हविष्पान्तीयमभ्यस्य न तमं ह इतीति च । जपित्वा पौरुषं सूक्तं मुच्यते गुरुतल्पगः ॥ २५१ ॥
The violator of a Guru’s bed is freed (from sin), if he repeatedly recites the Havishpantiya (hymn), (that beginning) ’Neither anxiety nor misfortune,’(and that beginning) ’Thus, verily, thus,’and mutters the hymn addressed to Purusha.
He who desires to expiate sins great or small, must mutter during a year the Rit-verse ’May we remove thy anger, O Varuna,’&c., or ’Whatever offence here, O Varuna,’&c.
That man who, having accepted presents which ought not to be accepted, or having eaten forbidden food, mutters the Taratsamandiya (Rikas), becomes pure after three days.
But he who has committed many sins, becomes pure, if he recites during a month the (four verses) addressed to Soma and Rudra, and the three verses (beginning) ’Aryaman, Varuna, and Mitra,’while he bathes in a river.
A grievous offender shall mutter the seven verses (beginning with) ’Indra,’for half a year; but he who has committed any blamable act in water, shall subsist during a month on food obtained by begging.