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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LAWS OF MANU.
TV, 146.
146. No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter (sacred texts) and offer burntoblations.
147. Let him, without tiring, daily mutter the Veda at the proper time; for they declare that to be one's highest duty; (all) other (observances) are called secondary duties.
148. By daily reciting the Veda, by (the observance of the rules of) purification, by (practising) austerities, and by doing no injury to created beings, one (obtains the faculty of) remembering former births.
149. He who, recollecting his former existences, again recites the Veda, gains endless bliss by the continual study of the Veda.
150. Let him always offer on the Parva-days oblations to Savitri and such as avert evil omens, and on the Ashtakâs and Anvashtakâs let him constantly worship the manes.
151. Far from his dwelling let him remove urine (and ordure), far (let him remove) the water used for washing his feet, and far the remnants of food and the water from his bath.
152. Early in the morning only let him void
146. Vas. XXVI, 14.
147. Gaut. IX, 72. 150. Vi. LXXI, 86. Nand. reads savitrya, with the Såvitri,' for sâvitrân,'to Savitri,' and Nâr. has the same explanation.
151. Ap. I, 31, 2-3; Gaut. IX, 39; Yâgñ. I, 153. Âvasatha, his dwelling,' means according to Kull..the room where the fires are kept. Kull. explains nishekam, 'the water from his bath,' by
seminal impurity Gov. and När. read ukkhishtânnanishekam ka, and explain nisheka by tyaga, 'throwing away.
152. According to Medb., 'others' explained maitram, 'defecation, by 'friendly service,' or by the worship of Mitra.'
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