Child, brahmana, cow, and woman, they are to be given protection by the laws of Vedic instruction

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So degree, the most sinful activity, according to Vedic information--to kill a child, to kill a woman, to kill a brahmana, and to kill a cow. This is very abominable punishment. Child, brahmana, cow, and woman, they are to be given protection by the laws of Vedic instruction. They have to be protected. So this should be very carefully done. Stri-sudra-dvija-bandhunam. Stri, they are considered either as innocent as the child or as innocent as the animal. So they should be given always protection. So here it is said that tasmat puraiva asu iha papa-niskrtau. Very busy. We do not know when is, when we shall die. But we must know, we have committed so many sinful activities; therefore before the next death, yateta mrtyor avipadyatatmana. Mrtyu: we have to die. Before death, we have to make the atonement. "Otherwise," Sukadeva Gosvami says, "as I have already described the different position of hellish condition of life, one has to suffer."