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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III, 5.
HOUSEHOLDER; MARRIAGE.
half that time, or for a quarter, or until the (student) has perfectly learnt them.
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2. (A student) who has studied in due order the three Vedas, or two, or even one only, without breaking the (rules of) studentship, shall enter the order of householders.
3. He who is famous for (the strict performance of) his duties and has received his heritage, the Veda, from his father, shall be honoured, sitting on a couch and adorned with a garland, with (the present of) a cow (and the honey-mixture).
4. Having bathed, with the permission of his teacher, and performed according to the rule the Samâvartana (the rite on returning home), a twiceborn man shall marry a wife of equal caste who is endowed with auspicious (bodily) marks.
5. A (damsel) who is neither a Sapindâ on the mother's side, nor belongs to the same family on
the term of studentship extends over forty-eight years, and that rule includes the Atharva-veda.
2. Yâgñ. I, 52.
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3. The meaning is, that the student who, after completing his term, has become a Snâtaka, shall receive first, i.e. before his marriage, the honour of the Madhuparka (Âp. II, 8, 5-9) from the person who instructed him. The phrase who has received his heritage, the Veda, from his father,' indicates, according to the commentators, that, as a rule, the father is to teach his son. As, however, the teacher is considered the spiritual father of his pupil, pituh might also be translated 'from his (spiritual) father.'
4. Gaut. IV, 1; Vas. VIII, 1; Yâgñ. I, 52. Regarding the 'auspicious bodily marks,' see Sânkhâyana, Grihya-sûtra I, 5, 10. See also below, vers. 7-10.
5. Âp. II, 11, 15-16; Gaut. IV, 2-5; Vas. VIII, 1-2; Baudh. II, 1, 32-38; Vi. XXIV, 9-10; Yâgn. I, 53.
Asagotrâ ka yâ pituh, 'who does not belong to the same family on the father's side,' means according to Medh. and Kull. 'between whose father's and the bridegroom's family no blood-relationship is
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