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

90 VISH2VU. XXII, 2g.
25. In a number of nights equal to the number
of months after conception, a woman is purified
from an abortion.
26. The relatives of children that have died
immediately after birth (before the cutting of the
navel-string), and of still-born children, are purified
at once.
27. (The relatives) of a child that has died before
having teethed (are also purified) at once.
28. For him no ceremony with fire is performed,
nor offering of water.
29. For a child that has teethed but has not yet
been shorn, purity is obtained in one day and
night;
30. For a child that has been shorn but not
initiated, in three nights ;
31. From that time forward (i. e. for initiated
persons) in the time that has been mentioned above
(in Sutra 1 seq.)
32. In regard to women, the marriage ceremony
is (considered as their) initiation.
33. For married women there is no impurity for
the relatives on the father’s side.
34. If they happen to stay at their father’s house
during childbirth or if they die there, (their distant
relatives are purified) in one night, and their parents
(in three nights).
35. If, while the impurity caused by a birth lasts,
26. ‘ The meaning is, that the relatives of such children do not
become impure.’ (Nand.)
28. ‘The meaning is, that he must not be burnt.’ (Nand.)
32. The import of this Sutra is this, that the full period of im-
purity is ordained on the death of women also, in case they were
married, as the marriage ceremony takes with them the place of
the initiation of males.