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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XXIV, 12.
PENANCES.
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taking of (such food) once only each day, in the morning, and keeping his garments constantly wet, he shall (daily) offer (eight) oblations, (representing) the hair, the nails, the skin, the flesh, the blood, the sinews, the bones, (and) the marrow. The end of each (Mantra) shall be, I offer in the mouth of the Åtman (the Self), in the jaws of Death.'
7. Now another (penance for the murder of a Brâhmana will be described):
8. The rule (as to eating and so forth), which has been declared (above, Sätra 6, must be observed),
9. (And) he shall offer clarified butter, reciting (the sacred text Rig-veda I, 189, 2), 'O fire, do thou ferry over,' the Mahâvyâhritis, and the Kushmândas;
10. Or, for the murder of a Brâhmana, for drinking spirituous liquor, for stealing (gold), and for the violation of a Guru's bed, he may perform that (same vow), tire himself by repeatedly stopping his breath, and recite (the hymn seen by) Aghamarshana. That is equal (in efficacy) to the final bath at a horsesacrifice;
11. Or, repeating the Gayatri a thousand times, he, forsooth, purifies himself;
12. Or, thrice repeating (the hymn of) Aghamarshana while immersed in water, he is freed from all sins.
9. The Mahâvyâhritis are, bhūh, bhuvah, svah. Regarding the Kashmândas, see above, XIX, 12.
10. Manu XI, 260-261; Yâgñavalkya III, 302. The vow intended is that prescribed above, Sätras 6, 8.
pastamba I, 9, 26, 14-I, 9, 27, 1. Haradatta remarks that the performer of the penance shall live on milk and stop his breath, repeatedly stopping his breath.
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