Dhammapada

SR No.: 007674
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2540
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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II KÂNDA, 6 ADHYAYA, I BRÂHMANA, 16.
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poured out (the lustral water on the lower ends of the grass-stalks), and untied the knot, he (at once) seizes the knot, not the prastara';—it is once for all that the fathers have departed : hence he does not take the prastara.
15. After undoing the band, he moves thrice ? round from right to left, spreading the sacrificial grass all over (the altar); while spreading it all over from right to left in three layers, he reserves as much as may serve for the prastara-bunch. He then moves again thrice round (the altar) from left to right. The reason why he again moves thrice round from left to right, is that, while the first time he went away from here after those three ancestors of his, he now comes back again from them to this, his own world: that is why he again moves thrice round from left to right.
16. He lays the enclosing-sticks along (the fire, with their tops) towards the south 3; and the prastara also he spreads (with the grass-tops) towards the south ; nor does he lay down the two vidhritis between (the barhis and the prastara). Once for all the fathers have departed from hence: therefore he lays no vidhritis between.
As he did on the former occasion, I, 3, 3. 5. ? According to Taitt. Br. 1, 6, 8, 7, because the fathers abide in the third world from here (tritiye vâ ito loke pitarah).
• Viz. he is to lay down the enclosing-sticks along the north, west, and east sides, the last two with their tops towards the south. The third text (cf. I, 3, 4, 4) has, of course, to be changed to 'May Mitra-Varuna lay thee around in the east,' &c.; as has also the one he mutters after putting the two sticks on the fire, to . May the sun guard thee from the south against any imprecation !' (1, 3, 4, 8.) According to Taitt. Br. I, 6, 8, 8-9, on the other hand, he is to lay down only two enclosing-sticks (viz. the middle or western, and the northern one, cf. Sâyana on Taitt. S. II, p. 72).
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