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Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems

BOOK XXVI
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See in Menu, the penalties and expiation for killing a Brahmin undesignedly, xi, 74, 82; compare 90.

An assaulter of a Brahman with intent to kill, shall remain in hell a hundred years; for actually striking him with like intent, a thousand; as many small pellets of dust as the blood of a Brahmin collects on the ground, for so many thousand years must the shedder of that blood be tormented in hell.xi.207, 8.] [Footnote 152: p.97.l.23.

_I've reached the wished for realms of joy_.

Among the acts which lead to eternal bliss are these: "Studying and comprehending the Veda--showing reverence to a natural or spiritual father." MENU, xii, 83.] NOTES TO THE BRAHMIN'S LAMENT.
[Footnote 153: p.104.l.

5 .-- _a heaven-winning race may make_.
Literally: Whom Brahma has placed with me in trust for a future husband, and through whose offspring I may obtain with my progenitors the regions secured by ablutions made by a daughter's sons.


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