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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X, 64.
51. For him also (are prescribed) truthfulness, meekness, and purity.
52. Some (declare), that instead of sipping water, he shall wash his hands and feet.
LAWFUL OCCUPATIONS AND LIVELIHOOD.
53. (He shall also offer) the funeral oblations, 54. Maintain those depending upon him,
55. Live with his wife (only),
56. And serve the higher (castes).
57. From them he shall seek to obtain his livelihood.
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58. (He shall use their) cast-off shoes, umbrellas, garments, and mats (for sitting on),
59. (And) eat the remnants of their food; 60. And (he may) live by (practising) mechanical
arts;
61. And the Arya under whose protection he places himself, must support him even if he (becomes) unable to work.
62. And a man of higher caste (who is his master and has fallen into distress must be maintained) by him.
63. His hoard shall serve this purpose.
64. If permission has been given to him, he
that given above, VIII, 14; and thirdly, because, according to the practice of Gautama, this Sutra should begin with 'tasyâpi' instead of with Sûdrasyâpi,' and the 'tasyâpi' in the next would become superfluous. The rule agrees however with Manu X, 63, 127.
51. Manu IX, 335.
53. Manu X, 127-128.
55. Another commentator explains the Sûtra to mean that he shall live with his wife only, and never enter another order (i.e. never become a student, hermit, or ascetic).'-Haradatta.
56. Âpastamba, I, 1, 1, 7-8; Manu X, 121-123.
57. Manu X, 124.
60. Manu X, 99.
58-59. Manu X, 125.
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