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251. By repeating each day for a month the text CHAP. ásyavámíya, or the hymn Sivasancalpa, the stealer

' of gold from a priest becomes instantly pure.

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253. • The man, who desires to expiate his hidden 'sins great and small, must repeat once a day for a year the text ava, or the text yatcinchida.

254. "
He, who has accepted an illegal present, or
eaten prohibited food, may be cleansed in three
days by repeating the text taratsamandiya.

255. Though he have committed many secret sins, he shall be purified by repeating for a month the ' text sómáraudra, or the three texts áryamna, while he bathes in a sacred stream.

256. A grievous offender must repeat the seven verses, beginning with INDRA, for half a year; and he, who has defiled water with any impurity, must 'sit a whole year subsisting by alms.

257. A twice-born man, who shall offer clarified 'butter for a year, with eight texts appropriated to eight several oblations, or with the texts na mé, shall efface a sin even of an extremely high de6 gree.

XI.

CHAP.

XI.

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He, who had committed a crime of the first
degree, shall be absolved, if he attend a herd of
kine for a year, mortify his organs, and continually
repeat the texts beginning with pávamání, living
solely on food given in charity.

259. Or, if he thrice repeat a Sanhità of the
• Védas,
or a large portion of them with all the
'mantras and brahmenas, dwelling in a
dwelling in a forest with
'subdued organs, and purified by three parácas, he
shall be set free from all sins how heinous soever.

260. Or he shall be released from all deadly sins, if he fast three days, with his members mortified, and twice a day plunge into water, thrice repeating the text aghamarshana:

261. As the sacrifice of a horse, the king of sacrifices, removes all sin, thus the text aghamarshana destroys all offences.

262. A priest, who should retain in his memory the whole Rigvéda, would be absolved from guilt, even if he had slain the inhabitants of the three worlds, and had eaten food from the foulest hands. 263. By thrice repeating the mantras and bráhmenas of the Rich, or those of the Yajush, or those ' of the Sáman, with the upanishads, he shall per

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fectly be cleansed from every possible taint:

264. As a clod of earth, cast into a great lake, sinks in it, thus is every sinful act submerged in the triple Véda.

265. The

265. The divisions of the Rich, the several CHAP. 'branches of the Yajush, and the manifold strains of XI. 'the Sáman must be considered as forming the triple

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Véda: he knows the Véda, who knows them collectively.

266. The primary triliteral syllable, in which the three Védas themselves are comprised, must be kept 'secret, as another triple Véda: he knows the Véda, who distinctly knows the mystick sense of that word.'

CHAP.

CHAP. XII.

On Transmigration and Final Beatitude.

CHAP.

XII.

1.O THOU, who art free from sin,' said the devout sages, 'thou hast declared the whole system of duties ' ordained for the four classes of men: explain to us now, from the first principles, the ultimate retribu'tion for their deeds.'

2. BHRIGU, whose heart was the pure essence of virtue, who proceeded from MENU himself, thus addressed the great sages: Hear the infallible rules ' for the fruit of deeds in this universe.

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3. 'ACTION, either mental, verbal, or corporeal, 'bears good or evil fruit, as itself is good or evil; ' and from the actions of men proceed their various transmigrations in the highest, the mean, and the 'lowest degree:

4. Of that three-fold action, connected with bodily 'functions, disposed in three classes, and consisting ' of ten orders, be it known in this world, that the heart is the instigator.

5. Devising means to appropriate the wealth of ' other men, resolving on any forbidden deed, and conceiving notions of atheism or materialism, are the 'three bad acts of mind:

6. Scurrilous

6. Scurrilous language, falsehood,

indiscriminate CHAP.

backbiting, and useless tattle, are the four bad acts of the tongue :

7. Taking effects not given, hurting sentient crea⚫tures without the sanction of law, and criminal in'tercourse with the wife of another, are the three 'bad acts of the body; and all the ten have their ' opposites, which are good in an equal degree.

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8. A rational creature has a reward or a punishment for mental acts, in his mind; for verbal acts, in his organs of speech; for corporeal acts, in his 'bodily frame.

9. For sinful acts mostly corporeal, a man shall assume after death a vegetable or mineral form; for 'such acts mostly verbal, the form of a bird or a beast; for acts mostly mental, the lowest of human • conditions:

10. He, whose firm understanding obtains a com'mand over his words, a command over his thoughts, and a command over his whole body, may justly be 'called a tridandì, or triple commander; not a mere ' anchoret, who bears three visible staves.

11. The man, who exerts this triple self-command 'with respect to all animated creatures, wholly subduing both lust and wrath, shall by those means ' attain beatitude.

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12. THAT substance, which gives a power of mo

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XII.