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I, 5, 9.
PURIFICATION.
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5. On touching a tree standing on a sacred spot, a funeral pile, a sacrificial post, a Kandala or a person who sells the Veda, a Brahmana shall bathe dressed in his clothes.
6. One's own couch, seat, clothes, wife, child, and waterpot are pure for oneself; but for strangers they are impure.
7. A seat, a couch, a vehicle, ships (and boats), the road and grass are purified by the wind, if they have been touched by Kandalas or outcasts.
8. Grain on the threshing-floor, water in wells and reservoirs, and milk in the cowpen are fit for use even (if they come) from a person whose food must not be eaten.
9. The gods created for Brâhmanas three means of purification, (viz.) ignorance of defilement, sprinkling with water, and commending by word of mouth.
10. Water collected on the ground with which
5. Vasishtha IV, 37. Kaityavriksha, a tree standing on sacred ground,' means literally, 'a memorial-tree.'
7. Govinda points out that couches and seats and the like, on which Kandalas and outcasts have lain or sat down, must be purified.
8. That must be referred to grain on a threshing-floor, and so forth, which has been produced by men whose food must not be eaten, and again is considered to be common to all. In this case, too, what has been received from outcasts and Kandầlas, that is defiled. Milk which has been received just at milking-time may be drunk out of a vessel that stands in the cowpen.'-Govinda. As regards the grain produced by low-caste people, the rule probably refers to cases where the land of an Agrahara or other village is cultivated by men of the lowest castes. The author means to say that in such cases a Brâhmana may take his share from the threshing-floor, where the whole produce of the villageland is stored, without hesitation.
9. Vasishtha XIV, 24; Manu V, 127. 10. Vasishtha III, 35-36.
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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 |