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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VASISHTHA.
III, 20.
on the mother's and on the father's side, are distinctly known to have been Srotriyas, and learned men and Snâtakas.
20. (Four students of) the four Vedas, one who knows the Mîmâmsâ, one who knows the Angas, a teacher of the sacred law, and three eminent men who are in three (different) orders, (compose) a (legal) assembly consisting at least of ten (members).
21. He who initiates (a pupil) and teaches him the whole Veda is called the teacher (âkârya).
22. But he who (teaches) a portion (of the Veda only is called) the sub-teacher (upâdhyâya);
23. So is he who (teaches) the Angas of the Veda.
24. A Brâhmana and a Vaisya may take up arms in self-defence, and in (order to prevent) a confusion of the castes.
25. But that (trade of arms) is the constant (duty). of a Kshatriya, because he is appointed to protect (the people).
26. Having washed his feet and his hands up to note on Âpastamba II, 8, 17, 22; Gautama XV, 28; and the notes on Vishnu LXXXIII, 2-21. Regarding the meaning of Khandoga,
one who knows the first part of the Sâma-veda Samhitâ,' see Weber, Hist. Ind. Lit., p. 63, note 59. One who knows the Samhitâ and the Brâhmana, i.e. of the Rig-veda.'-Krishnapandita. Regarding the various classes of Snâtakas, see Apastamba I, 11, 30, 1-3.
20. Manu XII, II1. Krishnapandita reads katurvidyas trikalpi ka, one who knows the four Vedas and one who knows. three different Kalpa-sätras.' My translation follows the reading of the MSS., kâturvidyam vikalpi ka, which is corroborated by the parallel passage of Baudhayana I, 1, 8, 'kâturvaidyam vikalpi ka. The explanation of the latter word is derived from Govindasvâmin. Men who are in three orders, i.e. a student, a householder, and ascetic,' see Gautama XXVIII, 49. 21-23. Vishnu XXIX, 1-2.
24. Gautama VII, 25. 25. Vishnu II, 6.
26–34. Vishnu LXII, 1-9.
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