LIV.
1. If a man associates with one guilty of a crime, he must perform the same penance as he.
2. A Brâhmana who has drunk water from a well in which a five-toed animal has perished, or which has been defiled in the highest degree, must fast for three days.
3. A Kshatriya (must fast) for two days (in the same case).
4. A Vaisya (must fast) for one day (and one night).
5. A Sûdra (must fast) for a night only.
6. And all (the former, but not a Sûdra) must drink Pañkagavya, when their penance has been completed.
7. If a Sûdra drinks Pañkagavya, or if a Brâhmana drinks spirituous liquor, they both go to the hell called Mahâraurava[1].
17. See XLVI, 11.
18. 1 The term ârdra, which Nand. interprets by ârdrakam, might also be connected with the following word, and both together be translated by 'fresh plants.' See Y. III, 38.
20. 1 Tin, perfumes, and, of the articles enumerated in Sûtra 21, {footnote p. 178} lac, and milk have already been mentioned in Sûtras 18 and 19. Nand. tries to remove the difficulty in the second case, by stating the perfumes mentioned here to be perfumes of a different kind, and in the fourth case, by asserting that the milk of female buffalos, &c. is meant in Sûtra 2 1. But he interprets the two other terms as given above. Probably the passage is interpolated.]
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