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

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XXXIII, 2.

2. They are specially dangerous to the order of
householders, because they have (houses, wives, and
other) property.
3. Man, being overcome by those (three enemies),
commits crimes in the highest degree, high crimes,
minor crimes, and crimes in the fourth degree;
4. Also crimes effecting loss of caste, crimes de-
grading to a mixed caste, and crimes rendering the
perpetrator unworthy (to receive alms and the like);
5. And crimes causing defilement, and miscel-
laneous offences.
6. This is the threefold path to hell, destructive
of self: carnal desire, wrath, and greed : therefore
must a man shun those three vices.
XXXIV.
1. Sexual connection with one’s mother, or
daughter, or daughter-in-law are crimes in the
highest degree.
2. Such criminals in the highest degree should
proceed into the flames ; for there is not any other
way to atone for their crime.
XXXV.
1. Killing a Brahmazza, drinking spirituous liquor,
chastity and the penance for it (see XXVIII, 48, 49), causes him
(Vishmi) to discuss the law of penance (Praya^itta). This is done
in the following section, to which Chapter XXXIV serves as
Introduction. (Nand.) The section on Praya^itta extends as far
as Chapter LVII.
6. This proverb is also found in the Bhagavad-gita, XVI, 21, and
in the Mahabharata, V, 1036. See Bohtlingk, Ind. Sprtiche, 2645.
XXXV. 1. M. IX, 235; XI, 55; Y. Ill, 227; Apast. I, 7, 21,
8; Gaut. XXI, 1. — 2, 3. M. XI, 181 ; Y. Ill, 227, 261; Gaut.
XXI, 3. — 4. M. XI, 181.