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SOTRAS CLVI-CLIX.
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When it is said that the Darsa-pûrnamâsa should be performed during life, this is not meant as determining the time of the sacrifice. It only means that so long as there is life a man should perform these sacrifices, and that their non-performance would constitute a sin. The former argument, therefore, that the time of the Vikriti sacrifices would fall within the time of the Prakriti sacrifice is not tenable.
SUTRA CLVIII.
And again, because there is difference in the undertaking.
Commentary.
Årambha, the beginning, is explained as the determination to perform a certain sacrifice (darsapûrnamâsâbhyâm yakshya iti niskayapurahsarah sankalpah). The object of the undertaking in the case of the Darsa-pûrnamâsa sacrifice, as the Prakriti, is simply svarga, in the Vikritis it may be any kind of desire. Therefore the Anvârambhanîya ceremony of the Darsa-pûrnamâsas should be transferred to its Vikritis. This seems to have been the opinion of the same authorities who are referred to in Sûtra CLVII. The final outcome of the whole controversy, however, is clearly that our Akarya is in favour of omitting the Anvârambhaniya in the Vikritis. Anayok pakshayor anvârambhanîyabhavapakshasyaiva balavattvam âkâryâbhilashitam iti manyâmahe. The Anvârambhanîyâ is not to be considered as an ordinary Anga, but as a special act to fit the sacrificer to perform the Darsa-pûrnamâsa and to perform it through the whole of his life.
SUTRA CLIX.
For every object (new sacrifice) let him bring forward the fire (let him perform the Agnipranayana, the fetching of the Ahavaniya from the Gârhapatya fire). When the sacrifice is finished
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| SR No. | 007685 |
| Book Title | Grihya Sutras |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1886 |
| Total Pages | 2642 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 49 MB |