95. Inebriating liquor may be confidered as of three principal forts; ⚫ that extracted from dregs of fugar, that extracted from bruised rice, ⚫ and that extracted from the flowers of the Madhúca: as one, fo are ' all; they shall not be tasted by the chief of the twiceborn.

96. Those liquors, and eight other forts, with the flesh of animals, • and A'sava, the most pernicious beverage, prepared with narcotick drugs, are fwallowed at the juncates of Yachas, Racfbafas, and Pifáchas: they fhall not, therefore, be tasted by a Bráhmen, who feeds on clarified butter offered to gods.

97. A Bráhmen, ftupefied by drunkenness, might fall on fomething very impure, or might even, when intoxicated, pronounce a fecret phrase of the Véda, or might do some other act, which ought not to ' be done.

98. When the divine fpirit, or the light of holy knowledge, which ⚫ has been infused into his body, has once been fprinkled with any intoxicating liquor, even his prieftly character leaves him, and he finks to the low degree of a Súdra.

99. THUS have been promulgated the various modes of expiation for drinking fpirits: I will next propound the atonement for stealing the gold of a priest to the amount of a suverna.

100. HE, who has purloined the gold of a Bráhmen, must haften to the king, and proclaim his offence; adding, "Inflict on me the "punishment due to my crime."

101. Then shall the king himself, taking from him an iron mace, • which the criminal must bear on his shoulder, strike him with it once; • and

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⚫ and by that stroke, whether he die or be only left as dead, the thief is re• leased from fin: a Bráhmen by rigid penance alone can expiate that offence; another twiceborn man may also perform fuch a penance at his

• election.

102.

The twiceborn man, who defires to remove by auftere devotion the taint caufed by ftealing gold, muft perform in a forest,

⚫ covered with a mantle of rough bark, the penance before ordained for him, who without malice prepenfe has killed a Bráhmen.

103. By these expiations may the twiceborn atone for the guilt of ftealing gold from a priest; but the fin of adultery with the wife • of a father, natural or Spiritual, they must expiate by the following penances.

104. Hɛ, who knowingly and actually has defiled the wife of his father, he being of the fame class, muft extend himself on a heated ⚫ iron bed, loudly proclaiming his guilt; and, there embracing the red• hot iron image of a woman, he shall atone for his crime by death;

105. Or, having himself amputated his penis and fcrotum, and holding them in his fingers, he may walk in a direct path toward the southwest, or the region of NIRRITI, until he fall dead on the ground:

106. Or, if he had mistaken her for another woman, he may perform ⚫ for a whole year, with intense application of mind, the penance prá• jápatya, with part of a bed, or a human bone, in his hand, wrapped in • vesture of coarse bark, letting his hair and beard grow, and living in a deferted forest:

107. Or,

107. Or, if she was of a lower clafs and a corrupt woman, he may

• expiate the fin of violating the bed of his father, by continuing the

penance chándrayana for three months, always mortifying his body.

by eating only forest herbs, or wild grains boiled in water.

108. By the preceding penances may finners of the two higher

degrees atone for their guilt; and the less offenders may expiate theirs by the following aufterities.

109. HE, who has committed the smaller offence of killing a cow • without malice, muft drink for the first month barleycorns boiled foft in water; his head must be fhaved entirely; and, covered with the • hide of the flain cow, he must fix his abode on her late pasture ground :

110. He may eat a moderate quantity of wild grains, but without any factitious falt, for the next two months at the time of each fourth

repast, on the evening of every second day; regularly bathing in the

⚫ urine of cows, and keeping his members under controul:

111. All day he must wait on the herd, and stand quaffing the duft • raised by their hoofs; at night, having fervilely attended and stroked ' and faluted them, he must surround them with a fence, and fit near ⚫ to guard them :

112. Pure and free from paffion, he must stand, while they stand; follow them, when they move together; and lie down by them, when they lie down :

113. Should a cow be fick or terrified by tigers or thieves, or fall, ⚫ or stick in mud, he must relieve her by all poffible means:

114. In

114. In heat, in rain, or in cold, or while the blast furiously rages, • let him not feek his own shelter, without first sheltering the cows to the utmost of his power

115. Neither in his own houfe, or field, or floor for treading out

grain, nor in those of any other perfon, let him fay a word of a cow,

⚫ who eats corn or grass, or of a calf, who drinks milk:

116. By waiting on a herd, according to these rules, for three months, the flayer of a cow atones for his guilt;

117. But, his penance being performed, he must give ten cows • and a bull, or, his stock not being fo large, must deliver all he poffeffes, to fuch as best know the Véda.

118. THE preceding penances, or that called chándrayana, must be performed for the absolution of all twiceborn men, who have committed fins of the lower or third degree; except those, who have incurred the guilt of an avacírna;

119. But he, who has become Avacirni, muft facrifice a black or a

oneeyed ass, by way of a meatoffering to NIRRITI, patronefs of the fouthwest, by night in a place where four ways meet :

120. Let him daily offer to her in fire the fat of that afs, and,

at the close of the ceremony, let him offer clarified butter, with the

holy text Sem and fo forth, to PAVANA, to INDRA, to VRIHASPATI,

and to AGNI, regents of wind, clouds, a planet, and fire.

121. A voluntary effufion, naturally or otherwife, of that which may produce a man, by a twiceborn youth during the time of his studentship,

studentship, or before marriage, has been pronounced avacírna, or a 'violation of the rule prescribed for the first order, by fages, who ' knew the whole system of duty, and uttered the words of the Véda.

122. To the four deities of purification, MA'RUTA, INDRA, VRĭHAS

PATI, AGNI, goes all the divine light, which the Véda had imparted,

from the ftudent, who commits the foul fin avacírna ;

123. But, this crime having actually been committed, he must go begging to feven houses, clothed only with the hide of the facrificed afs, and openly proclaiming his act :

124. Eating a single meal begged from them, at the regular time ' of the day, that is, in the morning or evening, and bathing each day at 'the three favanas, he shall be abfolved from his guilt at the end of one year.

125. HE, who has voluntarily committed any fin, which caufes a lofs of class, must perform the tormenting penance, thence called 'fántapana; or the prájápatya, if he offended involuntarily.

126. FOR fins, which degrade to a mixed clafs, or exclude from

fociety, the finner must have recourse to the lunar expiation chán

drayana for one month: to atone for acts, which occafion defilement, • he must swallow nothing for three days but hot barleygruel.

127.

For killing intentionally a virtuous man of the military class, ⚫ the penance must be a fourth part of that ordained for killing a priest; for killing a Vailya, only an eighth; for killing a Súdra, who had ⚫ been conftant in difcharging his duties, a fixteenth part :

128. But,