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

XLVII, 2.

PENANCES.

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in which Kum grass has been boiled, and fasting
the next day, is called Santapana (the tormenting
penance).
20. Swallowing (the same six things, viz.) cow-
urine and the rest, each for one day, is called Maha-
santapana (the particularly tormenting penance).
21. Swallowing each for three days is called
Atisantapana (the extremely tormenting penance).
22. Swallowing oil-cakes, foam of boiled rice,
buttermilk, water, and ground barley (each for one
day), with a fasting day between (every two days), is
called Tulapurusha (a man’s weight)..
23. Drinking water boiled with Kusa grass,
leaves of the Palasa and Udumbara trees, of lotuses,
of the Aankhapushpi plant, of the banyan tree, and
of the Brahmasuvar^ala plant, each (for one day), is
called PanzakrzAVzra (leaves penance).
24. Let a man perform all those penances after
having shorn his hair and his beard, and let him
bathe at morning, noon, and evening every day,
lying on a low couch, and restraining his passions,
25. And let him (while engaged in performing
them) avoid to converse with women, Audras, or
outcasts, and let him constantly, to the best of his
ability, mutter purifying Mazztras and make oblations
in the fire.
XLVII.
1. Now follows the jVandrayazza (lunar penance).
2. Let a man eat single mouthfuls (of food)
unchanged in size ;
XLVII. 1-10. M. XI, 217-222. — 1-3, 9. Y. Ill, 324, 325.—
1-4. Gaut. XXVII, 12-15.
2. ‘Unchanged in size’ means ‘of that size precisely which the
law prescribes.’ Yag-fiavalkya (III, 324) states that each daily