Shloka 43
Dietary Rules & Purification — Dietary Rules, Purification (Śauca), and the Duties of the Householder and Forest-Dweller
ऊर्द्ध्वं संचयनात्तेषामङ्गस्पर्शो विधीयते सोदकैस्तु क्रिया कार्या संशुद्धैस्तु सपिण्डजैः
ūrddhvaṃ saṃcayanātteṣāmaṅgasparśo vidhīyate sodakaistu kriyā kāryā saṃśuddhaistu sapiṇḍajaiḥ
遺骨の収集の後には、彼ら（参加者）との身体的接触が許される。とはいえ、儀礼は浄めの水を伴って行い、清浄となったサピンダ（sapinda）親族によって執行されるべきである。
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FAQs
Ritual purity is presented as a structured social ethic: impurity is temporary and rule-governed, enabling mourners to reintegrate into normal relations while still safeguarding the sanctity of rites through purification.
As with the surrounding material, this is dharma/ācāra-oriented instruction embedded in a purāṇic frame; it is not directly one of the core pancalakṣaṇa narrative categories.
The restoration of permissible touch after asthi-saṃcayana symbolizes closure of the most acute liminal phase; water functions as the medium of cleansing and transition from death-contact back to auspicious social life.