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PÂRASKARA-GRIHYA-SUTRA.
if clouds appear, ...., (it shall be interrupted) through a period of three nights or till twilight has thrice passed.
4. After he has eaten, until he has (washed and) dried his hands; while being in water; at nighttime; at the time of the morning and evening twilight; while a dead body or a Kandala is in the village.
5. While running, while seeing a person of bad fame or who has lost his caste, if a miraculous or happy event happens, as long as (that which occasions the interruption of study) endures.
6. If hoar-frost (lies on the ground), if a musical instrument is heard, or the cry of a person in pain, at the border of the village, in a burial ground, or if a dog, an ass, an owl, a jackal, or a Sâman song is heard, or if a learned person approaches, as long as (that occasion) endures.
7. If his Guru has died, let him go down into water (for offering water-oblations) and interrupt (the study) for ten nights.
8. If one who has performed with him the Tânůnaptra ceremony, or a fellow-pupil (has died), for three nights.
9. If one who is not his fellow-pupil, (has died,) for one night.
sarvarûpa is identical with the doubtful word savarupa which twice occurs in the Sânkhâyana-Grihya. See the discussion on that word in the note on Sânkhâyana II, 12, 10.
4. On antardivâkîrtye, comp. Manu V, 85. Gautama XVI, 19.
8. The Tanûnaptra is an invocation directed to Tanûnaptri (i.e. the wind) by which the officiating priests and the Yagamâna at a Soma sacrifice pledge their faith to do no harm to each other. See Indische Studien, X, 362.
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