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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II, 10, 18.
RULES FOR AN ASCETIC.
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mainder with water, he shall eat it as if it were a medicine.
11. After he has eaten and sipped water, he mutters (the texts), Out of darkness we,' &c., (and), 'My speech resides in the mouth,' &c., and worships the sun with the (verse called) Gyotishmati.
12. Let him 'eat food, given without asking, regarding which nothing has been settled beforehand and which has reached him accidentally, so much only as is sufficient to sustain life.
13. Now they quote also (the following verses) : Eight mouthfuls (make) the meal of an ascetic, sixteen (that) of a hermit in the woods, thirty-two (that) of a householder, an unlimited (quantity that) of a student.'
14. 'Alms (may) either (be obtained) from (men of) the three castes, or the food (given) by a single Brâhmana (may be eaten); or (he may obtain food) from (men of) all castes, and not (eat) that given by a single Brâhmana.'
15. Now they quote (the following special rules) for the case that the teachers explain (the doctrine) of the Upanishads : Diligently standing in the day-time), keeping silence, sitting (at night) with crossed legs, bathing three times a day, and eating
11. The first text occurs frequently in the Taittirîya-veda, e.g. Taittirîya Samhitâ IV, 1, 7, 4; the second, Taittirîya Aranyaka X, 72. The Gyotishmatî is, according to Govinda, the first of the two Mantras quoted.
12. According to Govinda this verse gives the opinion of some' teachers, not the author's. Asamkliptam, 'regarding which nothing has been settled beforehand,' indicates, according to Govinda, that the ascetic must not even mentally determine what he is going to eat.
13. See above, II, 7, 13, 7.
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