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THE HINDOO MYTHOLOGY. 149
before the elder; in the two last cases also becoming priest
at the time of such marriage; usury in lending goods; not
completing a vrutii; selling a pool of water, a garden, a son,
&c.; not performing any one of the sungskariis; forsaking a
friend; obtaining instructions from a disciple; killing a
woman, or a shoodru, a voishyu, a kshutriyu, &c.; cutting
green trees for fire-wood; neglecting to pay debts; subdu-
ing or driving away a person not an enemy by the power of
incantations ; denying a future state, &c. 7- Cnoopatuku,
which includes many different actions, viz. a son's having
intercourse with a woman who is a wife (though of another
cast) to his father; adultery with an uncle's wife ; with the
wife of a grandfather; with an aunt by the mother's side;
with the wife of a king; with a father's sister; with the
wife of a shrotriyu bramhun; with the wife of a priest;
wi.h the wife of a teacher of the vediis ; with the wife of a
friend; with the friend of a sister; with any woman in the
line of consanguinity; with any woman of a cast superior
to that of the man; with the wife of a chandalu; with a
virgin, the daughter of a bramhun ; with a woman while in
her courses; with a woman who has embraced the life of a
brumhucharinee. 8. Muhapatuku, which includes five dif-
ferent offences, viz. killing bramhuns; a bramhun's drink-
ing spirits, or a sho5drii's intercourse with the wife of a
bramhun; stealing gold from a bramhun to the amount of
a gold mohur; adultery with the wife of a gooroo, viz. with
the wife of a father, if she be of a superior cast, or if she
be of the same cast. Whoever commits these actions is
called muhapatukee, and whoever lives in familiar habits
with this person becomes also muhapatukee : this includes
sleeping on the same bed; sitting together on one seat;
eating together; drinking out of one cup; eating together
of food cooked in one vessel; becoming priest to a muha-
patukee; teaching the v^dus to such an offender. If a
before the elder; in the two last cases also becoming priest
at the time of such marriage; usury in lending goods; not
completing a vrutii; selling a pool of water, a garden, a son,
&c.; not performing any one of the sungskariis; forsaking a
friend; obtaining instructions from a disciple; killing a
woman, or a shoodru, a voishyu, a kshutriyu, &c.; cutting
green trees for fire-wood; neglecting to pay debts; subdu-
ing or driving away a person not an enemy by the power of
incantations ; denying a future state, &c. 7- Cnoopatuku,
which includes many different actions, viz. a son's having
intercourse with a woman who is a wife (though of another
cast) to his father; adultery with an uncle's wife ; with the
wife of a grandfather; with an aunt by the mother's side;
with the wife of a king; with a father's sister; with the
wife of a shrotriyu bramhun; with the wife of a priest;
wi.h the wife of a teacher of the vediis ; with the wife of a
friend; with the friend of a sister; with any woman in the
line of consanguinity; with any woman of a cast superior
to that of the man; with the wife of a chandalu; with a
virgin, the daughter of a bramhun ; with a woman while in
her courses; with a woman who has embraced the life of a
brumhucharinee. 8. Muhapatuku, which includes five dif-
ferent offences, viz. killing bramhuns; a bramhun's drink-
ing spirits, or a sho5drii's intercourse with the wife of a
bramhun; stealing gold from a bramhun to the amount of
a gold mohur; adultery with the wife of a gooroo, viz. with
the wife of a father, if she be of a superior cast, or if she
be of the same cast. Whoever commits these actions is
called muhapatukee, and whoever lives in familiar habits
with this person becomes also muhapatukee : this includes
sleeping on the same bed; sitting together on one seat;
eating together; drinking out of one cup; eating together
of food cooked in one vessel; becoming priest to a muha-
patukee; teaching the v^dus to such an offender. If a