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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XLVIII, 6.
PENANCES.
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10. After having performed this penance, in a former age, the seven holy Rishis, Brahman, and Rudra acquired a splendid abode, O Earth.
XLVIII.
1. Now if a man feels his conscience charged with some guilty act (such as performing a sacrifice for, or accepting a gift from, unworthy persons, or eating excrements) committed by himself (or if his conscience tells him that he has done more evil than good, or if he thinks himself less pure than others), let him boil a handful of barley-gruel for the sake of his own spiritual welfare.
2. Let him not make the (customary) Vaisvadeva offering after that.
3. Neither must he make the Bali offerings.
4. Let him consecrate with Mantras the barley, before it has been put to the fire, while it is being boiled, and after it has been boiled. • 5. Let him watch the barley, while it is being boiled (muttering at the same time the following Mantra):
6. 'Soma, who is the highest priest among priests (gods), leader among the wise, Rishi among bards, the falcon among rapacious birds, the Svadhiti tree among trees, trickles murmuring through the filter?.' day; or fasting for three days, and eating thirty-two mouthfuls on the fourth day. (Nand.)
XLVIII. I. Gaut. XIX, 13.
2, 3. Regarding the regular oblations which have to be offered at meal times &c. to the Visvedevâs and to all beings (bhûtâni), see LIX, 22, 24; LXVIII, 1-22.
4. The Mantras are given below, 17-22.
6. Rig-veda IX, 96,6. Regarding the translation of this verse, see Dr. Zimmer's remarks, Altindisches Leben, p. 207.
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