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

XXII, 64.

IMPURITY.

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a marriage ceremony, if those ceremonies have
actually begun;
54. Nor when the whole country is afflicted with
a calamity;
55. Nor in times of great public distress (such as
an epidemic or a famine).
56. Suicides and outcasts do not cause impurity
or receive offerings of water.
57. On the death-day of an outcast a female
slave of his must upset a pot with water with her
feet, (saying, ‘ Drink thou this.’)
58. He who cuts the rope by which (a suicide)
has hung himself, becomes pure by performing the
TaptakzA’Mra (‘ hot penance’).
59. So does he who has been (in any way)
concerned with the funeral of a suicide ;
60. And he who sheds tears for such.
61. He who sheds tears for any deceased person
together with the relations of the latter (becomes
pure) by a bath.
62. If he has done so, before the bones (of the
deceased) had been collected, (he becomes pure) by
bathing with his apparel.
63. If a member of a twice-born caste has fol-
lowed the corpse of a dead Audra, he must go
to a river, and having plunged into it, mutter the
Aghamarsha/za three times, and then, after having
emerged from it, mutter the Gayatri one thousand
and eight times.
64. (If he has followed) the corpse of a dead
member of a twice-born caste, (the same expiation
55. Giving or taking alms does not effect impurity in such
cases. (Nand.)