शयनादुत्थिता नारी शुचिः स्यादशुचिः पुमान्
A woman who rises from sleep is pure; a man, however, is impure.
दण्ड्या द्वादशकं नारी वर्षं त्याज्या धनं विना
A woman is to be punished with twelve strokes; if she departs for a year, she is to be expelled, even without her wealth.
पिता हि पतितः कामं न तु माता कदाचन
The father may be declared fallen at will, but the mother is never so, under any circumstance.
मृते मेध्येन लेत्पव्यो जीवतो द्विशतं दमः
If dead, he should be smeared with purified substances; if alive, a fine of two hundred is imposed.
प्रायश्चित्तं ततः कुर्युर्यथाशास्त्रप्रचोदितम्
Thereafter, they should perform expiation as prescribed by the scriptures.
विषप्रपतनध्वस्ताः शस्त्रघातहताश्च ये
Those who are destroyed by poison or struck down by weapons,
चान्द्रायणेन शुद्ध्यंन्ति तत्पकृच्छ्रद्वयेन वा
Are purified by the Cāndrāyaṇa penance or by two Prakṛcchra penances.
चान्द्रायणाभ्यां शुद्ध्येत दत्त्वा धेनुं तथा वृषम्
One is purified by two Cāndrāyaṇa penances, or by giving a cow and a bull.
स्पृष्टः स्त्रात्वा शुचिः सद्यो दिवा संध्यासु रात्रिषु
Having touched a woman, one becomes pure immediately—by day, at twilight, or at night.
गोमूत्रयावकाहारो मासार्द्धेन विशुद्ध्यति
By eating barley with cow's urine, one is purified in half a month.
पाशं छित्वा तथा तस्य कृच्छ्रमेकं चरेद्दिजः
Having cut the rope, the twice-born should perform one Kṛcchra penance.
कृच्छ्रार्ध्दमाचरेज्ज्ञानादज्ञानादैन्दवद्वयम्
He should perform half a Kṛcchra penance if done knowingly; if unknowingly, two Indra penances.
अगम्यागमने विप्रो मद्यगो मांसभक्षणे
A Brāhmaṇa who approaches a forbidden woman, drinks liquor, or eats meat,
महापातककर्त्तारश्चत्वारो ऽथ विशेषतः
There are four especially who commit great sins.
रहस्यकरणो ऽप्येवं मासमभ्यस्य पुरुषः
Even if done secretly, a man should practice penance for a month.
रजकश्चर्मकारश्च नटो बुरुड एव च
The washerman, the leather-worker, the dancer, and the drum-maker,
भुक्त्वा चैषां स्त्रियो गत्वा पीत्वा यःप्रतिगृह्यते
Whoever, after eating with them, goes to their women or drinks and accepts from them,
मातरं गुरुपत्नीं च दुहितृभगिनीस्नुषाः
Mother, teacher's wife, daughter, sister, and daughter-in-law—
राज्ञीं प्रव्रजितां धात्रीं तथावर्णोत्तमामपि
A queen, a woman who has renounced the world, a nurse, or even a woman of the highest class—
अमूषु पितृगोत्रासु मातृगोत्रगतासु च
among these, whether belonging to the father's lineage or to the mother's lineage,
वेश्याभिगमने पापं व्यपोहन्ति द्विजा स्तथा
twice-born men remove sin by approaching prostitutes in such cases.
गुरुतल्पगतो कुर्यार्द्बाह्मणो विधिवद्रूतम्
If a Brahmin has gone to his teacher's wife, he should perform the prescribed expiation.
दण्डादूर्ध्वं प्रहारेण यस्तु गां विनिपातयेत्
If someone strikes a cow above the staff and causes it to fall,
अङ्गुष्ठमात्रस्थूलस्तु बाहुमात्रघप्रमाणकः
if the wound is the size of a thumb, or as large as the forearm,
गवां निपातने चैव गर्भो ऽपि संभवेद्यदि
and if, by causing a cow to fall, even a fetus is produced,
बन्धने रोधने चैव पोषणे वा गवां रुजाम्
in the case of binding, confining, or injuring cows, or causing them pain,
मूर्च्छितः पतितो वापि दण्डेनाभिहतस्ततः
if a cow faints, falls, or is struck with a staff,
ग्रासं वा यदि गृह्णीयात्तोयं वापि पिबेद्यदि
if it takes food or drinks water in such a state,
कष्टलोष्टाश्मभिर्गावः शस्त्रैर्वा निहता यदि
if cows are killed with wood, clods, stones, or weapons,
काष्टे सान्तपनं प्रोक्तं प्राजापत्यं तु लोष्टके
for striking with wood, the penance called Sāntapana is prescribed; for clods, the Prājāpatya penance.