Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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II, 42.
SACRAMENTS; INITIATION.
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Brâhmana does not pass until the completion of the sixteenth year (after conception), of a Kshatriya until the completion of the twenty-second, and of a Vaisya until the completion of the twenty-fourth.
39. After those (periods men of) these three (castes) who have not received the sacrament at the proper time, become Vrâtyas (outcasts), excluded from the Savitri (initiation) and despised by the Aryans.
40. With such men, if they have not been purified according to the rule, let no Brâhmana ever, even in times of distress, form a connexion either through the Veda or by marriage.
41. Let students, according to the order (of their castes), wear (as upper dresses) the skins of black antelopes, spotted deer, and he-goats, and (lower garments) made of hemp, flax or wool.
42. The girdle of a Brâhmana shall consist of a triple cord of Muñga grass, smooth and soft; (that) of a Kshatriya, of a bowstring, made of Marvâ fibres ; (that) of a Vaisya, of hempen threads.
Baudh. I, 16,16; Vi., loc. cit., and LIV, 26; Yâgñ. I, 37-38. Some' take the preposition â, until,' in the sense of until the beginning of,' Kull.
40. 'Connexion through the Veda,' i.e. teaching them or studying under them, sacrificing for them, or electing them to be priests, accepting religious gifts from them or giving them. Râgh. omits verse 40.
41. Ap. I, 2, 39-3, 9; Gaut. I, 16, 21; Vas. XI, 61-67; Baudh. 1, 3, 14; Vi. XXVII, 19-20. Râgh. explains ruru,' a spotted deer,' by a tiger.'
42. Ap. I, 2, 33-37; Gaut. I, 15; Vas. XI, 58-60; Baudh. I, 3, 13; Vi. XXVII, 18; Yâgñ. I, 29. Medh. and Gov. think that the girdle of a Kshatriya is not to consist of three separate strings twisted together, and Kull. apparently holds the same opinion. Rågh. and Når. say that every bowstring naturally consists of three strings.
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