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XX, 17.
the (outcast sinner) shall stand, during one night, reciting the Sâvitri.
9. If he intentionally (converses with the outcast, he must perform the same penance) for three nights.
10. But if an (outcast sinner) is purified by (performing) a penance, (his kinsmen) shall, after he has become pure, fill a golden vessel (with water) from a very holy lake or a river, and make him bathe in water (taken) from that (vessel).
11. Then they shall give him that vessel and he, after taking it, shall mutter (the following Mantras): 'Cleansed is the sky, cleansed is the earth, cleansed and auspicious is the middle sphere; I here take that which is brilliant.'
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12. Let him offer clarified butter, (reciting) these Yagus formulas, the Pâvamânîş, the Taratsamandis, and the Kushmandas.
13. Let him present gold or a cow to a Brâh
mana,
14. And to his teacher.
15. But he, whose penance lasts for his (whole) lifetime, will be purified after death.
16. Let (his kinsmen) perform for him all the funeral rites, the first of which is the libation of
water.
17. This same (ceremony of bathing in) water
10. Manu XI, 187-188; Yâgñavalkya III, 296.
II. As appears from Gobhila Grihya-sûtra III, 4, 16, the noun to be understood is apâm angalih, 'a handful of water.'
12. Haradatta refers the term Pâvamânîs here to Taittirîyabrâhmana I, 4, 8. The Taratsamandîs are found Rig-veda IX, 58. 17. "Water (consecrated) for the sake of purification" means
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| SR No. | 007687 |
| Book Title | Sacred Laws of Aryas |
| 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 |