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, 160.
HOUSEHOLDER ; SRÂDDHAS.
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contracted an alliance with outcasts either through the Veda or through a marriage,
158. An incendiary, a prisoner, he who eats the food given by the son of an adulteress, a seller of Soma, he who undertakes voyages by sea, a bard, an oil-man, a suborner to perjury,
159. He who wrangles or goes to law with his father, the keeper of a gambling-house, a drunkard, he who is afflicted with a disease (in punishment of former) crimes, he who is accused of a mortal sin, a hypocrite, a seller of substances used for flavouring food,
160. A maker of bows and of arrows, he who lasciviously dallies with a brother's widow, the betrayer of a friend, one who subsists by gambling, he who learns (the Veda) from his son,
158. Agâradâhî, an incendiary, includes according to a verse, quoted by Nand. also, one who burns corpses for money.' Katakârakah, a suborner to perjury' (Gov., Kull.), means according to Medh. and Ragh. 'a false witness,' according to Nar. and Nand. any one who commits fraud,' e. g. a forger, a falsifier of weights and measures. Others' quoted by Medh. explain somavikrayin as 'one who sells (the merit gained by) Soma (sacrifices).'
159. He who wrangles or goes to law with his father,' e. g. who forces him to divide the family estate (Medh.), see Gaut. XV, 19. Kitavah, 'the keeper of a gambling-house' (Medh.), means according to Gov. and Nand. 'one who makes others play for himself,' according to När.'a gambler for pleasure,' and according to Nand.'a rogue.' 'Others,' however, read kekarah, a squinting man,' and construe it with madyapah, a drunkard' (Medh., Gov., Kull., Nár., Nand., Râgh.). Rasa, substances used for flavouring food, e.g. sugar-cane juice' (Gov., Kull., Râgh.), 'molasses' (Nár.). Medh. explains rasadah by vishadah, a poisoner.'
160. I accept Gov.'s and Râgh.'s explanation of agredidhishdpati, who believe it to be equivalent to didhishởpati explained below, verse 173. Kull. and Nand. take it as 'the husband of a younger sister married before the elder,' and Medh. as an
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