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

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VISHJVU.

Lin, i.

L1II.
1. One who has (unawares) had illicit sexual
intercourse \ must perform the Prafapatya penance
for a year, according to the rule of the Mahavrata,
clad in a garment of bark, and living in a forest.
2. The same (penance is ordained) for sexual
intercourse with the wife of another man (who
belongs to his own caste, but is no Guru of his).
3. For intercourse with a cow, the Govrata (must
be performed).
4. For intercourse with a man, for unnatural
crimes with a woman, (for wasting his manhood) in
the air, (for intercourse with a woman) in water, by
day, or in a go-cart x, he must bathe dressed in his
clothes.
5. By intercourse (knowingly) with a AGWala
woman \ he becomes her equal in caste.
6. For intercourse unawares with such, he must
perform the Aandrayazza twice.
7. For intercourse (knowingly) with cattle (other)
than cows) or with a public prostitute, (he must
perform) the Pra^apatya penance.
8. A woman who has committed adultery once,
LIII. 1-8. M. XI, 106, 171-177. — 4. Y. Ill, 291. —9. M. XI,
179.
1. * 1 * 3 4 5 The crime intended here is explained by Nand. as being
illicit intercourse with a step-mother, who belongs to the Nudra
caste.
3. See L, 16-24.
4. 1 ‘ Or in a cart drawn by asses or by other beasts of draught,
as the particle Z’a implies.’ (Nand.)
5. 1 ‘ Or with a woman of an equally degraded caste, such as the
Nvapa^a caste and others.’ (Nand.)
8. See Sutra 2.