in due order, by the western, northern, and eaftern gates.

93. No taint of impurity can light on kings or ftudents in theology, while employed in difcharging their feveral duties, nor on those who have actually begun a facrifice; for the firft are then placed on the feat of INDRA, and the others ' are always equally pure with the celeftial fpirit. 94. To a king, on the throne of magnanimity, the law afcribes inftant purification, because his throne was raised for the protection of his people and the supply of their nourishment:

95. It is the fame with the kinsmen of those 'who die in battle, after the king has been flain, or have been killed by lightning, or legally by the king himself, or in defence of a cow, or of a prieft; and with all thofe whom the king wishes to be pure.

96. The corporeal frame of a king is com< posed of particles from Sóma, AGNI, SURYA, PAVANA, INDRA, CUVE'RA, VARUNA, and YAMA, the eight guardian deities of the world: 97. By thofe guardians of men in fubftance is the king pervaded, and he cannot by law be impure; fince by thofe tutelar gods are the purity and impurity of mortals both caufed and < removed.

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98. By a foldier difcharging the duties of his clafs, and flain in the field with brandifhed weapons, the highest facrifice is, in that inftant, complete; and fo is his purification: this law is fixed.

99. A prieft having performed funeral rites, is purified by touching water; a foldier, by touching his horfe or elephant, or his arms; ' a husbandman, by touching his goad, or the halK 4 ter

ter of his cattle; a fervant, by touching his Raff.

100. This mode of purifying Sapindas, O chief of the twice born, has been fully declared to you! learn now the purification required on the death of kinfmen lefs intimately connected.

101. A Bráhmen, having caried out a dead Brábmen, though not a fapinda, with the affection of a kinfman, or any of thofe nearly related to him by his mother, becomes pure in three days;

102.. But, if he tafte the food offered by their Sapindas, he is purified in ten days; and in one day, if he neither partake of their food, nor dwell in the fame house.

103. If he voluntarily follow a corpfe, whether of a paternal kinfman or of another, and afterwards bathe with his apparel, he is made pure by touching fire and tafting clarified

butter,

104. Let no kinfman, whilft any of his own class are at hand, cause a deceased Bráhmen to be < carried out by a Sudra; fince the funeral rite, < polluted by the touch of a fervile man, obftructs his paffage to heaven.

105. Sacred learning, auftere devotion, fire, holy aliment, earth, the mind, water, fmearing with cow-dung, air, prefcribed acts of religion, the fun, and time, are purifiers of imbodied fpirits;

106. But of all pure things, purity in acquiring wealth is pronounced the most excellent : fince he, who gains wealth with clean hands, is truly pure; not he, who is purified merely with earth and water.

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By forgiveness of injuries, the learned are purified; by liberality, thofe who have neglected their duty; by pious meditation, those who have fecret faults; by devout aufterity, thofe who beft know the Véda.

108. By water and earth is purified what ought to be made pure; a river, by its current; a woman, whose thoughts have been impure, by her monthly discharge, and the chief of twice born men, by fixing his mind wholly on GOD. 109. Bodies are cleanfed by water; the mind is purified by truth; the vital fpirit, by theology ⚫ and devotion; the understanding, by clear ⚫ knowledge.

I 10. Thus have you heard me declare the precife rules for purifying animal bodies: hear now the modes of restoring purity to various ⚫ inanimate things.

111. Of brilliant metals, of gems, and of every · thing made with stone, the purification, ordained by the wife, is with ashes, water, and earth.

112. A golden veffel, not smeared, is cleanfed with water only; and every thing produced in water, as coral, fhells or pearls, and every ftony 'fubftance, and a filver veffel not enchased.

113. From a junction of water and fire arose gold and filver; and they two, therefore, are best purified by the elements whence they sprang. 114. Veffels of copper, iron, brafs, pewter, tin and lead, may be fitly cleanfed with afhes, with acids, or with water.

115. The purification ordained for all forts of liquids, is by ftirring them with cus'a-grafs; for cloths folded, by fprinkling them with hallowed water; for wooden utenfils, by planeing them.

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116. For the facrificial pots to hold clarified butter and juice of the moon plant, by rubbing them with the hand, and washing them, at the time of the facrifice:

117. Implements to wafh the rice, to contain the oblations, to caft them into the fire, to collect, winnow, and prepare the grain, muft be I purified with water made hot.

118. The purification by fprinkling is or⚫ dained for grain and cloths in large quantities; but to purify them in fmall parcels, which a man may easily carry, they must be washed.

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Leathern utenfils, and fuch as are made ⚫ with cane, muft generally be purified in the fame manner with cloths; green vegetables, roots, and fruit, in the fame manner with grain;

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120. 'Silk and woollen ftuff, with faline earths; blankets from Népála with pounded arishtas, or nimba fruit; vefts and long drawers, with the 'fruit of the Bilva; mantles of cfbumá, with white muftard feeds.

121. Utenfils made of fhells or horn, of bones or of ivory, must be cleanfed by him who knows the law, as mantles of cfbumá are purified, with the addition of cows urine or of water. 122. Grafs, firewood, and ftraw, are purified by fprinkling them with water; a house, by rubbing, brushing, and fmearing with cow-dung; · an earthen pot, by a fecond burning:

123. But an earthen pot, which has been touched with any fpirituous liquor, with urine, with ordure, with fpittle, with pus, or with blood, cannot, even by another burning, be rendered pure.

124. Land is cleanfed by five modes; by • fweeping

fweeping, by fmearing with cow-dung, by sprinkling with cow's urine, by fcraping, or by letting a cow pass a day and a night on it.

125. A thing nibbled by a bird, fmelt at by a cow, fhaken with a foot, fneezed on, or defiled by lice, is purified by earth fcattered over it.

126. As long as the fcent or moisture, caused by any impurity, remain on the thing foiled, fo long must earth and water be repeatedly used in all purifications of things inanimate.

127. The gods declared three pure things peculiar to Brábmens; what has been defiled ⚫ without their knowledge, what, in cases of doubt, they fprinkle with water; and what they commend with their speech.

128. Waters are pure, as far as a cow goes to quench her thirst in them, if they flow over <clean earth, and are fullied by no impurity, but have a good scent, colour, and taste.

129. The hand of an artist, employed in his art, is always pure; fo is every vendible commodity, when exposed to fale; and that food is always clean, which a ftudent in theology has begged and received: fuch is the facred rule.

130. The mouth of a woman is constantly pure; a bird is pure on the fall of fruit, which he has pecked; a fucking animal, on the flowing ' of the milk; a dog, on his catching the deer;

131. The flesh of a wild beast slain by dogs, 'MENU pronounces pure; and that of an animal Main by other carnivorous creatures, or by men of the mixed class, who fubfift by hunting. 132. All the cavities above the navel are pure, and all below it, unclean; fo are all excretions that fall from the body.

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