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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XLVII, 2.
PENANCES.
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in which Kusa grass has been boiled, and fasting the next day, is called Sântapana (the tormenting penance)
20. Swallowing (the same six things, viz.) cowurine and the rest, each for one day, is called Mahasântapana (the particularly tormenting penance).
21. Swallowing each for three days is called Atisântapana (the extremely tormenting penance).
22. Swallowing oil-cakes, foam of boiled rice, buttermilk, water, and ground barley (each for one day), with a fasting day between (every two days), is called Tulâpurusha (a man's weight).
23. Drinking water boiled with Kusa grass, leaves of the Palâsa and Udumbara trees, of lotuses, of the Sankhapushpi plant, of the banyan tree, and of the Brahmasuvarkalâ plant, each (for one day), is called Parnakrikkhra (leaves penance).
24. Let a man perform all those penances after having shorn his hair and his beard, and let him bathe at morning, noon, and evening every day, lying on a low couch, and restraining his passions,
25. And let him (while engaged in performing them) avoid to converse with women, Súdras, or outcasts, and let him constantly, to the best of his ability, mutter purifying Mantras and make oblations in the fire.
XLVII. 1. Now follows the Kândrayana (lunar penance).
2. Let a man eat single mouthfuls (of food) unchanged in size;
XLVII. 1-10. M. XI, 217-222. — 1-3, 9. Y. III, 324, 325. — 1-4. Gaut. XXVII, 12–15.
2. Unchanged in size' means of that size precisely which the law prescribes. Yaghavalkya (III, 324) states that each daily
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