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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IX, 26.
THE DUTIES OF A SNÂTAKA.
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17. If he has conversed (with such persons), he shall meditate on virtuous (men);
18. Or he may speak with a Brâhmana.
19. He shall call (a cow that is) not a milch-cow, a cow that will become a milch-cow.
20. (An event) that is not lucky (he shall call) lucky.
21. (In speaking of) a skull (he shall use the word) bhagala instead of kapåla,
22. (And in speaking of) a rainbow, manidhanus (the jewelled bow) instead of indradhanus (Indra's bow).
23. Let him not announce it to others, if a cow suckles (her calf),
24. Nor let him prevent her (from doing it).
25. After conjugal intercourse he shall at once clean himself.
26. Let him not recite the daily portion of the Veda (lying) on that couch (on which he lies with his wife).
properly so called, is forbidden, not to ask barbarians &c. about the road and similar matters.
18. Compare the analogous case, mentioned Âpastamba I, 3, 9, 13.
19. Apastamba I, 11, 31, 11. 22. Apastamba I, 11, 31, 16.
23. Apastamba I, 11, 31, 10. Haradatta remarks that the prohibition does not extend to those cases where the Vedic ritual requires the fact to be pointed out. He is, of course, right in making this statement, as an express injunction of the Sruti always overrides the rules of the Smriti.
24. Haradatta adds that this and the preceding Satras include by implication the cases where a cow does damage in a field; see Apastamba I, 11, 31, 9.
amba II, I, I, 21-II, 1, 2, 1. 26. Apastamba I, 11, 32, 3.
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