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VI ADHYAYA, I KHANDA, 5.
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ADHYAYA VI, KHANDA 1.
1. Now, after having paid reverence to Brahman, to the Brahmarishi, to (those who descend from) Brahman's womb, to Indra, Pragâ pati, Vasishtha, Vamadeva, Kahola Kaushitaki, Mahâkaushitaki, Suyagña Sânkhayana, Åsvalâyana, Aitareya, Mahaitareya, Kâtyâyana, Sâtyâyana, Sâkalya, Babhru, Bâbhravya, Mandu, Mândavya, and to all the teachers of the past, we will henceforth explain the rules for the Aranyaka as forming the subject of Svâdhyâya (private recitation of a text).
2. The teacher abstains through one day and one night from sexual intercourse and from eating flesh.
3. Raw flesh, a Kandala, a woman that has lately been confined, or that has her courses, seeing blood or persons whose hands have been cut off : (these persons and things he shall know form) impediments for the study.
4. And of the corpse-like (animals ?).
5. Those which enter (their dens ?) with the mouth first (?).
1, I seqq. Comp. the general remarks on this sixth book in the Introduction, p. II.
For the names in the opening invocation, comp. above, IV, 10; on the Vratas and the study of the different Aranyaka sections chiefly treated of in this book, see above, II, 11. 12, and the Introduction,
p. 8.
2. Comp. II, 11, 6.
3-5. Comp. II, 12, 10, and the note of Narayana, p. 160 of the German edition.
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