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234 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
(11-12) Licking the ladle (sruc) after the Agnihotra Hoama in order to take off the remains of the offerings and using the ladle in the Agnihotra afterwards when it has been so licked.
(13) Entering into the stage of forest hermit as laid down in sastras about it.
(14) Lessening the periods of impurity (due to death and birth) in accordance with the conduct and Vedic learning of a man.
(15) Prescribing death as the penance (prayascitta) for Brahmans.
(16) Expiation (by secretly performed prayascittas) of the mortal sins other than theft (of gold) and the sin of contact (with those guilty of Mahapatakas).
(17) The act of offering with Mantras animal flesh to the bridegroom, the guest and the pitras.
(18) The acceptance as sons of those other than the aurasa (natural) and adopted sons.
(19) Ordinary intercourse with those who incurred the sin of (having intercourse with) women of higher castes, even after they had undergone the prayascitta for such sin.
(20) The abandonment of the wife of an elderly person or of one who is entitled to respect) when she has had intercourse with one with whom it is severely condemned.
(21) Killing oneself for the sake of another.
(22) Giving up food left after one has partaken of it.
(23) Resolve to worship a particular idol for life (in return for payment).
(24) Touching the bodies of persons who are in impurity due to death after the charred bones are collected.
(25) The actual slaughter by Brahmanas of the sacrificial animal.
(26) Sale of the Soma plant by Brahmanas.
(27) Securing food even from a Sudra when a Brahmana had no food for six times of meals (i.e., for three days).
(28) Permission to (a Brahmana) householder to take cooked food from Sudras if they are his dasas, cowherds, hereditary friends, persons cultivating his land on an agreement to pay part of the produce.
(29) Going on a very distant pilgrimage.
(30) Behaviour of a pupil towards his teacher’s wife as towards a teacher that is declared (in Smritis).
(31) The maintenance by Brahmanas in adversity (by following unworthy avocations) and the mode of livelihood in which a Brahmana does not care to accumulate for tomorrow.