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ÂPASTAMBA.
1, 3, II.
Prasna I, PATALA 3, Khanda 11. 1. (The recitation of the Veda shall be interrupted for a day and evening if he has eaten), on beginning a fresh Kanda (of his Veda), food given by a motherless person,
2. And also if he has eaten, on the day of the completion of a Kânda, food given by a fatherless person,
3. Some declare, that (the recitation shall be interrupted for the same space of time), if he has eaten at a sacrifice offered in honour of gods who were formerly men..
4. Nor is the recitation interrupted, if he has eaten rice received the day before, or raw meat (though these things may have been offered in honour of the dead),
5. Nor (if he has eaten at a funeral dinner) roots or fruits of herbs and trees.
6. When he performs the ceremony for beginning a Kânda, or when he studies the index of the Anu
11. 1. The Black Yagur-veda, to which Âpastamba belongs, is divided throughout into books called Kândas.
3. Haradatta names as such gods, Nandîsvara and Kubera. Other commentators, however, explain Manushyaprakriti by Manushyamukha, possessing human faces.' A similar rule occurs Gautama XVI, 34, where a Manushyaya gña is mentioned as a cause for discontinuing the recitation of the Veda. In his commentary on Gautama, also, Haradatta is in doubt. He first refers the term to the sacraments like the Sîmantonnayana, and then adds, that some explain it to mean a sacrifice to gods who formerly were men.'
4. This Satra is an exception to I, 3, 10, 28.
6. Haradatta's commentary on this Sûtra is very mea gre, and he leaves the word anuvâkyam unexplained. I am not certain that my explanation is correct. But it is countenanced by the statements of the Grihya-sûtras regarding the order of studying. Weber, Ind. Stud. X, 132.
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