scriptures.  Only food and clothes should be given, as the injunction is, unto a wife guilty of adultery or one confined in a prison.  Indeed, the vows that are laid down for a male person guilty of adultery should be caused to be observed by also a woman who is guilty of the same.  That woman who abandoning a husband of a superior caste, has congress with a vile person (of a lower order), should be caused by the king to be devoured by dogs in a public place in the midst of a large concourse of spectators.[478] A wise king should cause the male person committing adultery under such circumstances to be placed upon a heated bed of iron and then, placing faggots underneath, burn the sinner thereon.  The same punishment, O king, is provided for the woman that is guilty of adultery.  The wicked sinner who does not perform expiation within a year of the commission of the sin incurs demerit that is double of what attaches to the original sin.  One who associates with such a person for two years must wander over the earth, devoting himself to penances and living upon eleemosynary charity.  One associating with a sinner for four years should adopt such a mode of life for five years.  If a younger brother weds before his elder brother, then the younger brother, the elder brother and the woman that is married, all three, in consequence of such wedding, become fallen.  All of them should observe the vows prescribed for a person who has neglected his sacrificial fire, or practise the vow of Chandrayana for a month, or some other painful vow, for cleansing themselves of their sin.  The younger brother, wedding, should give his wife unto his unmarried elder brother.  Afterwards, having obtained the permission of the elder brother, the younger brother may take back his wife.  By such means may all three be cleansed of their sin.  By slaying animals save a cow, the slayer is not stained.  The learned know that man has dominion over all the lower animals.  A sinner, holding in his hand a yak-tail and an earthen pot, should go about, proclaiming his sin.  He should every day beg of only seven families, and live upon what may be thus obtained.  By doing this for twelve days he may be cleansed of his sin.  He who becomes unable to bear in his hand the yak-tail while practising this vow, should observe the vow of mendicancy (as stated above) for one whole year.  Amongst men such expiation is the best.  For those that are able to practise charity, the practice of charity has been laid down in all such cases.  Those who have faith and virtue may cleanse themselves by giving away only one cow.  One who eats or drinks the flesh, ordure, or urine, of a dog, a boar, a man, a cock, or a camel must have his investiture of the sacred thread re-performed.  If a Soma-drinking Brahmana inhales the scent of alcohol from the mouth of one that has drunk it, he should drink warm water for three days or warm milk for the same period.  Or, drinking warm water for three days he should live for that period upon air alone.  These are the eternal injunctions laid down for the expiation of sin, especially for a Brahmana who has committed these sins through ignorance and want of judgment.’”