A person who takes intoxicating liquors, who appropriates others' properties without their consent, one guilty of foeticide, one who violates his preceptor's bed, are all purified by penance duly performed.
सुरापोऽसम्मतादायी भ्रूणहा गुरुतल्पगः। तपसैव सुतप्तेन नरः पापात् प्रमुच्यते॥