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

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is ordained, but he must mutter the Gayatri) one
hundred and eight times only.
65. If a 5iidra has followed the corpse of a
member of a twice-born caste, he must bathe.
66. Members of any caste, who have come near
to the smoke of a funeral pile, must bathe.
67. (Bathing is also ordained) after sexual inter-
course, bad dreams (of having been mounted upon
an ass, or the like), when blood has issued from the
throat, and after having vomited or been purged;
68. Also, after tonsure of the head ;
69. And after having touched one who has
touched a corpse (a carrier of a corpse), or a woman
in her courses, or a MWMa (or other low-caste
persons, such as -Svapa^as), or a sacrificial post ;
70. And (after having touched) the corpse of a
five-toed animal, except of those kinds that may be
eaten or their bones still moist with fat.
71. In all such ablutions he must not wear his
(defiled) apparel without having washed it before.
72. A woman in her courses becomes pure after
four days by bathing.
73. A woman in her courses having touched
another woman in her courses, who belongs to a
lower caste than she does, must not eat again till
she is purified.
74. If she has (unawares) touched a woman of
her own caste, or of a higher caste than her own, she
becomes pure at once, after having taken a bath.
75. Having sneezed, having slept, having eaten,
70. 1 See LI, 6.
75. Nand. argues from a passage of Ya^navalkya (I, 196) and
from texts of Apastamba (not found in his Dharma-sutra) and of
Pra^etas, that the particle Z’a refers to repeated sipping of water.