performing Krikkhra (penances) during a whole year. 164.
The lunar penance has been declared to be the expiation for stealing
men and women, and (for wrongfully appropriating) a field, a house,
or the water of wells and cisterns. 165.
He who has stolen objects of small value from the house of another
man, shall, after restoring the (stolen article), perform a
Samtapana Krikkhra for his puri3-cation. 166.
(To swallow) the five products of the cow (pankagavya) is the
atonement for stealing eatables of various kinds, a vehicle, a bed,
a seat, flowers, roots, or fruit. 167.
Fasting during three (days and) nights shall be (the penance for
stealing) grass, wood, trees, dry food, molasses, clothes, leather,
and meat. 168.
To subsist during twelve days on (uncooked) grains (is the penance
for stealing) gems, pearls, coral, copper, silver, iron, brass, or
stone. 169.
(For stealing) cotton, silk, wool, an animal with cloven hoofs, or
one with un-cloven hoofs, a bird, perfumes, medicinal herbs, or a
rope (the penance is to subsist) during three days (on) milk. 170.
By means of these penances, a twice-born man may remove the guilt of
theft; but the guilt of approaching women who ought not to be
approached (agamya), he may expiate by (the following) penances. |
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