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11.200. To eat during a month at each sixth mealtime (only), to recite the Samhita (of a Veda), and (to perform)
daily the Sakala oblations, are the means of purifying those excluded from society at repasts (Apanktya).
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11.201. A Brahmana who voluntarily rode in a carriage drawn by camels or by asses, and he who bathed naked,
become pure by suppressing his breath (Pranayama).
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11.202. He who has relieved the necessities of nature, being greatly pressed, either without (using) water or in
water, becomes pure by bathing outside (the village) in his clothes and by touching a cow.
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11.203. Fasting is the penance for omitting the daily rites prescribed by the Veda and for neglecting the special
duties of a Snataka.
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11.204. He who has said ’Hum’ to a Brahmana, or has addressed one of his betters with ’Thou,’ shall bathe, fast
during the remaining part of the day, and appease (the person offended) by a reverential salutation.
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11.205. He who has struck (a Brahmana) even with a blade of grass, tied him by the neck with a cloth, or
conquered him in an altercation, shall appease him by a prostration.
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11.206. But he who, intending to hurt a Brahmana, has threatened (him with a stick and the like) shall remain in
hell during a hundred years; he who (actually) struck him, during one thousand years.
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11.207. As many particles of dust as the blood of a Brahmana causes to coagulate, for so many thousand years
shall the shedder of that (blood) remain in hell.
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11.208. For threatening a Brahmana, (the offender) shall perform a Krikkhra, for striking him an Atikrikkhra,
for shedding his blood a Krikkhra and an Atikrikkhra.
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11.209. For the expiation of offences for which no atonement has been prescribed, let him fix a penance after
considering (the offender’s) strength and the (nature of the) offence.
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11.210. I will (now) describe to you those means, adopted by the gods, the sages, and the manes, through which
a man may remove his sins.