Institutes of Vishnu — XXXIV.
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# XXXIV.
- Sexual connection with one's mother, or daughter, or daughter-in-law are crimes in the highest degree.
- Such criminals in the highest degree should proceed into the flames; for there is not any other way to atone for their crime.
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