Teachers of scriptures have held that for the expiation of sins one should study the three Vedas, serve and adore the Brahmanas, please all men by looks, words, and acts, shake off all meanness, merry in high families, sing the praises of others while admitting his own worthlessness, recite Mantras, perform the usual water-rites, assume a mildness of conduct, and abstain from too much speaking, and practise austere penances, seek refuge with the Brahmanas and Kshatriyas. Indeed, one who has perpretrated many evil acts, should do all this, without being angry at the censures of other man.
अत्रैतदाहुराचार्याः पापस्य परिमोक्षणे। त्रयीं विद्यामवेक्षेत तथोपासीत वै द्विजान्॥ प्रसादयेच्चक्षुषा वाचा चाप्यथ कर्मणा। महामनाश्चापि भवेद् विवहेच्च महाकुले॥ इत्यस्मीति वदेदेवं परेषां कीर्तयेद् गुणान्। जपेदुदकशीलः स्यात् पेशलो नातिजल्पकः॥ ब्रह्मक्षत्रं सम्प्रविशेद् बहु कृत्वा सुदुष्करम्। उच्यमानो हि लोकेन बहुकृत् तदचिन्तयन्॥