The expiatory rite for Apdnktas (outcastes i.e. those who are not eligible to sit in the same rows for meals with others) is missing five meals and taking meal only on the sixth occasion, for one month. The Japa of the Saihhita and the Homas as per procedure laid down by Sakala, every day. *The reading should be probably agnyutsadi and not anyotsadi as in Vehk. Ed. agnyutsadi means ‘one who has destroyed (given up fire worship by extinguishing) the sacred fire.*’