Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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XXIX, 1.
STUDENTSHIP.
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50. Eating once a day only a meal consisting of the alms obtained at those (houses), and bathing at the three Savanas (dawn, noon, and evening), he will be absolved from guilt at the end of the year.
51. After an involuntary effusion of the semen during sleep, a twice-born student must bathe (on the next morning), worship the sun (by offerings of perfumes and the like), and mutter three times the Mantra, 'Again shall my strength return to me?'
52. He who for seven days omits to collect alms and to kindle the sacred fire, must perform the penance of an Avakirnin (breaker of his vow), provided that he has not been prevented from the discharge of his duties by an illness.
53. If the sun should rise or set while a student is purposely indulging in sleep, ignoring (the precepts of law), he must fast for a day, muttering (the Gâyatri one thousand and eight times).
XXIX. 1. He who having initiated a youth and instructed him in the Vratas?, teaches him (one branch of) the Veda (together with its Angas, such as that relating to phonetics, and the rest) is called Åkarya (teacher).
51. * Taitt. Arany. I, 30.
XXIX. 1. Âpast. I, 1, 1, 13; Gaut. I, 9. — 1-3. M. II, 140143; Y. I, 34, 35.-7-10. M. II, 111, 112, 114, 115.-9, 10. See Bühler, Introd. to Digest, p. xxix.
1. The Vratas of a student are certain observances to be kept by him before he is admitted to the regular course of study of the Veda, and again before he is allowed to proceed to the study of the Mahânâmni verses and to the other higher stages of Vedic learning. See, particularly, Sânkh. II, 11, 12, with Dr. Oldenberg's note (Ind. Stud. XV, 139).
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