The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

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VISHMJ.

XXII, 7-

7. No one must eat the food of one impure
(unless he be a SapiWa of his).
8. He who eats but once the food of Brahma/zas
or others, while they are impure, will remain impure
as long as they.
9. When the (period of) impurity is over, he
must perform a penance (as follows):
10. If a twice-born man has eaten (the food) of a
member of his own caste, while the latter was im-
pure, he must approach a river and plunge into it,
mutter the (hymn of) Aghamarshazza 1 three times,
and, after having emerged from the water, must
mutter the Gayatri2 one thousand and eight times.
11. If a Brahmazza has eaten the food of a Ksha-
triya, while the latter was impure, he is purified by
performing the same penance and by fasting (on
the previous day).
12. (The same penance is ordained for) a Ksha-
triya who has eaten the food of aVahya, while the
latter was impure.
13. (The same penance is ordained for) a Brah-
mazza (who has eaten the food) of an impure
Vahya; but he must fast besides during the three
(previous) days.
14. If a Kshatriya or aVahya (have eaten the
food) of a Brahmazza or a Kshatriya respectively,
who were impure, they must approach a river and
mutter the Gayatri five hundred times.
15. A Yahya, who has eaten the food of a Brah-
mazza, while the latter was impure, must (go to a
river and) mutter the Gayatri one hundred and
eight times.

10. 1 Rig-veda X, 190. —2 Rig-veda III, 62, 10.