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72. The relations of betrothed but unmarried dam- CHAP.

sels, are in three days made pure; and, in as many,

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are their paternal kinsmen purified after their marriage:

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

74. This rule, which ordains impurity by reason of the dead, relates to the case of one dying near 'his kinsmen; but, in the case of one dying at a dis'tance, the following rule must be observed by those, ' who share the same cake, and by those, who share 6 only the same water:

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

76. But, if the ten days have elapsed, 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 together with his ' clothes.

78. Should a child, whose teeth are not grown, 'or should a samánódaca, die in a distant region, the

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kinsman, having bathed with his apparel, becomes V. immediately pure.

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

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80. A spiritual teacher being dead, the sages declare his pupil impure for three days; but for a day and a night, if the son or wife of the teacher be deceased: such is the sacred ordinance.

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 whose do'minion he lives, his impurity lasts while the sun or the stars give light; but it lasts a whole day, on the death of a priest, who has not read the whole Véda, or of a spiritual guide, who has read only part of it, with its Angas.

83. A man of the sacerdotal class becomes pure in ten days; of the warlike, in twelve; of the com'mercial, in fifteen ;* of the servile, in a month.

84. Let no
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man prolong the days of impurity;
let him not intérmit the ceremonies to be performed
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* See Note on Book V. verse 83.

with holy fires:

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though he be a

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while he performs those rites, even CHAP. sapinda, he is not impure.

85. He, who has touched a Chandála, a woman in her courses, an outcast for deadly sin, a new'born child, a corpse, or one who has touched a corpse, is made pure by bathing.

86. If, having sprinkled his mouth with water, and 'been long intent on his devotion, he see an unclean person, let him repeat, as well as he is able, the 'solar texts of the Véda, and those, which confer purity.

87. Should a Bráhmen touch a human bone moist ' with oil, he is purified by bathing; if it be not oily, by stroking a cow, or by looking at the sun, having sprinkled his mouth duly with water.

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

89. For those, who discharge not their prescribed 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

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those, who illegally kill themselves, the ceremony of

giving funeral water is forbidden by law;

90. And for women imitating such hereticks, as

wear an unlawful dress, and for such women as live

at

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CHAP. at their own pleasure, or have caused an abortion, or have stricken their husbands, or have drunk any spirituous liquor.

91. A student violates not the rules of his order, 5 by carrying out, when dead, his own instructor in 'the Védas, who invested him with his holy cord, or his teacher of particular chapters, or his reverend expounder of their meaning, or his father, or his 6 mother.

92. Let 6 Let men carry out a dead Súdra by the southern gate of the town; but the twice-born, in ' due order, by the western, northern, and eastern 'gates.

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93. No taint of impurity can light on kings or 'students in theology, while employed in discharging their several duties, nor on those who have actually begun a sacrifice; for the first are then placed on the seat of INDRA, and the others are always equally pure with the celestial spirit.

94. To a king, on the throne of magnanimity, the 'law ascribes instant purification, because his throne was raised for the protection of his people and the supply of their nourishment:

95. It is the same with the kinsmen of those, who 'die in battle, after the king has been slain, or have ' been killed by lightning, or legally by the king himself, or in defence of a cow, or of a priest; and ' with all those, whom the king wishes to be pure. 96. The

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96. The corporeal frame of a king is composed CHAP. ' of particles from So'MA, AGNI, SU'RYA, PAVANA, INDRA, CUVE'RA, VARUNA, and YAMA, the eight guardian

' deities of the world:

97. By those guardians of men in substance is the

king pervaded, and he cannot by law be impure; since by those tutelar gods are the purity and impurity of mortals both caused and removed.

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98. By a soldier, discharging the duties of his class, ‹ and slain in the field with brandished weapons, the highest sacrifice is, in that instant, complete; and so is his purification: this law is fixed.

99. 6 A priest, having performed funeral rites, is 'purified by touching water; a soldier, by touching his horse or elephant, or his arms; a husbandman,

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by touching his goad, or the halter of his cattle; a servant, by touching his staff.

100. This mode of purifying sapindas, O chief of 'the twice-born, has been fully declared to you! learn now the purification required on the death of kinsmen less intimately connected.

101. A Bráhmen, having carried out a dead Bráh

men, though not a sapinda, with the affection of a kinsman, or any of those nearly related to him by 'his mother, becomes pure in three days;

102. But, if he taste the food offered by their sapindas, he is purified in ten days; and in one day,

if