Smriti means 18 hence there are total 18 Smritis and Bhagavad Gita is also a Smriti. The Smritis are based on the teachings of the Vedas. Parashara Smriti (also called Parashara Dharma Saṃhitā) is a code of laws which is stated in the text to be for Kali Yuga and Brahmins claim the present time is Kali Yuga it made me read it. The Smritis are based on the teachings of the Vedas. It lays down the laws which regulate Hindu national, social, family and individual obligations.

The more I read Parashara Smriti, the more I am convinced that Hinduism (Brahminism) can’t be reformed and no one should even waste time on reforming it. Some things are better dead than alive.

Let me start with giving a bit of information about some names/terms used in Parashara Smriti and a brief about the whole Smriti. A Kricchhra consists in reciting the Gayatri verse ten thousand times. Krichchhra-chandrayana, Krichchhra-santapana, Prajapatya, Chandrayana etc were different types of fasts which one should observe for so and so many days keeping such and such traditions and taking bath sometimes 12 times a day to get rid of sins. In some of these, eating cow dung was also prescribed!

Urine of the cow, cow-dung, milk, curd, and ghee, these five are the five articles derived from a cow, some verses mention five articles so keep these items in mind.  Urine of a black cow ought to be taken; dung of a white cow; milk of a copper-coloured cow; and curd from the milk of a blood-coloured one; the ghee from the milk of a tawny cow; or all the five may be taken from a tawny cow. The cow’s urine should be gathered, with the recitation of the Gayatri verse; the cow-dung, with the verse beginning with the word ‘gandhadvaram’!

You will read about horse-sacrifice is commanded sometimes to get rid of sins acquired by killing a Brahmin.

Parashara Smriti written by Parashara is full of hatred against Shudras and Dalits and these Brahmins have built temples in his name all over India. All these temples should be demolished.

Most of the times Shoodras become pure by gifting Brahmins some stuff or cows! Women are not free, hell lots of restrictions and controlling methods discussed in the book. You get impure when someone is born in your home! Brahmin never gets impure, keep on touching his feet! On occasions Smriti says, a Shoodra is pure by the making of a gift only e.g. in case of bitten by worms, Shoodra is pure by making a gift to Brahmin!

The whole Smriti is about glorifying Brahmins and demeaning other varnas and whole women society. No matter how idiot Brahmin is, he is still better than others. This is what the centre point of the whole book.

Take for example, while writing about how Brahmin councils to deliver justice should be formed, book starts from 5 Brahmins with blah blah qualities can form council or 4 Brahmins with blah blah qualities can form council or 3 Brahmins with blah blah qualities can form council or 2 Brahmins with blah blah qualities can form council and no matter even if other varnas are capable, they can’t form council to deliver justice. Isn’t it still going on? Courts in India are full of Brahmin judges.

Apart from a whole chapter 9 dedicated to ‘Service to cow’, throughout the book, there are various verses in which cow is glorified and how one should give respect to cow and follow the footsteps of cows. Offer cows to Brahmins. How one should use all his strength to get the cow out of the ditch if she falls. How killing a cow would lead to sins, punishments involved for injuring cows and saving a life of cow can get your sins washed. What kind of ropes you should use to tie cows and much more nonsense, literally. I wonder if this is a religious book of cows or do-it-yourself farming guide! How one should not conceal killing of the cow from Brahmin, otherwise will go to hell. Pay Brahmins and get punishment and you will be saved, this is what chapter 9 talks about.

In many cases as a punishment, there is shaving of the head but there is a way out by paying double fees to Brahmins! Another thing that must be noticed is how it is still followed, every now and then we can hear how Dalits’ heads were shaved and paraded in the village/city.

When drinking, should any water issue from the mouth and drop into the vessel; that should be considered as not fit to be drunk; one must perform the Chandrayana penance for it.

It justifies child marriages by making parents feel guilt and shame.

It justifies that women in the monthly course are impure and maybe that’s why we see that in so-called upper caste houses even today they don’t let women during their monthly period to go to kitchens.

Further, it is interesting to read how Parashara Smriti asks people from other caste groups when they are bitten by worms to purify with cow urine and cow dung but for Shudra and Chandala purity comes by giving gifts to Brahmins! Further purity for Shudra women while in her period is also achieved by giving gifts to Brahmins but for other groups such Brahmins, Kashatriya etc it is through fast or purity comes automatically after certain days! They enslaved us justifying with their religious scriptures.

You Thought Manusmriti is the Worst? Read Casteist, Anti Women and Nonsense Verses from Parashara Smriti Before Deciding

Chapter – 1

64. The highest virtue for a Shoodra is to serve the members of the regenerate castes. Fruitless for him is everything else that he may do.

65. Salt, honey and oil, curded milk, whey, and milk all these are not polluted by the touch of persons of the Shoodra caste. Shoodra may sell these to all the castes.

66. By selling Wine and meat, by consuming prohibited foods,cohabiting with prostitutes a shoodra falls from his caste.

67. By drinking the milk of a tawny cow, by cohabiting with a woman of the Brahman caste, by discussing the sense of the words of the Veda, a Shoodra becomes a Chandala (Lowest sect)

45. Where a guest goes back from a person’s house, ‘ — his hope of a welcome unfulfilled, — the forefathers of the householder do not eat, during the period of ten years and five.

59. To eat one’s meals with his head wrapped round, or with his face towards the south, or with his hand on his left foot, or while he is standing up — is to imitate the manners of the Rakshasa class of beings.

Chapter 2

1. 2. Now, I shall explain, conformably to what Parasara formerly propounded, the law relating to the duties and observances prescribed for a householder, in the age of Kali ; also the rules of conduct, which, being common to all, are suited to the four castes and stages of life, so far as they are able to follow. A Brahman who regularly performs the six ceremonies, may also betake himself to agriculture. [The six ceremonies have been enumerated in ch. I., S’loka 39. Madhava says that the causal form ‘ karayet,’ in connection with the practice of agriculture allowed in the Kali to the priestly class, has a special meaning: — he says that a Brahmana must employ ploughmen of the lower caste in carrying on his agricultural operations; he is not permitted himself to hold the plough.]

12. By making a gift of one-sixth part to the sovereign of the land, one twenty-first for the sake of the gods, and one-thirtieth to the Brahman caste, one is freed from all sins.

14. Abandoning the service of the regenerate castes, the Shoodras who betake to improper occupations become short-lived beings, and undoubtedly go to hell.

4. An able-bodied bull, free from disease, well-fed and hearty, and not impotent, should be made to work for half the day. Then should one give the bull a wash.

11. He who refrains from making gifts to Brahmans, when he stands at the foot of the heaped-up paddy, is a thief; he is the most wicked of all possible sinners ; he should be proclaimed as a Brahman-killer.

Chapter – 3

1. Now I shall speak of the term of impurity resulting on the occurrence of a birth, or a death. Brahmans in three days become pure again, when a relative has died, or has been born.

2. A Kshatriya recovers purity in twelve days ; a Vaisya, when fifteen days have passed ; a Shoodra, after the lapse of a month ; this is conformable to what Parasara has said.

3. So far as the performance of worship is concerned, a Brahman’s corporeal frame is (always) held in purity. In the case of pollution by a birth, it is allowable to touch the body of a Brahman who has been polluted by such a cause.

7. If the relatives are sprang from the same progenitor, (but of a higher caste), and from a mother of an inferior caste, the above rule of impurity should be followed by them, when either a birth or a death has taken place.

11. If information arrives that a person of the same family has died in a country other than his native land, — then the rule of three days or of one day does not obtain; then the relatives are purified by bathing themselves on that very day.

13. If the child should perish, while yet in the womb, or should be miscarried, — then the woman has an impurity of as many days, as would be equal to the number of months the child had been in the womb.

For those who died in the course of doing service to the Brahman caste, or while rescuing women, or cows being carried away by force, or in battles, — the impurity lasts only for a single night.

26. The sun trembles from his place on seeing a brahmana who has taken sanyasa.This sanyasi pierces the solar orb and reaches the ultimate position of brahman.

27. Where a Brahman from ignorance follows the corpse of one who belongs to the military caste, he becomes impure for a single night, and purifies himself by eating the fivefold products of a cow. [These are, milk, curd, clarified butter, cow’s urine and cowdung.]

If a Brahman, with a feeble knowledge of law, should follow a corpse of the Shoodra caste, while the same is being carried to the burning-ground, he shall become impure for full three nights.

When the period of three nights is complete, he should repair to a river that falls into the sea ; there a hundred Pranayamas are to be practised by him ; hereafter he eats clarified butter, and restores him to purity again.

Chapter – 4

5 and 6. The Brahmans who touch the corpse of a person killed by cows or bulls, or of one who hanged himself, or of one whose death was caused by a person of the Brahman caste; and those who carry the corpse, or set fire to it; or those other persons who follow the corpse ; and also those who cut down the rope ; all should purify themselves by a Taptakrichchhra ; and then a number of Brahmans should be fed by them. By way of a gratuity they should give to a Brahman, a cow accompanied by a bull able to draw a cart.

Hot water should be drunk for three days , hot milk for three ; hot ghee for three ; and air should be the sole subsistence for the next three days. Seven palas (a pala = 4 tolas) is the quantity of water to be drunk ; three palas that of the milk to be drunk ; a single ‘ pala is the measure of the ghee. This rule governs the penance Taptakfichchhra

If a woman meets not her lord, on the day that her monthly courses stop, — she after death goes to hell, — and becomes a widow in repeated births.

If the husband meets not his wife on the day that her monthly courses cease, and she be near at hand, he incurs the awful sin of having killed a foetus. There is not the slightest doubt herein.

If a woman, during her husband’s life, observes a religious vow which involves a fast,that woman thereby shortens her husband’s life, and after death goes to hell.

If a woman performs a religious rite, without taking her husband’s consent, it is the Rakshasas who appropriate the whole of that religious rite. This is in conformity to what Manu has said.

An elder brother remaining unmarried while a younger marries, and that same younger brother himself who marries before his elder brother, and the woman who becomes the wife of such a younger brother, together with the person who gives away the bride, and the priest who officiates at the marriage, — all these are doomed to hell.

If a woman follows her departed lord, by burning herself on the same funeral pile, she will dwell in heaven for as many years as there are hairs on the human frame, — which reach the number of three crores and a half.

Chapter 5

1. If a superior Brahman is bitten by a wolf, or by a dog, or a jackal, or the like, he should wash himself, and should inaudibly recite the Gayatri verse, the holy mother of the vedic hymns.

Chapter – 6

9. For killing a mouse, a cat, a snake, a monster snake, or the dundubha snake, a number of Brahmans should be fed with krisara, (Khichri, — rice, ghee and peas or sesamum cooked together,) and the gratuity should be an iron rod.

16. If a woman, an artist, or a mechanic, be killed, two prajapatyas is the penance prescribed, and the gratuity is a bull and ten cows.

17. Should one kill an innocent member of the military caste, or a similar Vaisya, he should expiate it by a double atikrichchhra, and a gratuity of twenty heads of cattle,

19. If a Brahman should ever happen to kill any person of the Chandala caste, let him perform a Krichchhra prajapatya; and give a gratuity of two cows.

[Krichchhra prajapatya – type of fast/vrat]

20. If a person belonging to the Chandala caste, should happen to be killed by one of the Kshatriya tribe, or by a Vaisya, or by a Shoodra, the slayer becomes pure by half a krichchhra.

In all Krichchhra Vrat one should not shave head, take bath, do Havan and worship Hari. Whoever is doing Krichchhra Vrat, if he stands in the day time, and sit in the night time, it is called “Veeraasan”. A man becomes sinless by doing this Vrat.

21. If a thief, a Svapaka, or a Chandala, comes to be killed by one of the Brahmin caste, the murderer may purify himself by fasting for an entire day, and by tasting the five articles derived from a cow.

23. For sleeping together with many of the Chandala caste, let a Brahman fast for full three nights. If he treads a path that a Chandala has trodden, his sin is removed by a remembrance of the Gayatri verse

24. On seeing a Chandala, let him look at the sun without a moment’s delay. For touching a Chandala, let him bathe with his clothing on.

25. If a Brahman drinks water from a tank excavated by a Chandala, and if it be done without knowledge, he will be pure by omitting one meal ; else it is necessary to fast for a day.

26. For drinking water raised from a well, into which a Chandala’s pot has been dipped, purity may be restored by drinking for three nights cow’s urine in which half-ripe barley has been blended.

27. If a Brahman drinks water contained in a Chandala’s jar, provided he throws it up then and there, he will have to observe the prajiipatya penance.

30 — 31. If a Brahman, a Kshatriya, a Vaisya, or a Shoodra, should by inadvertence drink water, or curd, or milk contained in the vessel of the lowest castes ; — then the regenarrates are purified by Brahmakoorcha and a fast ; a Shoodra by a fast and by making gifts, so far as his ability extends. [Madhava cites a verse mentioning the following seven as the ‘ lowest castes ‘, or ‘ antyaja ‘, as they are called : — the washerman, the worker in leather, the actor, the Varuda (probably the betelgrower), the fisherman, the Meda, and the Bheel.]

32. When a Brahman through ignorance chances to eat any food that belongs to one of the Chandala caste, he should purify himself by living on half-ripe barley and cow’s urine for ten nights.

35. Brahmans well-versed in the rules of law and thoroughly conversant with all the Vedas, should propound rules which have emanated from the mouths of saints, and rescue the sinking sinner from his sin.

[Editor – Then author describes what he needs to do to get purify such as fast, taking bath at particular time, donating to Brahmins etc. from verse 36 to 40]

41. Having done all this, he should thereafter gratify the Brahmans with food ; and the gratuity prescribed to be given them is thirty cows, and a single bull.

42. The ground itself is rendered pure, by being plastered anew, by digging up, by offerings made on the fire, or by the recitation of the sacred words ; it loses its pollution also by the Brahmans having rested their feet upon it.

43. In case of association for a month or half a month, with persons belonging to the Chandala caste, purity returns by living on cow’s urine, wherewith unripe barley is mixed, during the period of half a month

44 — 45. If a washerwoman, or a woman of the caste that works in leather, or of the hunter, or of the fowler caste, or of that works in bamboo, should live unknown in the house of one who belongs to any of the four chief castes ; — then, when the fact is known, the process for purification is half of what has been described above ; the house, however, need not be burnt ; but the rest of the foregoing ceremony must necessarily be performed

46. If a Chandala should enter the inside of any one’s house, he must be turned out from the abode, and all the earthen vessels should be thrown away.

47. But an earthen vessel filled with an oily substance need not be thrown away. The house should be washed with cow-dung and water, mixed together.

49. A person who has been bitten by worms, should for three days wash himself with cow- dung and with the urine of the cow, and with curd and milk, and with ghee; he should swallow the same ; he would thus become pure.

50. A Kshatriya too, should become pure, by making a gift of five mashas of gold. For a Vaisya, the prescribed penance is, — the gratuity of a cow, and likewise a fast.

Verse 51-54

When the Brahmans, who are the divinities of the earth, utter the words, — * all has been rightly performed ‘ — the same should be accepted with an obeisance and bending of the head ; for in the said utterance from a Brahman’s mouth are gathered the fruits of an agnishtoma rite. The defects in the performance of any religious rite, whether recitation, or austerities, or the performance of a sacrificial rite — are all removed, if the Brahmans signify the approval thereof. If the sinner be ill, or in distress, or fatigued, or in times of I scarcity or civil commotion, — the fast, the austerities and ! offerings are vicariously performed by employing a Brahman. Or the Brahmans in a body, may, out of grace, sow an indulgence to the sinful man.

58 — 60. For thereby is impeded a momentous duty. But this rule applies not to a healthy man. If, however, the prescribers of expiation, from ignorance of the law, vicariously perform the penance for a healthy man, and propound this rule for even him, they obstruct the real expiation of the sinful man, and sink into an impure region of woe. If a person disregards the instructions a Brahman gives, and if he performs the expiation just a^ it pleases himself, his fast is fruitless ; he never wins any religious merit. The form of expiation, which even a single Brahman thinks fit to prescribe, should be accepted by all.

61 — 62. The sayings of Brahmans must receive acceptance ; otherwise is incurred the sin of killing a child in the womb. The Brahmans are peripatetic places of pilgrimage, so are righteous persons ; what they utter is like the water from a holy pool. It washes the sins of uncleanly men. What the Brahmans say is respected by the deities themselves.

63 — 66. In a Brahman are united all the gods. What he says never turns false. Whether a fast, or a recitation, or an act of washing one’s self, or a religious rite, pilgrimage, or an act of some austerity, if it be performed vicariously by a Brahman for another, all its objects are sure to be gained. If there be worms in any food, or if the food be polluted with flies or the like, — water should be touched in the midst of eating the food, and the food itself should be touched with ashes. If a Brahman, while eating, should touch his foot with his hand, he eats the leavings of another person ; and likewise he who eats off a broken plate. One should not eat, while he is wearing his shoes, nor while reclining upon a bed, nor while he is standing up.

67 — 69. Articles of food which have been looked at by a dog, or by a person of the Chandala caste, should be thrown away. What food is forbidden, and what the purification is for polluted food, I am going to tell you, just as Parasara has propounded it. If it is food, which has been already cooked, where its quantity equals an Dhaka or a droids a, and is polluted by contact with a crow or a dog, the owner of the polluted food should present himself before a number of Brahmans, and should submissively ask them how the food should be rendered pure. But a quantity of food equal to a drona in measure, though it be touched by the mouth of a crow or a dog-, should never be thrown away as unclean food.

Chapter 7

3. If an elongated tank, or a well, or a reservoir, becomes unclean on any account, a hundred jars of water should be drawn and thrown away, and the remainder is rendered pure by mixing with it the five articles derived from a cow. [Viz., urine, dung, ghee, milk and curd.]

5. When the twelfth year is reached by the female child, if the guardian does not give her away in marriage, her forefathers drink, without interruption, during each succeeding month, whatever blood is passed in her courses.

6. The mother, and the father, and likewise the eldest brother, all these three relatives will go to hell, if before menstruation they neglect to marry the girl.

7. If a Brahman, deluded by ignorance and pride, comes to marry a girl of the aforesaid kind, he does not deserve to be spoken to ; food should never be partaken in company with him : that Biahman becomes the husband of a Shoodra girl.

8. To remove the sin which a Brahman incurs by enjoying a Shoodra female for a single night, he must for three years subsist on alms, and daily recite sacred hymns.

9. Where after sunset, a Chandala or a degraded man, or a woman in her confinement, or a corpse, has been touched — if the question be, what is the method of purifying one’s self?

10. By looking at the fire, likewise at gold, and at the path by which the moon traverses the sky, and by washing himself when Brahmans have given permission to him, the sinner is rendered free from sin.

14. If one of two women be of the Brahman caste, and the other belong to the Shoodra tribe, — both being in their monthly courses then, and if they happen to touch each other’s person, — the first must observe a Krichchhra penance, while the second becomes pure by making a gift.

18. On the first day that the blood begins to flow, the woman is comparable to a female Chandala ; on the second, she is like a Brahmanicide ; on the third, she may be likened to a washerwoman. On the fourth day, * however, she is entirely pure.

20. While a Brahman has not washed himself after taking his meals, if he chances to be touched by another yet unwashed after a meal, or by a dog, or by a Shoodra, he should fast for a single night, and then swallow the five articles derived from a cow, whereby purity is restored to- him.

23. Bronze vessels smelt by a cow, or polluted by a dog or a crow, or if a Shoodra has made them unclean by eating off them, are rendered pure, when they have been ten times rubbed with ashes.

30. Cats, flies, insects, moths, worms, and frogs, come in contact with both what is pure and what is the reverse of pure; but their contact transmits no impurity. So Manu has said.

31. By pouring water to the ground, the half drunk water by other brahmanas become pure to be consumed as per Manu.

Chapter – 8, Explanation of Practice of Dharma

6. Where one, unacquainted with the Institutes of Law, prescribes an expiation for sin, the sinner is rendered pure — but the sin is transferred to the prescriber.

7. If four or three Brahmans, whose knowledge of the Veda is thorough and complete, unite in expounding a rule of law, — the exposition is to be taken as the law to be followed ; — not what is declared by a thousand men of a different character.

21. The Brahmans who habitually study the Veda, and are constant in performing the five sacrificial rites, even though addicted to sensual pleasure, are able to deliver all the three worlds.

25. Even a Brahman of a bad character deserves repect; but not so a Shoodra, even though his passions may have been subdued by him. Who would quit a wicked cow, and try to milk a docile female ass?

26. The institutes of law form the car on which the Brahman mounts ; the Veda is the sword which he wields ; whatsoever he says is to be taken as the highest rule of law,

29. If the king intends to lay down the law, disregarding what the Brahmans say, — the sin is multiplied a hundredfold, and, so increased, affects the king

35. He who loses his life for a Brahman’s sake, or on a cow’s behalf, is freed from the sin of killing a Brahman; so also is he who has saved the life of a Brahman or a cow.

[Having killed a cow, how to get rid of the sins.]

41. When the penance has been finished, Brahmans should have a feast given them ; and a gratuity too is to be given them; and the Brahmans should inaudibly recite the purificatory sacred hymns.

42. The killer of a cow, who has feasted the members of the Brahman caste, will undoubtedly be free from sin.

Chapter – 9 [Service to cows]

53. If the defaulter be a king, or the son of a king, or a learned Brahman, — the penance to prescribe in their case is, that they may dispense with the shaving of the hair.

58. In this world, if a person, who has been guilty of the sin of killing a cow, makes an attempt to conceal the fact, undoubtedly he goes to the frightful hell Kalasutra.

59. Released from that hell, he is born again in the mortal world, a feeble and impotent man, leprous and wretched, for seven successive existences.

Chapter 10

[After serving punishment pay Brahmins!]

4. Having performed the penance, a feast should be given to Brahmans ; a pair of clothes, and a couple of cattle, form the fee for the Brahmans,

5. Should a regenerate man commit adultery with a woman of the Chandala or Svapaka caste, he should, by order of Brahmans, fast for three successive nights.

6. And Parasara has declared, that the fee to be given is a couple of cows, whereby freedom from the sin is obtained. Should a Kshatriya or a Vaishya, cohabit with a woman of the Chandala caste,

7. He is to perform a double Prajapatya, and to pay a fee of two couples of cattle, each couple to include a female and a male.

8. If a Shoodra commits an act of guilt with a woman of the Chandala or Svapaka caste, he must perform the prajapatya penance, and give a fee of four couples of cattle, each couple to include a female and a male.

11. On sexual union with a father’s wife, or a near relative of the mother, or a brother’s daughter, or the preceptor’s wife, a son’s wife, or the wife of a brother, or the wife of a brother of the mother, or any woman of the same gotra, a three-fold Prajapatya is the expiation prescribed; a couple of cattle is the fee to be given. Thus the sinner undoubtedly gets rid of his sin.

[No wonder you hear every now and then Brahmins raping goats and cows, you just need to fast as a punishment, read below verses.]

12. On carnal intercourse with a beast, or a prostitute and the like, or with a female buffalo, or with a female camel, or with a she monkey, or with a sow, or a female ass, one should perform the Prajapatya penance.

[Trying to put cows on the top of other animals]

13. On carnal intercourse with a cow, the sin is removed by three nights’ fast; a cow should be presented to a Brahman as fee. On carnal connection with a female buffalo, a female camel or an ass, the sin is removed by one night’s fast.

15. If a woman has associated with persons of the Chandale caste, — then a meeting of not less than ten Brahmans should be assembled, and she should proclaim her sin before them.

16. A well should be made, deep enough to sink as far as the neck, and full of cow-dung and water and mud; the woman should fast and stay within the well; and should come out at the end of an entire day and night.

17. She is to shave her head, including even the coronal hair; she is to eat unripe barley mixed with water; she is to fast for three successive nights, and stay in water for a single night.

19. So long as she performs the penance, she is to dwell outside the house; after the penance has been fully performed, she should give a feast to Brahmans. For fee she should give a couple of cattle. This is the purification declared by Manu, the self-existent’s son.

20. For a woman of any one of the four castes, if she is guilty of a sexual union with a Chandala, the purification is a Chandrayana. As the earth is, so is a woman; she therefore should not be regarded as wholly unclean.

[Wonder all the talk about the girls should be stopped from drinking, wearing jeans and blah blah, read below verses] [Why Brahmins eat cow dung, the verse answers.]

23. If a person’s wife drinks spirituous liquor, half his body becomes polluted by sin ; there can be no expiation for him, half whose body has become polluted by sin. But he should perform a Krichchra-sdntapana, while all along reciting the Gayatri hymn.

Note – 24. A Krichchhra-santapana consists in eating cow-dung, cow’s urine, milk, curd, ghee, and water in which kusa grass has been dipped, and likewise a fast for a single night.

25. If a woman becomes pregnant with her paramour, at a time when her husband is dead, or is missing; — she being a wicked and a degraded woman, should be carried to the territory of a different king, and be abandoned there.

31. If a Brahman female goes away, although not accompanied by a paramour, still her relatives must give her up, for fear that she may have had, after her departure from the house, sexual intercourse with a hundred men.

32. To whatever house a polluted Brahman woman goes in company of a paramour, — whether her husband’s, or father’s, or mother’s or paramour’s house, — the house itself becomes impure by reason of her presence.

[How to get pure, next verses tell -]

33. That house should be scraped, and then wetted with the five articles derived from a cow ; all the earthen vessels should be thrown away; and the clothing and the wood should be purified.

34. All furniture should be purified in the prescribed form; vessels made with shells of fruit are to be rubbed with the hair of the cow; copper vessels should be purified with the five articles derived from a cow, and those of white copper by ten times rubbing them with ashes.

35. A Brahman should perform the penance propounded by other Brahmans; he should give a fee of a couple of cattle; and should perform a double Prajapatya. For the others, the purification is a fast for a day and night, and swallowing the five articles derived from a cow.

Chapter – 11

1. If a Brahman has partaken of any impure food, or has swallowed virile seed, or beef, or a Chandala’s food, he should perform a Krichchhra-chandrayana.

2. If it be a Kshatriya or a Vaishya, he should perform half a Chandrayana. If a Shoodra has committed a sin of the above character, he should perform a Prajapatya.

3. A Shoodra should swallow the five articles derived from a cow; a regenerate man should drink Brahmakoorccha. The fee to be given is one, two, three or four cows, in the order of castes, — beginning with the Brahman.

13. When a Shoodra gives a feast, a Brahman may eat ghee or milk or sesamum oil or any food cooked in some oily substance, — provided he goes to the bank of a river to eat it.

14. If a Shoodra be addicted to flesh meat and spirituous drinks, and constantly engaged in low occupations — he, like a member of the 8’vajpdha caste, should be shunned by a Brahman from afar.

16 — 17. If a Brahman unwittingly partakes of food belonging “to one who is unclean on account of impurity caused by birth or death,— what should be the expiation having reference to each particular caste? In case of a Shoodra’s food, unclean on account of impurity by birth, — the purification is the recitation of the Gayatri hymn for eight thousand times ; — in case of a Vaishya, five thousand times; — in case of a Kshatriya, three thousand times.

20. If at a time of distress, a Brahman has eaten in a Shoodra’s house, he becomes pure by repentance; — or he should one hundred times recite the verse of the Veda named the Drupada.

38. The god Varuna is in the urine of the cow; the god of sacrificial fire in the cow-dung; the god of wind in the curd; the moon in the milk; and the sun in the ghee.

51. If ‘ hum ‘ (an exclamation of disrespect) be addressed to a Brahman; or if a superior be addressed with ‘ thee and thou; ‘ one should bathe, and fast for the rest of the day; should bow down, and beg pardon.

52. If one strikes a Brahman even with a wisp of grass, or drags him with a piece of cloth thrown around his neck; or wins even a lawsuit against him; he should bow down and beg pardon.

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1. After dreaming a bad dream, or vomiting, or shaving, or sexual intercourse, or contact with smoke from a funeral pile, the purification is to wash oneself.

6. The three (inferior) castes are rendered pure by a double Prajapatya, by a pilgrimage to holy places, and by a gift of ten cows accompanied by a bull.

19. After sneezing, spitting, touching the teeth, or telling a lie, or holding conversation with sinful men, one should touch his right ear.

20. Fire, water, the gods, the moon, the sun, and the wind, all dwell in the right ear of a Brahman.

21. Bathing in the daytime, while being purified by the rays of the sun, is the approved form of bathing. Bathing at night is not approved unless when the Rahu is visible in the heavens.

27. A tree on a burning-ground, a funeral pile, pus, a Chandala, and a seller of the Soma plant ; having touched any of these, — a Brahman should plunge into water with his clothing on.

28. Before the gathering of bones, one, having wept, should perform the ceremony of bathing. For a Brahman, (the gathering bones) should be performed within the tenth day Achamana should be performed after it.

32. Therefore, for fear of being turned into a Shoodra, every Endeavour should be made, particularly by a Brahman, to study at least a portion of the Veda, (every day) in case he is unable to study the whole.

34. To eat a Shoodra’s food, to associate with him, to sit in the same place with, him, and receive knowledge by his instruction, would cause degradation even to one who resembles the kindled fire.

35. A Brahman who gets his food habitually cooked by a Shoodra woman, or has got a Shoodra woman for the matron of his house, is shunned by the pitrus and the gods, and goes to the hell called Battrava.

36. If a Brahman fattens himself with the food of a Shoodra polluted by the impurity of birth or death, I do not know what (vile) animals he will be born (in subsequent lives).

37. Twelve times he will be born as a vulture ; ten times as a hog ; seven times as a dog ; this is what Manu has said.

41. While Brahmans are eating together, if one out of them leaves his plate before the others have finished their meal, he is a dunce ; he is the worst of sinners ; he is declared to be the killer of a Brahman.

46. A person who preserves his sacred fire, a tawny cow, a person engaged in offering a sacrifice, a king, a religious mendicant, and the great ocean, — the very sight of these purifies one ; therefore one should constantly obtain a sight of them.

48. A piece of land, upon which may stand, without being closely tied, a hundred cows, and a single bull — ten times the area of such a field -is called a gocharma (cow’s hide) of land.

49. By making a gift of a gocharma quantity of land, a person is freed from all sins, such as the killing of a Brahman, and like other sins, which he may have committed, by word of mouth, or in thought, or in deed.

52. If a woman is in menstruation within eighteen days from the last time she was, simple bathing will purify her ; if after that period, the saint Ushanas has declared that the rule of three nights must be observed.

53. A person becomes impure by approaching a Handclap, a woman in confinement, a woman in menstruation, or a degraded sinner, within the distance of a yoke, or two yokes, or three yokes, or four yokes, in the reverse order. (A yoke is a particular measure of length.)

54. If a Brahman comes nearer than the aforesaid lengths, he should bathe with his clothing on; if, unwittingly he comes in contact (with any of them), he should bathe, and then look at the sun.

59. If a Brahman eats the food of a wicked Brahman addicted to forbidden deeds, he must observe one day’s fast,

60,. Within the same day, he may become pure, if he would eat the food of a Brahman who leads a religious life, and is versed in the Veda and its branches.

63. If a householder willingly causes the discharge of his virile seed otherwise than in sexual intercourse, he should recite the Gayathri verse one thousand times, and should perform three Pranayamas.

(Pranayama is the formal practice of controlling the breath.)

76. If a Brahman has drunk wine only once, he must drink flaming hot spirituous liquor ; thereby he will purify himself, both as regards this world, and as regards the other world.

79. As a drop of oil spreads over the water, — so is sin transmitted from one person to another, by reason of sitting, sleeping, travelling, talking, and eating together with a sinner.

81. This compilation of the ordinances of law, consisting of five hundred and ninety-two slokas, is the work of Parasara.

82. In accordance with the rules for studying (similar works), these institutes of law should be carefully studied, without fail, by a person who desires to go to heaven.

83. Must be read sincerely who wish to attain Swarga!