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I KÂNDA, 6 ADHYÂYA, I BRÂHMANA, 20.
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previously to (or, in the fore-part of) the (chief) sacrifice, let him be thus spoken to, 'Thou shalt suffer some disease of the face! thou shalt become either blind or deafl' for these, in truth, are diseases of the face: and thus it would indeed fare with him.
17. If any one were to imprecate evil on him in the middle of the sacrifice, let him be thus spoken to, 'Thou shalt be without offspring, without cattle!' for offspring and cattle, indeed, constitute the centre (i.e. the substantial possession of man): and thus it would indeed fare with him.
18. If any one were to imprecate evil on him after the completion of the (chief) sacrifice, let him be thus spoken to, ‘Unstable and poor, thou shalt swiftly go to yonder world !' for thus it would indeed fare with him. One should not therefore utter imprecations : for whosoever thus understands this has the advantage.
19. He who gains by means of the fore-offerings, assuredly, gains the year? But he alone gains it who knows its doors; for what were he to do with a house who cannot find his way inside ? Even as those (fore-offerings) are (the doors) of this (sacrifice), so is the spring a door, and so is the winter a door, of that (year). This same year he enters, as the world of heaven; for, assuredly, the year is all, and the All (universe) is imperishable: his thereby becomes imperishable merit, the imperishable world.
The Two BUTTER-PORTIONS (ÂGYABHÂGA) TO AGNI and Soma.
20. Here now some say, 'To what deity belong the butter-portions?' Let him reply, 'To Pragâpati;'
i See I, 5, 3, 3.
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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 |