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IV, 5.
RITES SECURING SUCCESS.
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sour milk, clarified butter, and a decoction of Kusa grass, mixed with barley gruel, that is the most sanctifying Brahmakůrka.
26. He who fasts on the new moon day and eats sesamum grains on the full moon day, will be freed in the course of a year from the sins which he committed in the bright and the dark halves of the month.
27. He who lives on alms obtained from Agnihotrins is purified in one month ; (he who obtains his food) from a Yâyâvara, in ten days; he who receives it from a hermit in the forest, in five days;
28. (He who lives) on food given by a person who has a store sufficient for one day only, will be purified in one day; he who drinks water given by a person subsisting by the Kapota-vritti (pigeonlife), is purified in three (days).
29. If one recites the whole Rig-veda, Yagurveda, and Sama-veda, or thrice reads one of these Vedas and fasts, (that is) a most efficient means of purification.
30. Now if one is in haste to finish, one may live on air during a day, and pass the night standing in water, that is equal (in efficacy) to a Prâgâpatya (Krikkhra).
31. He who at sunrise mutters the Gâyatri one thousand and eight times, is free from all sin, provided he has not slain a learned Brâhmana.
by yavâgân) samyuktam, mixed with barley-gruel,' is correct. All the MSS. of the text have yavânâm ekasamyukto, which I do not understand. Govinda has Brahmakrikkhrah instead of Brahmakůrkah. But see the Petersb. Dict. s. v. brahmakůrka.
28. Regarding the Kapota-vritti, see above, III, 2, 15.
20. Vasishtha XXVII, 17. Govinda adds after kartum, to finish,' the rites connected with the Vedas' (Sutra 1).
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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 |