TAINT OTHERS
GEN
If
an untouchable man (Panchaman-fifth caste) enters our house, all pots made of
mud should be thrown away, others washed using cow dung water and cleaned with
Punyaham. Cooked food should be thrown out. A cow should be brought in and then
only house will become pure.
If
a Shudra, Brahmin with taint, Brahmin who has cropped his head, Dog or crow
touches us, we have to take bath in the river along with clothes that we are
wearing. If we do not do it, the religious act (ritual) will not have any
effect.
Ponds where cows take their bath are pure, even if touched by a Panchaman.
Though
silk is made by a killing an insect, learned people say that it does not have
taint. If it is washed or given to the washer man, then this property is not
there for silk. It will then have regular taint. But if is washed with the
watery gruel of green gram on Amavasya or Dwadasi , then its purity is
maintained.
If
our stool, urine or those of others fall upon us, we have to immediately take
bath with the cloths that we are wearing.
Similarly
the milk we get is taken after the calf drinks milk from the cow’s udder. The
touching of the saliva on its udder does not make the milk unclean. Similar is
the case for honey. Even though it is tainted by the saliva of the bee, it is
considered as pure enough to be used for anointing the God. Similarly the
banyan tree comes out of the crow after it has eaten its seed. It does not make
it tainted.
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