If a Brahmana accepts gold from any one, he becomes cleansed of all sins by silently reciting the great Gayatri, and by holding a piece of iron in his hand, before the public. In accepting money or clothes or women or gold, the purification is the same as before.
काञ्चनं प्रतिगृह्याथ जपमानो गुरुश्रुतिम्। कृष्णायसं च विवृतं धारयन् मुच्यते द्विजः॥ एवं प्रतिगृहीतेऽथ धने वस्त्रे तथा स्त्रियाम्। एवमेव नरश्रेष्ठ सुवर्णस्य प्रतिग्रहे॥