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

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VISH2VU.

LI, 47-

food of a cat, of a crow, of an ichneumon, or of a rat,
he must drink water in which the Brahmasuvar/^ala
plant has been boiled.
47. For eating (unawares) what has been left by
a dog, he must fast for one day, and drink PanZ’a-
gavya (afterwards).
48. For tasting (knowingly) the excrements of
five-toed animals (excepting human excrements), he
must (fast) for seven days (and drink Pan^agavya on
the eighth).
49. If one (not a student) eats (unawares) of a
5raddha repast consisting of raw food, he must
subsist on milk for seven days.
50. If a Brahma/za eats what has been left by a
Afidra, (he must also subsist on milk) for seven
days.
51. If he eats what has been left by a Vairya, (he
must subsist upon milk) for five days.
52. If he eats what has been left by a Kshatriya,
(he must subsist upon milk) for three days.
53. If he eats what has been left by another
Brahmazza, (he must subsist upon milk) for one
day.
54. If a Kshatriya eats what has been left by a
.Sudra, (he must undergo the same penance) for five
days.
55. If he eats what has been left by a VaBya, (he
must undergo it) for three days ;
56. And so must aVaisya, if he eats what has
been left by a Audra.
50. Nand. explains that he should drink PanZ’agavya alternately
with milk. This explanation extends to the following Sutras also
(up to Sutra 56). He further argues from another Smn'ti text that
the term 3udra means ‘ Sudras and women’ here.