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Manusmriti: The Laws of Manu |
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He who associates with an outcast, himself becomes an outcast after
a year, not by sacrificing for him, teaching him, or forming a
matrimonial alliance with him, but by using the same carriage or
seat, or by eating with him. 182.
He who associates with any one of those outcasts, must perform, in
order to atone for (such) intercourse, the penance prescribed for
that (sinner). 183.
The Sapindas and Samanodakas of an outcast must offer (a libation of)
water (to him, as if he were dead), outside (the village), on an
inauspicious day, in the evening and in the presence of the
relatives, officiating priests, and teachers. 184.
A female slave shall upset with her foot a pot filled with water, as
if it were for a dead person; (his Sapindas) as well as the
Samanodakas shall be impure for a day and a night; 185.
But thenceforward it shall be forbidden to converse with him, to sit
with him, to give him a share of the inheritance, and to hold with
him such intercourse as is usual among men; 186.
And (if he be the eldest) his right of primogeniture shall be
withheld and the additional share, due to the eldest son; and his
stead a younger brother, excelling in virtue, shall obtain the share
of the eldest. 187.
But when he has performed his penance, they shall bathe with him in
a holy pool and throw down a new pot, filled with water. 188.
But he shall throw that pot into water, enter his house and perform,
as be-fore, all the duties incumbent on a relative. 189.
Let him follow the same rule in the case of female outcasts; but
clothes, food, and drink shall be given to them, and they shall live
close to the (family) house. 190.
Let him not transact any business with unpurified sinners; but let
him in no way reproach those who have made atonement. |
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