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VASISHTHA.
XXX, 1.
senses, remembers or even hears it, will, freed from all sin, be exalted in the highest heaven.'
CHAPTER XXX. 1. Practise righteousness, not unrighteousness; speak truth, not untruth ; look far, not near; look towards the Highest, not towards that which is not the Highest.
2. A Brahmana is a fire.
3. For the Veda (says), 'Agni, forsooth, is a Brâhmana.'
4. And how is that?
5. And it is also declared in the Kathaka, 'On that (occasion) the body of the Brâhmana who represents the sacrificial seat is the altar, the vow to perform the rite is the sacrifice, the soul is the animal to be slain, the intellect the rope (with which the animal is bound), the mouth of the Brâhmana) who represents the seat is the Ahavaniya fire, in his navel (is the Dakshinâ fire), the fire in his abdomen is the Gârhapatya fire, the Prâna is the Adhvaryu priest, the Apâna the Hotri priest, the Vyana the Brahman, the Samâna the Udgâtri priest, the organs of sensation the sacrificial vessels. He who knowing this offers a sacrifice to the organs through the organs.' ...
6. Now they quote also (the following verses) : 'An offering placed in the mouth-fire of a Brâh
XXX. 2. See above, III, 10. 3. Satapatha-brâhmana I, 4, 22.
5. Krishnapandita divides the passage into thirteen Satras, and connects tatra, 'on that occasion,' with the preceding Sätra. On that (occasion),' i.e. if a Brâhmana is fed.
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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 |