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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XXX, 5.
STUDENTSHIP.
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XXX. 1. After having performed the Upâkarman ceremony on the full moon of the month Srâvana, or of the month Bhadra, the student must (pass over the two next days without studying, and then) study for four months and a half.
2. After that, the teacher must perform out of town the ceremony of Utsarga for those students (that have acted up to this injunction); but not for those who have failed to perform the ceremony of U pâkarman.
3. During the period (subsequent upon the ceremony of Upâkarman and) intermediate between it and the ceremony of Utsarga, the student must read the Vedângas.
4. He must interrupt his study for a day and a night on the fourteenth and eighth days of a month?.
5. (He must interrupt 'his study for the next day
XXX. 1–33..Weber, Ind. Stud. X, 130-134; Nakshatras II, 322, 338–339; M. IV, 95-123; II, 71, 74 ; Y. I, 142-151; Apast. I, 3,9II; Gaut. XVI; 1, 51, 53. - 33–38. Âsv. III, 3, 3; M. II, 107; Y. I, 41-46. — 41, 42. M. II, 116. — 43-46. M. II, 117, 146-148, 144.
1-3. The annual course of Vedic studies opens with a ceremony called Upâkarman, and closes with a ceremony called Utsarga. The latter, according to the rule laid down in Sūtra 1, would fall upon the first day of the moon's increase, either in Pausha or in Mâgha. Nand. states that those students who have not performed the Upâkarman ceremony in due time must perform a penance before they can be admitted to the Utsarga; nor must those be admitted to it who have failed to go on to the study of another branch of the Veda at the ordinary time, after having absolved one.
4. 'Nand., with reference to a passage of Hârîta, considers the use of the plural and of the particle ka to imply that the study must also be interrupted on the first and fifteenth days.
5. This refers to the second days of the months Phâlguna, Ashâdha, and Kârttika. (Nand.)
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