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10.101. A Brahmana who is distressed through a want of means of subsistence and pines (with hunger), (but)
unwilling to adopt a Vaisya’s mode of life and resolved to follow his own (prescribed) path, may act in the
following manner.
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10.102. A Brahmana who has fallen into distress may accept (gifts) from anybody; for according to the law it is
not possible (to assert) that anything pure can be sullied.
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10.103. By teaching, by sacrificing for, and by accepting gifts from despicable (men) Brahmanas (in distress)
commit not sin; for they (are as pure) as fire and water.
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10.104. He who, when in danger of losing his life, accepts food from any person whatsoever, is no more tainted
by sin than the sky by mud.
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10.105. Agigarta, who suffered hunger, approached in order to slay (his own) son, and was not tainted by sin,
since he (only) sought a remedy against famishing.
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10.106. Vamadeva, who well knew right and wrong, did not sully himself when, tormented (by hunger), he
desired to eat the flesh of a dog in order to save his life.
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10.107. Bharadvaga, a performer of great austerities, accepted many cows from the carpenter Bribu, when he
was starving together with his sons in a lonely forest.
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10.108. Visvamitra, who well knew what is right or wrong, approached, when he was tormented by hunger, (to
eat) the haunch of a dog, receiving it the hands of a Kandala.
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10.109. On (comparing) the acceptance (of gifts from low men), sacrificing (for them), and teaching (them), the
acceptance of gifts is the meanest (of those acts) and (most) reprehensible for a Brahmana (on account of its
results) in the next life.
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10.110. (For) assisting in sacrifices and teaching are (two acts) always performed for men who have received
the sacraments; but the acceptance of gifts takes place even in (case the giver is) a Sudra of the lowest class.