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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BAUDHAYANA.
IV, 5.
7. (If one eats on) one (day in) the morning (only), and (on the following day) at night (only, on the next day food) given without asking, (and on the fourth day) subsists on air, and repeats this three times, that is called the Krikkhra (penance) of children.
8. (If) one eats one mouthful only at each (meal), following, during (three) periods of three days, the rules given above, and subsists during another period of three days on air, that is called the Atikrikkhra penance.
9. (If) during those (first) three periods of three days one partakes of water only, and subsists afterwards (during three days) on air, that third (variety) must be known to be the most efficacious Krikkhràtikrikkhra penance.
10. If one drinks hot milk, (hot) clarified butter, (and a hot) decoction of Kusa grass, each during three days, and fasts during another three days, that is called the Taptakrikkhra.
11. (If one lives during one day) on cow's urine, (during one day) on cowdung, (during one day) on milk, (during one day) on sour milk, (during one day) on clarified butter, (during one day) on a decoction of Kusa grass, and during one (day and) night on air, that is called the Samtâpana Krikkhra.
12. Let him take the cow's urine, reciting the Gâyatri; the cowdung, (reciting the text), Gandha
7. Vasishtha XXIII, 43; see above, II, 1, 2, 39. 8. Vasishtha XXIV, 2-3; see above, II, 1, 2, 40. 9. See above, II, 1, 2, 41. 10. See above, II, 1, 2, 37. 11. Vasishtha XXVII, 13; Vishnu XLVI, 19.
12. The texts quoted are found, Taitt. Aranyaka X, 1, 10; III, 17; Taitt. Samhitâ I, 5, 11, 4, 7; 1, 1, 10, 3; VII, 1, 11, 1.
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