Brahmanicide

Mbh.5.10.452	Now when the mighty Vritra, terrible to the gods, was killed, Indra became overpowered by falsehood, and he became exceedingly sad; and he was also overpowered by the sin of Brahmanicide on account of having killed the three-headed son of Twashtri.
Mbh.5.10.456	And when the lord of celestials, oppressed with the dread of Brahmanicide, had vanished from sight, the earth looked as if a havoc had passed over it.
Mbh.5.13.567	And skilled in making speeches, the uneasy gods spoke the following words to him, Indra, the lord of all the gods, hath been overpowered by the sin of Brahmanicide.
Mbh.5.13.570	When Vritra was killed through thy energy, Indra was overwhelmed by the sin of Brahmanicide.
Mbh.5.13.579	And there, O king, was performed a great horse-sacrifice, capable of removing the sin of Brahmanicide, for the purification of the high-minded and great Indra.
Mbh.5.13.580	And the lord of the gods, O Yudhishthira, divided the sin of Brahmanicide among trees and rivers and mountains and the earth and women.
Mbh.9.41.2985	Janamejaya said, For what reason was Indra tainted with the sin of Brahmanicide?
Mbh.12.26.1185	A person of narrow heart, setting at naught the fear of repentance, commits acts of aggression towards others, tempted by even a little wealth, unconscious all the while of the sin of Brahmanicide that he incurs by his acts.
Mbh.12.55.2965	If a Brahmana becomes guilty of Brahmanicide, or of violating the bed of his preceptor or other revered senior, or of causing miscarriage, or of treason against the king, his punishment should be banishment from thy dominions.
Mbh.12.67.3740	In the absence of royal protection, the slayer of a person guilty of the slaughter of a Brahmana would not obtain any reward; on the other hand the person guilty of Brahmanicide would enjoy perfect immunity.
Mbh.12.110.6241	If one, while in the observance of a particular mode of life, slays a Brahmana, will not the sin of Brahmanicide attach to him?
Mbh.12.149.8903	For washing himself of the sin of Brahmanicide he interrogated many Brahmanas, and wandered from country to country over the whole earth.
Mbh.12.164.9744	The maiden who suffers her virginity to be deflowered incurs three-fourths of the sin of Brahmanicide, while the man that deflowers her incurs a sin equal to a fourth part of that of Brahmanicide.
Mbh.12.164.9761	The man who knowingly slays such a woman incurs double the sin that follows from Brahmanicide.
Mbh.12.265.16151	Then again the sinfulness in this case is evident of Indra himself who by acting in the way he did caused the recollection of the request that had been made to him in days of yore by woman when a third part of the sin of Brahmanicide of which Indra himself was guilty was cast upon her sex.
Mbh.12.270.16612	Thus worshipped, the Cloud became very soon pleased with his worshipper and uttered these words fraught with benefit to that Brahmana, The wise have ordained expiation for one guilty of Brahmanicide, or of drinking alcohol or of stealing, or of neglecting all meritorious vows.
Mbh.12.281.17301	Just then, O thou of Kuru's race, the sin of Brahmanicide in her embodied form, fierce and awful and inspiring all the worlds with dread, issued out of the body of the slain Vritra.
Mbh.12.281.17306	When the sin of Brahmanicide thus stuck to his person and inspired him with terror, Indra entered the fibres of a lotus-stalk and dwelt there for many long years.
Mbh.12.281.17307	But the sin of Brahmanicide pursued him closely.
Mbh.12.281.17311	Understanding that Sakra was possessed by the sin of Brahmanicide Brahman began to reflect, O best of the Bharatas, upon the means of freeing his suppliant.
Mbh.12.281.17312	The grandsire at last, O thou of mighty arms, addressed Brahmanicide in a sweet voice as if from the desire of pacifying her, and said, O amiable one, let the chief of the celestials, who is a favourite of mine, be freed from thee.
Mbh.12.281.17315	Brahmanicide said, When the Creator of the three worlds, when the illustrious god adored by the universe, hath been pleased with me, I regard my wishes as already accomplished.
Mbh.12.281.17321	Bhishma continued, The Grandsire replied unto Brahmanicide, saying, So be it'
Mbh.12.281.17322	Indeed, the Grandsire discovered means for dispelling Brahmanicide from the person of Indra.
Mbh.12.281.17326	Brahman said, I shall divide this sin of Brahmanicide into several portions.
Mbh.12.281.17331	Brahman said, Unto that man who, overwhelmed by the quality of Tamas, will abstain from offering thee as an oblation, when he beholds thee in thy blazing form, seeds, herbs, and juices, that portion of Brahmanicide which thou wilt take upon thyself shall immediately enter, and leaving thee shall dwell in him.
Mbh.12.281.17339	We are willing, O Lord of the three worlds, to take at thy command a portion of this sin of Brahmanicide.
Mbh.12.281.17343	The Grandsire of all the worlds then summoned the Apsaras and gratifying them with sweet words, O Bharata, said, This foremost of ladies, viz, Brahmanicide, has come out of Indra's person.
Mbh.12.281.17354	Take ye a fourth part of Brahmanicide'
Mbh.12.281.17361	Bhishma continued, Then the sin of Brahmanicide, O Yudhishthira, leaving the chief of the deities, proceeded to the abodes that were ordained for her at the Grandsire's command.
Mbh.12.281.17364	It is heard, O monarch, that Indra having been thus possessed by the sin of Brahmanicide afterwards became cleansed of her through that Sacrifice.
Mbh.12.342.22462	In consequence of the sin of Brahmanicide, being thus doubled Indra became overcome with a great fear and as the consequence thereof he had to abandon the sovereignty of heaven.
Mbh.12.342.22465	When the lord of the three worlds, the husband of Sachi, had thus disappeared from sight through fear of the sin of Brahmanicide, the universe became lordless.
Mbh.12.342.22526	Approaching him, they said, O holy one, it behoveth thee to rescue Indra who is overwhelmed by the sin of Brahmanicide.
Mbh.12.342.22535	He continued to rule in heaven, cleansed of the sin of Brahmanicide which was divided into four portions and ordained to reside in woman, fire, trees, and kine.
Mbh.12.357.23714	We have none amongst us that has been guilty of Brahmanicide.
Mbh.13.18.2785	As the reward of those penances, I obtained from Sarva, O son of king Pandu, a hundred sons, all of whom were born without the intervention of woman, of well-restrained soul, conversant with righteousness, possessed of great splendour, free from disease and sorrow, and endued with lives extending over a hundred thousand years, Then the illustrious Valmiki, addressing Yudhishthira, said, Once upon a time, in course of a dialectical disputation, certain ascetics that were possessors of the homa fire denounced me as one guilty of Brahmanicide.
Mbh.13.18.2786	As soon as they had denounced me as such, the sin of Brahmanicide, O Bharata, possessed me.
Mbh.13.18.2789	That dispeller of all sorrows, viz, the destroyer of the triple city of the Asuras, said unto me, Thy fame shall be great in the world, Then Jamadagni's son, that foremost of all righteous persons, shining like the Sun with blazing splendour in the midst of that conclave of Rishis, said unto the son of Kunti these words, I was afflicted with the sin, O eldest son of Pandu, of Brahmanicide for having slain my brothers who were all learned Brahmanas.
Mbh.13.22.3250	To utter false-hood in a court of justice, to behave deceitfully towards the king, to act falsely towards preceptors and seniors, are regarded as equivalent in heinousness to Brahmanicide.
Mbh.13.22.3257	All these offences are equivalent to Brahmanicide'
Mbh.13.24.3400	What are those circumstances under which a person may become guilty of Brahmanicide without actually slaying a Brahmana'
Mbh.13.24.3406	What are those circumstances under which one becomes guilty of Brahmanicide without actually slaying a Brahmana, Thus addressed by me, the son of Parasara's loins, O king, well-skilled n the science of morality, made me the following answer, at once excellent and fraught with certainty, Thou shouldst know that man as guilty of Brahmanicide who having of his own will invited a Brahmana of righteous conduct to his house for giving him alms subsequently refuses to give anything to him on the pretence of there being nothing in the house.
Mbh.13.24.3407	Thou shouldst, O Bharata, know that man as guilty of Brahmanicide who destroys the means of living of a Brahmana learned in the Vedas and all their branches, and who is freed from attachments to worldly creatures and goods.
Mbh.13.24.3408	Thou shouldst, O king, know that man to be guilty of Brahmanicide, who causes obstructions in the way of thirsty kine while employed in quenching that thirst.
Mbh.13.24.3409	Thou shouldst take that man as guilty of Brahmanicide who, without studying the Srutis that have flowed from preceptor to pupil for ages and ages together, finds fault with the Srutis or with those scriptures that have been composed by the Rishis.
Mbh.13.24.3410	Thou shouldst know that man as guilty of Brahmanicide who does not bestow upon a suitable bride-groom his daughter possessed of beauty and other excellent accomplishments.
Mbh.13.24.3411	Thou shouldst know that foolish and sinful person to be guilty of Brahmanicide who inflicts such grief upon Brahmanas as afflict the very core of their hearts.
Mbh.13.24.3412	Thou shouldst know that man to be guilty of Brahmanicide who robs the blind, the lame, and idiots of their all.
Mbh.13.24.3413	Thou shouldst know that man to be guilty of Brahmanicide who sets fire to the retreats of ascetics or to woods or to a village or a town
Mbh.13.25.3438	By bathing, after a fast of three days and purifying the mind of all evil passions, in the large lake of Bhrigu Kunda, one becomes cleansed of even the sin of Brahmanicide.
Mbh.13.25.3461	Bathing in Asmaprishtha and Niravinda mountains and Kraunchapadi, all three in Gaya, one becomes cleansed of the sin of Brahmanicide.
Mbh.13.25.3462	A bath in the first place cleanses one of a single Brahmanicide; a bath in the second cleanses one of two offences of that character; and a bath in the third cleanses one of three such offences.
Mbh.13.33.4072	The great Rishis have said that Brahmanicide is a heinous sin.
Mbh.13.91.8195	From the place where the Sraddha is being performed, the Chandala and the Swapacha should be excluded, as also all who wear clothes steeped in yellow, and persons affected with leprosy, or one who has been excasted for transgressions, or one who is guilty of Brahmanicide, or a Brahmana of mixed descent or one who is the relative of an excasted man.
Mbh.13.94.8582	Let him be guilty of Brahmanicide.
Mbh.13.94.8606	Let him be guilty also of Brahmanicide
Mbh.13.127.11044	That man of little understanding who cutteth down a large tree on the day of the new moon, becomes stained with the sin of Brahmanicide.
Mbh.13.130.11126	These four, viz, he that is bereft of faith, he that is full of pride, he that is guilty of Brahmanicide, and he that violates the bed of his preceptor, should never be talked to.
Mbh.13.130.11172	Brahmanicide, for the gift of a single Kapila cow is regarded as equal in point of merit to that of a hundred kine.
Mbh.13.143.11919	That Brahmana who drinks alcohol, who becomes guilty of Brahmanicide or mean in his behaviour, or a thief, or who breaks his vows, or becomes impure, or unmindful of his Vedic studies, or sinful, or characterised by cupidity, or guilty of cunning or cheating, or who does not observe vows, or who weds a Sudra woman, or who derives his subsistence by pandering to the lusts of other people or who sells the Soma plant, or who serves a person of an order below his, falls away from his status of Brahmanahood
Mbh.18.5.281	Of that man who listens with rapt attention to the recitation of the whole of this Veda composed by the Island-born Krishna, a million sins, numbering such grave ones as Brahmanicide and the rest, are washed off.
Mbh.18.6.464	He that listens with devotion to this Bharata from the beginning becomes cleansed of every sin even if he be guilty of Brahmanicide or the violation of his preceptors bed, or even if he be a drinker of alcohol or a robber of other peoples wares, or even if he be born in the Chandala order.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

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