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, 56.
56. But land becomes pure, according to the degree of defilement, by sweeping (the defiled spot), by smearing it with cowdung, by scraping it, by sprinkling (water) or by heaping (pure earth) on (it).
57. Now they quote also (the following verses) : * Land is purified by these four methods, by digging, burning, scraping, being trodden on by cows, and fifthly by being smeared with cowdung.
58. ‘A woman is purified by her monthly disa charge, a river by its current, brass by (being scoured with) ashes, and an earthen pot by another. burning.'
59. But an earthen vessel which has been defiled by spirituous liquor, urine, ordure, phlegm, pus, tears, or blood cannot be purified even by another burning.'
60. “The body is purified by water, the internal organ by truth, the soul by sacred learning and austerities, and the understanding by knowledge.' 61. Gold is purified by water alone, 6.2. Likewise silver, .
56. Vishnu XXIII, 56-57. Krishnapandita takes upakarana, "heaping (pure earth) on (the defiled spot),' to mean 'lighting a fire on it' or digging it up. The translation given above rests on the parallel passages of Gautama I, 32, and of Baudhayana I, 5, 52, bhûmes tu sammârganaprokshanopalepanâvastaranopalekhanairyathasthânam doshaviseshât prayatyam, 'land becomes pure, according to the degree of the defilement, by sweeping the (defiled) spot, by sprinkling it, by smearing it with cowdung, by scattering (pure earth) on it, or by scraping it.' Bhumi, 'land,' includes also the mud-floor of a house or of a verandah.
57. Some MSS. have instead of gharshật, by scraping,' varshật, by rain ;' see also note on Gautama I, 32. 58. Vishnu XXII, 91.
59. Vishnu XXIII, 5. 60. Identical with Manu V, 109, and Vishnu XXII, 92. 61-62. Vishnu XXIII, 7. Krishnapandita points out that these
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