Manu 5.103
अनुगम्य-इच्छया प्रेतं ज्ञातिम् अज्ञातिम् एव च ॥[म्। अज्ञातिम् एव वा] स्नात्वा सचैलः स्पृष्ट्वा-अग्निं घृतं प्राश्य विशुध्यति ॥ [म्सचैलं, विशुद्ध्यति ]
anugamya-icchayā pretaṃ jñātim ajñātim eva ca ||[M. ajñātim eva vā] snātvā sa.cailaḥ spṛṣṭvā-agniṃ ghṛtaṃ prāśya viśudhyati || [M.sa.cailaṃ, viśuddhyati ]
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Having voluntarily followed a corpse, whether (that of) a paternal kinsman or (of) a stranger, he becomes pure by bathing, dressed in his clothes, by touching fire and eating clarified butter.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.