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SÂNKHAYANA-GRIHYA-SOTRA.
3. If that is impossible, with their faces to all directions.
4. Let them expect the rising of the sun, 5. And when they behold it in its splendour,
6. Let them with (the words), 'Recite, sir !' seize with their hands, holding the right hand uppermost, the feet of the teacher, which have been washed, with the right (hand) the right (foot), with the left the left,
7. And having then put (the hands) into the vessel used for the expiation, into water in which pieces of Dûrva stalks are, let them begin their study, when their hands have ceased to drip.
8. This is the rite. But when they are tired, let one of them bring it about that the vessel used for the expiation be not empty.
9. And all (should do so) at the beginning and the end of (each) Adhyâya.
10. (All) that is done continuously, without interruption.
11. Now the expiation.
12. The syllable OM, the Mahâvyâhritis, the Sâvitri, the Rathantara, the Brihat, the Vâmadevya; Brihat and Rathantara with repetition and Kakubhforming.
6. Comp. above, II, 5, 10, &c.
7. The translation of a pinvamânaih pânibhih is conjectural Narayana's explanation of a pinvamâna by asamsrishta is inadmissible.
10. Nârâyana explains this Sûtra in the following way. If it is impossible, for any reason, to recite the whole text, only the beginning and the concluding words of each Adhyâya (see Sätra 9) are to be repeated; and these should be recited without interruption so as to form one continual text.
12. Comp. above, III, 4, 5.
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