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II, 1, 1.
PENANCES.
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21. The mental recitation of the Veda must also be interrupted on births and deaths occurring in the family).
22. Now they quote also (the following verse): "The eighth day destroys the teacher, the fourteenth destroys the pupil, the fifteenth destroys learning ; therefore let him avoid (studying the Veda) on the Parva-days.'
PRASNA II, ADHVẬYA 1, KANDIKÂ 1. 1. Now, therefore, the penances (will be described).
2. The murderer of a learned Brâhmana (shall practise the following vow) during twelve years :
3. Carrying a skull (instead of a dish) and the foot of a bedstead (instead of a staff), dressed in the hide of an ass, staying in the forest, making a dead man's skull his flag, he shall cause a hut to be built in a burial-ground and reside there; going to seven houses in order to beg food, while proclaiming his deed, he shall support life with what (he gets there), and shall fast if he obtains nothing ;
4. Or he may offer a horse-sacrifice, a Gosava, or an Agnishtut;
22. Vishnu XXX, 29-30. In accordance with the practice usual in Vedic works the best MSS. of the text repeat the beginning of each Kandikâ at the end of the Prasna, giving the last first.
1. 2-3. Gautama XXII, 4-6; Vishnu L, 1-3, 15. The expression staying in the forest' means that the sinner shall not stop in the village or the fields during the day-time, but live in some uncultivated tract in the neighbourhood.
4. Gautama XIX, 9-10. The Gosava sacrifice is an Ekâha; see Kâtyâyana Srauta Sätra XXII, 11, 3.
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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 |