Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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11.90. A twice-born man who has (intentionally) drunk, through delusion of mind, (the spirituous liquor called)
Sura shall drink that liquor boiling-hot; when his body has been completely scalded by that, he is freed from his
guilt;
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11.91. Or he may drink cow’s urine, water, milk, clarified butter or (liquid) cowdung boiling-hot, until he dies;
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11.92. Or, in order to remove (the guilt of) drinking Sura, he may eat during a year once (a day) at night grains
(of rice) or oilcake, wearing clothes made of cowhair and his own hair in braids and carrying (a wine cup as) a
flag.
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11.93. Sura, indeed, is the dirty refuse (mala) of grain, sin also is called dirt (mala); hence a Brahmana, a
Kshatriya, and a Vaisya shall not drink Sura.
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11.94. Sura one must know to be of three kinds, that distilled from molasses (gaudi), that distilled from ground
rice, and that distilled from Madhuka-flowers (madhvi); as the one (named above) even so are all (three sorts)
forbidden to the chief of the twice-born.
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11.95. Sura, (all other) intoxicating drinks and decoctions and flesh are the food of the Yakshas, Rakshasas, and
Pisakas; a Brahmana who eats (the remnants of) the offerings consecrated to the gods, must not partake of such
(substances).
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11.96. A Brahmana, stupefied by drunkenness, might fall on something impure, or (improperly) pronounce
Vedic (texts), or commit some other act which ought not to be committed.
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11.97. When the Brahman (the Veda) which dwells in his body is (even) once (only) deluged with spirituous
liquor, his Brahmanhood forsakes him and he becomes a Sudra.
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11.98. The various expiations for drinking (the spirituous liquors called) Sura have thus been explained; I will
next proclaim the atonement for stealing the gold (of a Brahmana).
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11.99. A Brahmana who has stolen the gold (of a Brahmana) shall go to the king and, confessing his deed, say,
’Lord, punish me!’