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man who offers water for sipping to others, no defilement is caused by them. They are equally (pure) as (water) collected on the ground.'
PRASNA I, Adhyâya 5, KANDIKÂ 11.
1. Referring to deaths and births, they declare that the impurity of Sapindas lasts ten days; excepting officiating priests, men who have performed the initiatory ceremony of a Soma-sacrifice, and students of the Veda. . 2. But amongst Sapindas Sapinda-relationship (extends) to the seventh person.
3. (If children die) before the completion of the seventh month or before teething, (the relatives) shall bathe.
4. In the case of a child) that dies before the completion of its third year or before teething, offerings of funeral cakes and water are not prescribed, and one should not burn its (body);
5. Nor when unmarried maidens die. 6. Some do it in the case of married daughters. 7. That (is done) in order to gain the good-will
11. 1. Vasishtha IV, 16. Officiating priests, Soma-sacrificers, and students do not become impure by deaths or births occurring among their relatives; see Vasishtha XIX, 48; Gautama XIV, 1.
2. Vasishtha IV, 17. For the specification of the extent of the Sapinda-relationship, see below, Satra 9.
3. Vishnu XXII, 27. 4. Vishnu XXII, 28; Gautama XIV, 34, 43.
6. Gautama XIV, 36. "That refers to the Sapindas on the father's side.'-Govinda.
7. Manu IX, 18.
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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 |