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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IV, 10.
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10. He who maintains himself by picking up grains and ears of corn, must be always intent on (the performance of) the Agnihotra, and constantly offer those Ishtis only, which are prescribed for the days of the conjunction and opposition (of the moon), and for the solstices.
LAWS OF MANU.
II. Let him never, for the sake of subsistence, follow the ways of the world; let him live the pure, straightforward, honest life of a Brahmana.
12. He who desires happiness must strive after a perfectly contented disposition and control himself; for happiness has contentment for its root, the root of unhappiness is the contrary (disposition).
13. A Brahmana, who is a Snâtaka and subsists by one of the (above-mentioned) modes of life, must
given unasked, begging, agriculture, trade, and teaching' (Medh.), or those mentioned in verses 5-6' (Gov.), or 'those mentioned in verses 5-6, excepting service and with the addition of moneylending' (Kull., Râgh.), or 'those enumerated in verses 5-6, and those six, mentioned above, I, 88' (Nâr.), or those mentioned above, I, 88' (Nand.). 'Subsists by three,' i. e. ' by the first three, mentioned in verses 5-6' (Medh.), or by teaching, sacrificing, and accepting gifts' (Gov., Kull., Râgh., Nand.), or 'by teaching, sacrificing and accepting gifts, and by the first three, mentioned in verses 5-6' (Nâr.). One by two,' i. e. 'by gleaning and accepting voluntary gifts' (Medh.), or 'by sacrificing and teaching' (Gov., Kull., Râgh., Nand.), or 'by gleaning ears and single grains' (Nâr.). 'The Brahmasattra,' i. e. 'gleaning either ears or single grains' (Nâr.), or 'teaching' (Gov., Kull., Râgh., Nand.). Elsewhere the term Brahmasattra is applied to the daily recitation of the Veda, and it probably means here 'teaching.'
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10. The Agnihotra, i.e. the daily morning and evening oblations in the sacred fire or fires. The sacrifices intended are the Darsa
paurnamâsas and the Âgrayanas.
11. Yâgn. I, 123.
12-17. Yâgn. I, 129.
13. Nand. places verse 15 immediately after verse 12. Regarding the term Snâtaka, see below, verse 31, Ap. I, 30, 1-3.
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