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.
XXVII, 1.
CHAPTER XXVII. 1. Now, therefore, the Kândrayana (or lunar penance will be described).
2. The (general) rules prescribed for a Krikkhra (are applicable) to that
3. (The hair must be) shaved, in case it (is performed as) a penance.
4. He shall fast on the day preceding the full moon.
5. And (he shall offer) libations (of water), oblations of clarified butter, consecrate the sacrificial viands, and worship the moon, reciting these (rikas),
Increase' (Rig-veda I, 91, 17), May milk be joined with thee' (Rig-veda I, 91, 18, and) 'Ever new' (Rig-veda X, 85, 19).
6. He shall offer (clarified butter), reciting the four (rikas beginning) Yad devâ devahedanam,
7. And at the end (of the offering of clarified
in all the Vedas,' means, literally, equal to a student who has bathed after completing the study of all the four Vedas.
XXVII. 2. The rules meant particularly are those given XXVI, 6-11.
3. He calls penance vrata.'-Haradatta.
5. The four religious acts, the first of which is the offering of libations, are to be performed with the help of the three sacred texts, the first of which begins "Increase.” As the number (of the acts and of the verses) does not agree, the fire-oblations and the libations of water must be performed severally, each with one text, and the consecration (of the offerings) and the worship (of the moon must be performed with all of them) together.'-Haradatta.
6. He shall offer-as nothing is specified-clarified butter, with the first four rikas of the Anuvâka 'Yad derâ devahedanam.' Counting the three mentioned above (Sūtra 5), altogether seven oblations of clarified butter must be made.'-Haradatta.
7. On completion of the oblations of clarified butter, he
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