Expiations for Ritual and Temporal Offences in Worship, and the Prescribed Purificatory Procedure
Upaspṛśya
आकाशशयनं कृत्वा दिनानि दश पञ्च च ॥ मुच्यते किल्बिषात्तत्र देवि चैव न संशयः ॥
ākāśaśayanaṃ kṛtvā dināni daśa pañca ca || mucyate kilbiṣāttatra devi caiva na saṃśayaḥ ||
पंद्रह दिन तक खुले आसमान के नीचे सोना है। वहाँ पाप से छुटकारा मिल जाता है। देवी, इसमें कोई शक नहीं है।
Varāha (contextual continuation)
It documents a concrete, bodily form of expiation typical of Dharma and Purāṇic literature, useful for comparative study of penance systems.
No named place; the practice is described generally as sleeping under the open sky.
That corrective discipline can be enacted through time-bound austerity intended to acknowledge and remediate fault.
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