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(thereby) with the (next) night, and Varuna will not seize him.
20. In like manner he becomes free from the sin committed during the night by worshipping in the morning.
21. He is also connected with the next) day, Mitra protects him and Åditya leads him up to heaven,
22. It is declared in the Veda, 'A Brâhmana who in this same manner daily worships in the twilight, both at morn and at eve and, being sanctified by the Brahman, becoming one with the Brahman, and resplendent through the Brahman, follows the rules of the Sâstra, gains the heaven of Brahman.'
PRASNA II, ADHYAYA 5, KANDIKÂ 8. I. Now, after washing his hands, he shall take his waterpot and a clod of earth, go to a (sacred) bathing-place and thrice clean his feet (with earth and water) and thrice his body.
2. Now some say, 'One must not enter a burialground, water, a temple, a cowpen, nor a place where Brâhmanas (sit) without having cleaned one's fee.'
20. Vasishtha XXVI, 3.
22. Brahman means here the Veda, the Savitri, and the universal soul..
8. 1. Vishnu LXIV, 18. This Adhyâya contains the rules for bathing, and the subject is introduced, as Govinda observes, because in the preceding chapter II, 4, 7, 2, it has been said that an impure person must bathe before he performs the twilight devotions. Govinda also states that the word ka,and,' which stands after mritpindam, 'a clod,' indicates that gomaya,'cowdung,' must also be employed.
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