320 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
“18. [1] The acceptance as sons of those other than the aurasa
(natural) and adopted sons.” [2]
“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.” [3 ]
“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.” [4]
“21. [5] ‘Killing oneself for the sake of another.” [6]
“22. Giving up food left after one has partaken of it.” [7]
“23. Resolve to worship a particular idol for life (in return for payment)” [8] .
“24. Touching the bodies of persons who are in impurity due to death after the charred bones are collected” [9] .
“25. The actual slaughter by Brahmanas of the sacrificial animal.”
“26. [10] Sale of the Soma plant by Brahamanas.” [11]
“27. Securing food even from a Shudra when a Brahamana has had no food for six times of meals (i.e. for three days).” [12]
“28. Permission to (a Brahamana) householder to take cooked food from Shudras if they are his dasas, cowherds, hereditary friends, persons cultivating his land on an agreement to pay part of the produce.” [13]
1 Kane’s Kalivarjya pp. 8-16.
2 Manu 9. 165-80, Yaj. II. 128-132 and others speak of twelve kinds of sons.
3 Gautama (IV. 20 and 22-23) severely condemns the intercourse of men of lower castes with women of higher castes and holds that their progeny is dharmahina.
4 Vashishtha 21.10 says ‘four kinds of women viz. one who has intercourse with a pupil or with the husband’s teacher, or one who kills her husband or commits adultery with a man or degraded caste, should be abandoned.
Yaj. (III. 296-297) is against and says that even such women should be kept, near the house and given starving maintenance. Vide Atri V. 1-5.
5 Kane’s Kalivarjya pp. 8-12.
6 The Smritis say that a man should run the risk of life for cows and Brahmanas; vide Manu XI. 79 and Vishnu III. 45.
7 Vashishtha 14.20-21 says that food left after one has partaken of it from what was taken out for oneself or food touched by such leaving should not be eaten. Or this may mean ‘giving to another the leavings of food’: some smritis permit giving Ucchista to Shudras and the like, which is forbidden here. Vide Gautama X. 61 and Manu X. 125.
8 Manu III. 152 makes a Brahmana performing worship for money unfit for invitation in sraddha and ‘devakrtya’.
9 Collection of charred bones took place on the fourth day after cremation. Vishnu 19, 10-12; VaikhanasaSmartasutra V. 7; Samvarta, verses 38-39.
10 Kane’s Kalivarjya p. 13.
11 Katyayana Srauta (VII. 6.2-4) says that Soma should be purchased from a Brahmana of the Kautsa gotra or a Shudra; but Manu X. 88 forbids a Brahmana the sale of Soma along with many other things even though living by agriculture and the avocations of a Vaishya and Manu (III. 158 and 170) condemns a Brahmana who sells Soma as unfit for being invited at a Sraddha.
12 Manu XI. 16 allows a Brahmana who has had no food for three-days to take food for one day from one whose actions are low and so does Yaj. III. 43. if we read ‘hinakarmana’ it would mean ‘even by doing what is low’ (i.e. by begging or theft or by such actions as are described in Narada, abhyupetya-susrusa, vv. 5-7).
13 Manu smritis allow a Brahmana to have cooked food from Shudras if they are that Brahmana’s dasas, barber, cowherd, or cultivator of his land, hereditary, friends. Vide Gautama 17.6, Manu IV. 253, Yaj. 1. 166 (where the first half is the same as here). Angiras 120, Parasara XI.