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

XXIII, go. IMPURITY. IO;
animals whose flesh may be eaten)1 has died, or
which has been defiled in the highest degree, he
must take out all the waters and dry up the
remainder with a cloth.
45. If it is a well constructed with burnt bricks
(or stones,) he must light a fire and afterwards
throw Pan/^agavya into it, when fresh water is
coming forth.
46. For small reservoirs of water and for ponds
the same mode of purification has been prescribed
as for wells, O Earth ; but large tanks (excepting
Tirthas) are not defiled (by dead animals, &c.)
47. The gods have declared, as peculiar to Brah-
mazzas, three causes effecting purity: if an (existing)
impurity has not been perceived by them ; if they
sprinkle the object (supposed to be impure) with
water; and if they commend it, in doubtful cases,
with their speech, (saying, ‘ This or that shall be
pure.’)
48. The hand of a (cook or other) artizan, things
exposed for sale in a shop (though they may have
passed through the hands of many customers), food
given to a Brahma/za (by other Brdhmazzas, or by
Kshatriyas, &c., but not by Sudras), and all manu-
factories or mines (of sugar, salt, and the like, but not
distilleries of spirituous liquor), are always pure.
49. The mouth of a woman is always pure (for the
purpose of a kiss); a bird is pure on the fall of fruit
(which he has pecked); a sucking calf (or child), on the
flowing of the milk; a dog, on his catching the deer.
50. Flesh of an animal which has been killed
by dogs is pronounced pure ; and so is that of an

44. 1 See LI, 6.