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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GAUTAMA.
XVI, 2.
(the full moon of) Bhâdrapada (August-September) and study the Vedic texts,
2. During four months and a half, or during five months, or as long as the sun moves towards the south.
3. Let him remain chaste, let him not shave, nor eat flesh (during that period);
4. Or (this) restrictive rule may (be observed) during two months.
5. He shall not recite the Veda, if the wind whirls up the dust in the day-time,
6. Nor if it is audible at night,
7. Nor if the sound of a Vâna, of a large or a small drum, the noise of a chariot, and the wail of a person in pain (are heard),
8. Nor if the barking of many dogs and jackals, or the braying of many donkeys (is heard),
9. Nor if (the sky appears flaming) red, a rainbow (is seen), or hoar-frost (lies on the ground),
10. Nor if clouds rise out of season.
II. (Let him not study) when he feels the necessity to void urine or excrements,
12. Nor at midnight, in the twilight, and (while standing) in the water,
13. Nor while rain falls.
2. Âpastamba I, 3, 9, 2−3.
3. This Sutra and the following one refer to a teacher or to a householder who again goes through the Veda; see Âpastamba II,
2, 5, 15, 16.
5-6. Apastamba I, 3, 11, 8.
7-8. Âpastamba I, 3, 10, 19. A Vâna is stated to be a kind of lute, or harp, with a hundred strings.
9. Âpastamba I, 3, 11, 25, 31.
10. Apastamba I, 3, 11, 31.
12. Âpastamba I, 3, 11, 15, 17; Manu IV, 109.
13. Manu IV, 103.
II. Manu IV, 109.
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