Parasara Samhita.Original Text with a Literal Prose English Translation

(22) The Code of Manu was the authorized Code in the Satya; the Code of Gautama in the Tritti; the Codes of S'ankha and Likhita in the Dvapara; and the Code of Paris'ara in the Kali yuga. [...] (28) The vital energy lies inherent in the bones in the Satya Yuga ; in the flesh in the Trill ; in blood in the Dvdpara and in the food (of a person) in the Kali Yuga. [...] (4) Brahmanas who touch carry or commit to flames the corpse of a suicide dead by hanging or of one killed by a bull (lit—cotv) as well as the cutters of the noose in the first named and the followers of the corpse in either case shoed recover the natural cleaness of their persons by eachpractising a Tapta Krichchha Vratam and by feeding the Brahmanas as well by way of. [...] (16) As the owner of a field wherein asiseed carried by the wind seen to Opropt beconis the owner of that sprolitlini also add not the owner of the seed ; so the husband of # woman in whom another person has cast his seed becomes the ower of the child born thereof in contradistinction to the Evvner of the sperm. [...] 140) In the case where a washer-woman or a woman of the coblar hunter or Pukkas a class resides incognito in the house of a member of any of the four social orders only half of what has been laid down ig the 'preceding case with the exception of burning down the room should be practised by way of purification.-(0-42)Pakiara Satnhit 4. 565 One.