1. After having eaten sesamum or having fasted on the full moon day of the month Srāvaṇa July-August), he may on the following day bathe in the water of a great river and offer (a burnt-oblation of) one thousand pieces of sacred fuel, whilst. reciting the Gāyatrī, or he may mutter (the Gāyatrī) as many times. 2. Or he may perform Iṣṭis and Soma-sacrifices for the sake of purifying himself (from his sins), 3. After having eaten forbidden food, he must fast, until his entrails are empty. 4. That is (generally) attained after seven days. 5. Or he may during winter and during the dewy season (November-March) bathe in cold water both morning and evening. 6. Or he may perform a Kṛcchra penance, which lasts twelve days. 7. The rule for the Kṛcchra penance of twelve days (is the following): For three days he must not eat in the evening, and then for three days not in the morning; for three days he must live on food which has been given unasked, and three days he must not eat anything. 8. If he repeats this for a year, that is called a Kṛcchra penance, which lasts for a year. 9. Now follows another penance. He who has committed even a great many sins which do not cause him to fall, becomes free from guilt, if, fasting, he recites the entire Śākhā of his Veda three times consecutively. 10. He who cohabits with a non-Aryan woman, he who lends money at interest, he who drinks (other) spirituous liquors (than Surā), he who praises everybody in a manner unworthy of a Brāhmaṇa, shall sit on grass, allowing his back to be scorched (by the sun). 11. A Brāhmaṇa removes the sin which he committed by serving one day and night (a man of) the black race, if he bathes for three years, eating at every fourth meal-time. [back to top] : 27 . 'The oblations of sacred fuel (samidh) are not to be accompanied by the exclamation Svāhā'--Haradatta. : Iṣṭis are the simplest forms of the Śrauta-sacrifices, i.e. of those for which three fires are necessary. : For some particular kinds of forbidden food the same penance is prescribed, Manu XI, 153-154.