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XXII, 64.
IMPURITY.
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a marriage ceremony, if those ceremonies have actually begun;
54. Nor when the whole country is afflicted with a calamity;
55. Nor in times of great public distress (such as an epidemic or a famine).
56. Suicides and outcasts do not cause impurity or receive offerings of water.
57. On the death-day of an outcast a female slave of his must upset a pot with water with her feet, (saying, 'Drink thou this.')
58. He who cuts the rope by which (a suicide) has hung himself, becomes pure by performing the Taptakrikkhra (“hot penance').
59. So does he who has been (in any way) concerned with the funeral of a suicide ;
60. And he who sheds tears for such.
61. He who sheds tears for any deceased person together with the relations of the latter (becomes pure) by a bath.
62. If he has done so, before the bones (of the deceased) had been collected, (he becomes pure) by bathing with his apparel.
63. If a member of a twice-born caste has followed the corpse of a dead Sûdra, he must go to a river, and having plunged into it, mutter the Aghamarshana three times, and then, after having emerged from it, mutter the Gâyatri one thousand and eight times.
64. (If he has followed) the corpse of a dead member of a twice-born caste, (the same expiation
55. Giving or taking alms does not effect impurity in such cases. (Nand.)
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