kinfinan, is ordained for fapindas, even thus it is ordained on a childbirth, for those who seek • abfolute purity.

62. Uncleanness, on account of the dead, is ⚫ ordained for all; but on the birth of a child, for the mother and father: impurity, for ten

I days after the childbirth, affects the mother only; but the father, having bathed, becomes

• pure.

63. A man, having wafted his manhood, is purified by bathing; but, after begetting a 'child on a parapúrvá, he muft meditate for three days on his impure ftate.

64. In one day and night, added to nights ⚫ three times three, the fapindas are purified after touching the corpfe; but the famánódacàs, in ⚫ three days.

65. A pupil in theology, having performed "the ceremony of burning his deceased precep

tor, becomes pure in ten nights: he is equal, in that cafe, to the Sapindas, who carry out the 'dead.

66. ' In a number of nights, equal to the num'ber of months from conception, a woman is pu'rified on a miscarriage; and a woman in her 'courses is rendered pure by bathing, whenher • effufion of blood has quite stopped.

67. For deceased male children, whose heads have not been fhorn, purity is legally

C obtained in one night; but for thofe, on whom

that ceremony has been performed, a purifica• tion of three nights is required.

68. A dead child under the age of two

years, let his kinsmen carry out having decked • him with 'owers, and bury him in pure ground, ⚫ without collecting his bones at a future time:

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69. Let no ceremony with fire be performed for him, nor that of fprinkling water; but his 'kindred, having left him like a piece of wood in the foreft, fhall be unclean for three days. 70. For a child under the of three years, the ceremony with water shall not be performed by his kindred; but, if his teeth be com

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pletely grown, or a name have been given him, ⚫ they may perform it, or not, at their option.

71. A fellow ftudent in theology being dead, 'three days of impurity are ordained; and, on the birth of a famánódaca, purification is re'quired for three nights.

72.

'The relations of betrothed but unmarried damfels, are in three days made pure; and, in as many, are their paternal kinsmen purified after their marriage:

73. Let them eat vegetable food without factitious, that is, only with native, falt; let 'them bathe for three days at intervals; let 'them taste no fleshmeat; and let them fleep apart on the ground.

74. This rule, which ordains impurity by 'reason of the dead, relates to the cafe of one dying near his kinfmen; but, in the cafe of one

dying at a distance, the following rule must be obferved by thofe, who share the fame cake, and ' by those, who share only the fame water:

75. The man, who hears that a kinfman is • dead in a distant country, becomes unclean, if ten days after the death have not paffed, for ⚫ the remainder of those ten days only;

76. But, if the ten days have elapfed, he is 'impure for three nights, and, if a year have expired, he is purified merely by touching < water.

77. 'If, after the lapse of ten days, he know the death of a kinsman, or the birth of a male child, he must purify himself by bathing to'gether with his clothes.

78. Should a child, whose teeth are not grown, or should a famánódaca, die in a diftant region, the kinfman, having bathed with his • apparel, becomes immediately pure.

79. 'If, during the ten days, another death ' or another birth intervene, a Bráhmen remains impure, only till those ten days have elapsed.

80. A spiritual teacher being dead, the fages 'declare his pupil impure for three days; but for a day and a night, if the fon or wife of

the teacher be deceafed: fuch is the facred or

'dinance.

81. For a reader of the whole Veda, who 'dwells in the same house, a man is unclean three nights; but for a maternal uncle, a pupil, an officiating priest, and a distant kinsman, only ' one night winged with two days.

82. On the death of a military king, in whofe dominion he lives, his impurity lafts while the fun or the ftars give light; but it lafts ' a whole day, on the death of a priest, who has not read the whole Véda, or of a fpiritual 'guide, who has read only part of it, with its Angas.

83.

A man of the facerdotal clafs becomes

pure in ten days; of the warlike, in twelve; of the commercial, in five; of the fervile, in a • month.

84. Let no man prolong the days of impurity; let him not intermit the ceremonies to be ' performed with holy fires; while he performs thofe rites, even though he be a fapinda, he is ⚫ not impure.

85. He, who has touched a Chandála, a wo'man in her courses, an outcaft for deadly fin,

a newborn child, a corpfe, or one who has touched a corpfe, is made pure by bathing.

water, and been long intent on his devotion, he fee an unclean perfon, let him repeat, as well

as he is able, the folar texts of the Véda, and thofe, which confer purity.

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87. Should a Bráhmen touch a human bone ' moist with oil, he is purified by bathing; if it 'be not oily, by ftroking a cow, or by looking

at the fun, having sprinkled his mouth duly with water.

88. A ftudent in theology fhall not perform 'the ceremony of pouring water at obfequies, ⚫ until he have completed his course of religious acts; but if, after the completion of them, he thus make an offering of water, be becomes 'pure in three nights.

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89. For those, who discharge not their pre'fcribed duties, for those, whose fathers were of

a lower class than their mothers, for those, who wear a dress of religion unauthorized by the Véda, and for thofe, who illegally kill them'felves, the ceremony of giving funeral water is forbidden by law;

90. And for women imitating fuch here

ticks, as wear an unlawful drefs, and for fuch

women as live at their own pleasure, or have 'caused an abortion, or have ftricken their hufbands, or have drunk any fpirituous liquor.

91.. A ftudent violates not the rules of his order, by carrying out, when dead, his own