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

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VISH2VU.

XLVI, ro.

10. Let a man for three days eat in the evening
only; for other three days, in the morning only; for
further three days, food (given to him) unsolicited ;
(and let him fast entirely for three days): that is
the Prafapatya (the penance invented by Pra^a-
pati).
11. Let him drink for three days hot water; for
other three days, hot clarified butter; and for further
three days, hot milk; and let him fast for three
days : that is the Taptakrz'^Mra (hot penance).
12. Taking the same (liquids) cold is called the
5dtakAZ’Z7zra (cold penance).
13. The KzTT’T’/zratikzzT/f/zra (the most difficult
penance) consists in subsisting on milk only for
twenty-one days.
14. Eating (nothing but) ground barley mixed
with water for a whole month is called the Udaka-
kzTTT’/zra (water penance).
15. Eating nothing but lotus-fibres (for a whole
month) is called the Mulakzz’Ac7zra (root penance).
16. Eating nothing but Bel fruit (for a whole
month) is called the Ariphalakzz7/c7zra (Bel fruit
penance).
17. Or1 (this penance is performed) by (eating)
lotus-seeds.
18. A total fast for twelve days is called Paraka.
19. Subsisting for one day on the urine and
faeces of a cow, milk, sour milk, butter, and water
here, and refers to another kind of Aghamarshawa penance at the
same time, which is described by Xahkha, and consists simply in
fasting for three days and muttering the Aghamarshawa hymn three
times.
17. 1 According to Nand., the particle va, ‘or,’ here indicates
another alternative, that of performing this penance with Amalakas
(Emblica Officinalis Gaertn.)