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BAUDHẤYANA.
1, 2, 4.
2. As fire consumes dry grass, even so the Veda, asked for, (but) not honoured, (destroys the enquirer). Therefore let him not proclaim the Veda to those who do not show him honour according to their ability.
3. They proclaim to him a command to the following effect;
4. Brahman, forsooth, made the created beings over to Death. The student alone it did not make over to him.' He (Death) spake, 'Let me have a share in him.' (Brahman answered), “That night in which he may neglect to offer a piece of sacred fuel (shall belong to thee).'
5. “Therefore a student who passes a night without offering a piece of sacred fuel, cuts it off from the length of his life. Therefore let the student offer a piece of sacred fuel, lest he spend a night, shortening his life.'
6. A long sacrificial session begins he who commences his studentship. That (night) in which, after being initiated, he (first) offers a piece of sacred fuel corresponds to the Prâyaniya (Âtirâtra of a sacrificial session); that night in which (he offers it last), intending to take the final bath, corresponds to the Udayaniya (Atirâtra). Those nights which (lie) between (these two terms correspond) just to the nights of his sacrificial session.'
2. Vasishtha II, 12.
3. "They, i.e. the Vâgasaneyins; to him, i. e. to the student.' - Govinda.
4. The quotation, which begins here and ends with the end of the section, is taken from Satapatha-brâhmana XI, 2, 6. In the text the word Brahman is a neuter.
6. MSS. M. and K., as well as the commentary, read dirghasat
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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 |