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TV, 8.
RITES SECURING SUCCESS.
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butter, and distributing to them after their dinner cows, land, sesamum, and gold,
10. A Brahmana becomes internally pure, his guilt being consumed like fuel, and fit for the performance of rites which secure the fulfilment of wishes and of rites like the kindling of the sacred fire.
Prasna IV, Adhyâya 8. 1. He who, through excessive greed or carelessness, performs this rite for others, is tainted by sin, and perishes like one who has swallowed poison.
2. A Brâhmana who performs this rite for his teacher, his father, his mother, or for himself is resplendent like the sun. Therefore this rite may be performed for those (persons).
3. Ka (Pragâpati) purified by means of this rite the god with a thousand eyes (Sahasraksha), Fire, Wind, the Sun, Soma, Yama, and other lords of the gods.
4. Whatever there is in these three worlds, famed as possessing a holy name, Brâhmanas and the rest, (all) that was produced by Ka through this rite of sanctification.
5. This sin-destroying secret of Pragâpati was first produced; thereafter thousands of purificatory rites came into existence.
6. He who performs those eight Ganahomas on the (first) day of the year, of a half-year, of a season, or of a fortnight, sanctifies ten ancestors and ten descendants of his line; .
7. And, while still on earth, he is known to the
8. 5. I.e. those mentioned V, 7,5.
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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 |