Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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ÂPASTAMBA.
I, II, 31.
17. But he may discharge urine on his own shadow.
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18. He shall not void excrements with his shoes on, nor on a ploughed field, nor on a path, nor in water. 19. He shall also avoid to spit into, or to have connection with a woman in water.
20. He shall not void excrements facing the fire, the sun, water, a Brâhmana, cows, or (images of) the gods.
21. He shall avoid to clean his body from excrements with a stone, a clod of earth, or with (boughs of) herbs or trees which he has broken off, whilst they were on the tree and full of sap.
22. If possible, he shall not stretch out his feet towards a fire, water, a Brâhmana, a cow, (images of) the gods, a door, or against the wind.
23. Now they quote also (the following verse):
PRASNA I, PATALA 11, KHANDA 31.
1. He shall eat facing the east, void fæces facing the south, discharge urine facing the north, and wash his feet turned towards the west.
2. He shall void excrements far from his house, having gone towards the south or south-west.
3. But after sunset he must not void excrements outside the village or far from his house.
4. And as long as he is impure he (shall avoid) to pronounce the names of the gods.
18. Manu IV, 45, 46; Yâgñ. I, 137.
19. Manu IV, 56.
20. Manu IV, 48, 52; Yâgñ. I, 134.
22. The prohibition to stretch the feet towards a fire occurs also Manu IV, 53; Yâgñ. I, 137.
31. 2. Manu IV, 151; Yâgñ. I, 16.
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