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BAUDHAYANA.
JV, 5.
19. If, self-restrained, he daily eats, during a month, at midday eight mouthfuls of food, fit for a sacrifice, he will perform the Kândrayana of ascetics.
20. But a Brahmana who eats anyhow, during a month, thrice eighty mouthfuls of food, fit for a sacrifice, goes to the world of the moon.
21. As the rising moon frees the world from the fear of darkness, even so a Brâhmana who performs a Kândrayana removes the fear of sin.
22. He who lives one day on (rice)-grains, three days on oil-cakes, five days on buttermilk mixed with water, seven days on water, and (one day) on air, (performs) the guilt-destroying Tulâpurusha.
23. Living on barley-gruel (yâvaka) removes the guilt of corporeal beings after seven days, and so does a fast of seven days; that has been recognised by wise men.
24. By dressing in wet clothes, by living in the open air, and by exposing himself to the sun during the light halves of the months Pausha (DecemberJanuary), Bhadrapada (August-September), and Gyeshtha (May-June), a Brâhmana is freed from (all) sin excepting crimes causing loss of caste (pataniya).
25. (If one swallows) cows' urine, cowdung, milk,
19. Vishnu XLVII, 7. 20. Vishnu XLVII, 9. Govinda places this verse before Sätra 19. 22. Vishnu XLVII, 22.
24. The meaning is that the performer is to stand in wet clothes during the first half of the month Pausha, in the cold season ; to live in the open air during the first half of Bhadrapada, in the rainy season; and to allow himself to be broiled by the sun in Gyeshtha, the hottest time of the hot season.
25. I doubt if the reading of Govinda, yavâkâmena (explained
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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 |