Shanti Parva 165.47

Rahular Itihasa / M. N. Dutt · Shanti Parva Chapter 165 · Verse 47

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Sanskrit Original

द्विगुणा ब्रह्महत्या वै आत्रेयीनिधने भवेत्। सुरापो नियताहारो ब्रह्मचारी क्षितीशयः॥ ऊर्ध्वं त्रिभ्योऽपि वर्षेभ्यो यजेताग्निष्टुता परम्। ऋषभैकसहस्रं वा गा दत्त्वा शौचमाप्नुयात्॥

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The man that knowingly kills such a woman incurs double the sin that follows from Brahmanicide. A drinker of spirituous liquor should live spare diet, practising Brahmacharya vows, and sleep on the naked earth, and perform, for more than three years the sacrifice next to the Agnishtoma. He should then present a thousand kine with one bull (to a good Brahmana). He would then regain his purily by doing all this.

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