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11.69. Accepting presents from blamed men, trading, serving Sudras, and speaking a falsehood, make (the
offender) unworthy to receive gifts (Apatra).
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11.70. Killing insects, small or large, or birds, eating anything kept close to spirituous liquors, stealing fruit,
firewood, or flowers, (are offences) which make impure (Malavaha).
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11.71. Learn (now) completely those penances, by means of which all the several offences mentioned (can) be
expiated.
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11.72. For his purification the slayer of a Brahmana shall make a hut in the forest and dwell (in it) during twelve
years, subsisting on alms and making the skull of a dead man his flag.
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11.73. Or let him, of his own free will, become (in a battle) the target of archers who know (his purpose); or he
may thrice throw himself headlong into a blazing fire;
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11.74. Or he may offer a horse-sacrifice, a Svargit, a Gosava, an Abhigit, a Visvagit, a Trivrit, or an Agnishtut;
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11.75. Or, in order to remove (the guilt of) slaying a Brahmana, he may walk one hundred yoganas, reciting one
of the Vedas, eating little, and controlling his organs;
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11.76. Or he may present to a Brahmana, learned in the Vedas, whole property, as much wealth as suffices for
the maintenance (of the recipient), or a house together with the furniture;
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11.77. Or, subsisting on sacrificial food, he may walk against the stream along (the whole course of the river)
Sarasvati; or, restricting his food (very much), he may mutter thrice the Samhita of a Veda.
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11.78. Having shaved off (all his hair), he may dwell at the extremity of the village, or in a cow-pen, or in a
hermitage, or at the root of a tree, taking pleasure in doing good to cows and Brahmanas.
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11.79. He who unhesitatingly abandons life for the sake of Brahmanas or of cows, is freed from (the guilt of)
the murder of a Brahmana, and (so is he) who saves (the life of) a cow, or of a Brahmana.