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BAUDHẦYANA.
II, 5, 8.
3. Then he enters the water, (reciting the following verse): 'I take refuge with gold-horned Varuna, give me at my request (O Varuna) a purifying bathingplace. May Indra, Varuna, Brihaspati, and Savitri again and again cleanse me from all sin which I have committed by eating the food of unholy men, by receiving gifts from the wicked, and from all evil which I have done by thoughts, speeches, or deeds.'
4. Then he takes up water in his joined hands, (saying), ‘May the waters and the herbs be propitious to us.
5. (Next) he pours (the water) out in that direction in which an enemy of his dwells, (saying), May they work woe to him who hates us and whom we hate.'
6. Then he sips water, and thrice makes the water eddy around himself turning from the left to the right (and saying), ‘May that which is hurtful, which is impure, and which is inauspicious in the water be removed.'
7. After having submerged himself and having emerged from the water,
8. (Acts of) personal purification, washing the clothes by beating them on a stone and sipping
3. The verse is found Taittirîya Aranyaka X, 1, 12. 4. Taittirîya Aranyaka X, 1, II.
5. Taittirîya Aranyaka, loc. cit. This and the following Sätras, down to II, 6, 11, 15, are wanting in the Gugarât and Dekhan MSS. except in K.
6. Taittiriya Aranyaka X. 1, 13.
7. Govinda points out that the completion of this Sūtra is to be found in Sätra ro. He adds that Baudhayana inserted Sûtras 8-9 in the middle, because he was afraid to forget the rules contained in them.
8. Vishnu LXIV, 10, II.
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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 |