A drinker of alcoholic liquors becomes cleansed by drinking hot alcohol.  His body being burnt with that hot drink, he is cleansed through death in the other world.[477] A Brahmana stained by such a sin obtains regions of felicity by such a course and not by any other.  For violating the bed of a preceptor, the wicked-souled and sinful wretch becomes cleansed by the death that results from embracing a heated female figure of iron.  Or, cutting off his organ and testicles and bearing them in his hands, he should go on in a straight course towards the south-west and then cast off his life.  Or, by meeting with death for the sake of benefiting a Brahmana, he may wash off his sin.  Or, after performing a horse-sacrifice or a cow-sacrifice or an Agnishtoma, he may regain esteem both here and hereafter.  The slayer of a Brahmana should practise the vow of Brahmacharya for twelve years and devoting himself to penances, wander, holding in his hands the skull of the slain all the time and proclaiming his sin unto all.  He should even adopt such a course, devoted to penance and leading the life of an ascetic.  Even such is the expiation provided for one who slays a woman quick with child, knowing her condition.  The man who knowingly slays such a woman incurs double the sin that follows from Brahmanicide.  A drinker of alcoholic liquor should live on frugal fare, practising Brahmacharya vows, and sleep on the bare ground, and perform, for more than three years the sacrifice next to the Agnishtoma.  He should then make a present of a thousand kine with one bull (unto a good Brahmana).  Doing all this, he would regain his purity.  Having slain a Vaisya one should perform such a sacrifice for two years and make a present of a hundred kine with one bull.  Having slain a Sudra, one should perform such a sacrifice for one year and make a present of a hundred kine with one bull.  Having slain a dog or bear or camel, one should perform the same penance that is laid down for the slaughter of a Sudra.  For slaying a cat, a chasa, a frog, a crow, a reptile, or a rat, it has been said, one incurs the sin of animal slaughter, O king!  I shall now tell thee of other kinds of expiations in their order.  For all minor sins one should repent or practise some vow for one year.  For congress with the wife of a Brahmana conversant with the Vedas, one should for three years practise the vow of Brahmacharya, taking a little food at the fourth part of the day.  For congress with any other woman (who is not one’s wife), one should practise similar penance for two years.  For taking delight in a woman’s company by sitting with her on the same spot or on the same seat, one should live only on water for three days.  By doing this he may cleanse himself of his sin.  The same is laid down for one who befouls a blazing fire (by throwing impure things on it).  He who without adequate cause, casts off his sire or mother or preceptor, surely becomes fallen, O thou of Kuru’s race, as the conclusion is of the