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VASISHTHA.
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XIII, 27.
27. (Nor) at the extremity of a village, 28. (Nor) after (an attack of) vomiting, 29. (Nor) while voiding urine or fæces.
30. (Let him not recite) the Rig-veda, the Yagurveda, and (the Atharva-veda) while the sound of the Sâman melodies (is audible), nor (the Sâman while the other Vedas are being recited).
31. (Let him not study) before (his food is) digested,
32. (Nor) when a thunderbolt falls, 33. (Nor) when an earthquake happens, 34. Nor when the sun and the moon are eclipsed.
35. When a preternaturally loud sound is heard in the sky, when a mountain falls, (and) when showers of stones, blood or sand (fall from the sky, the Veda must not be read) during the twenty-four hours (immediately succeeding the event).
36. If meteors and lightning appear together, (the interruption shall last) three (days and) nights.
37. A meteor (alone and) a flash of lightning (alone cause an interruption lasting) as long as the sun shines (on that or the next day).
38. (If rain or other celestial phenomena come) out of season, (the Veda must not be read) during the twenty-four hours (immediately succeeding the event).
27. Gautama XVI, 18.
28. Vishnu XXX, 19. 29. Gautama XVI, 11. Krishnapandita improperly divides the Sätra into two. 30. Vishnu XXX, 26.
31. Vishnu XXX, 21. 32–34. Vishnu XXX, 5; Gautama XVI, 22.
35. Gautama XVI, 22; Manu IV, 105, 115. Krishnapandita mentions dig dâha, 'when the sky appears preternaturally red,' as a various reading for dignâda.'
38. Âpastamba I, 3, 11, 29.
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| SR No. | 007674 |
| Book Title | Dhammapada |
| 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 |