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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1, 5, 8.
PURIFICATION.
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42. Cotton cloth with earth,
43. Skins (other than deer-skins shall be treated) like cotton cloth,
44. Stones and gems like (objects) made of metal, 45. Bones like wood,
46. Conch-shells, horn, pearl-shells, and ivory like linen cloth.
47. Or (they may be cleaned) with milk.
48. (Objects) which have been defiled by urine, ordure, blood, semen, or a dead body, (but) are agreeable to the eye and the nose, shall be rubbed seven times with one of the substances mentioned above.
49. (Objects) not made of metal which are in the same condition must be thrown away.
50. The cups and vessels (used) at a sacrifice (must be cleaned) according to the injunction (of the Veda).
51. The Veda (declares), 'They do not become impure through Soma.'
52. 'Time, fire, purity of mind, water and the like (fluids), smearing with cowdung and ignorance (of defilement) are declared to be the sixfold (means of) purification for created beings:
53. Now they quote also (the following verse):
42. Vasishtha III, 49.
43. Vasishtha III, 53. 44. Vasishtha III, 50.
45. Vasishtha III, 52. 46. Vasishtha III, 51.
49. Vasishtha III, 59. 50. Govinda explains this Sūtra differently. He says: The fault of defilement by remnants does not affect sacrificial cups and vessels. This must be understood. If they are defiled by urine and the like, they must be thrown away.' My explanation is based on the parallel passage of Âpastamba 1, 5, 17, 13. See also below, I, 6, 13, 11 seq.
52. Vishnu XXII, 88.
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