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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6. (It may also be performed) in the ninth or fifth (years) for the fulfilment of (some particular) wish.
7. The number of years (is to be calculated) from conception.
8. That (initiation) is the second birth.
9. The (person) from whom he receives that (sacrament is called) the Âkârya (teacher).
10. And (the same title is also bestowed) in consequence of the teaching of the Veda.
II. (The initiation) of a Kshatriya (shall ordinarily take place) in the eleventh (year after conception), and that of a Vaisya in the twelfth.
GAUTAMA.
12. Up to the sixteenth year the time for the Sâvitri of a Brahmana has not passed,
13. Nor (for the initiation) of a Kshatriya up to the twentieth (year).
14. (And the limit for that) of a Vaisya (extends) two years beyond (the latter term).
15. The girdles (worn by students) shall be strings of Munga grass, a bow-string, or a (wool) thread, according to the order (of the castes).
16. (Their upper garments shall be) skins of black-bucks, spotted deer, (or) he-goats.
6. Âpastamba I, I, I, 20–21. 7. Apastamba I, 1, 1, 19.
8. Âpastamba I, 1, 1, 17-18. 9. Âpastamba I, 1, 1, 14. 10. Manu II, 140; Yagnavalkya I, 34.
II. Apastamba I, I, I, 19. 12. Âpastamba I, 1, 1, 27. Sâvitrî, literally the Rik sacred to Savitri, is here used as an equivalent for upanayana, initiation, because one of the chief objects of the ceremony is to impart to the neophyte the Mantra sacred to Savitri, Rig-veda III, 62, 10. 13-14. Apastamba I, 1, 1, 27. 15. Apastamba I, 1, 2, 33-36.
16. Âpastamba I, 1, 3, 3-6.
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