Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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women who marry again in case of the five calamities; those who talk of children begotten by other men on their own wives in the absence of children; 128 of women who, though guilty, talk of purification through the menses; of those who live by eating the organs of goats killed in the Soma sacrifice 124 with the idea of prosperity; of those who drink wine in the Sautrāmaṇī sacrifice; 125 of those who eat filth 126 and think themselves purified by touching cows; of those who cleanse themselves from evil merely by bathing in water, et cetera; of those who worship the banyan, the pippal, the myrobalan, et cetera; 127 of those who think the gods are pleased by an oblation burned in fire; of those who think a plague is allayed by milking cows on the earth; of those who teach dharma by vows consisting of imitation of women; of those who wear matted hair, sandal
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122 336. These occur frequently in the Dharmaśāstras: Naşte mṛte pravrajite klibe ca patite patau | Pañcasvapatsu nārīņām patiranyo vidhiyate ||
"When the husband disappears from home, dies, adopts a monastic life, is impotent, or becomes an outcaste, it is prescribed that in these five calamities women may have another husband." Agnipurāņa 154. 5-6; Tri. 9. 2. 34.
128 337. Kṣetraja. One of the twelve kinds of permissible sons. See the Vasishtha Dharmashâstra, Chap. XVII, SBE XIV. 124 338. Adhvara, the Soma sacrifice. Kandas III and IV, SBE XXVI.
See Satapathabrāhmaṇa,
125 338. A sacrifice in honor of Indra.
See Satapathabrāhmaṇa,
Kāṇḍa V. 5. 4 f. and XII. 7 ff., SBE XLI and XLIV. It is both an işti and animal sacrifice. (An işți is the offering of milk, butter, grain, etc., as distinguished from animal and Soma sacrifices.) Spirituous liquor is drunk.
126 339. Probably an allusion to the Aghorapathins, or Aghoras, as Balfour calls them, of whom he says: 'a depraved sect of Hindus, their food being ordure, carrion and, it is said, human flesh. Balfour, I, p. 42. 127 340. All well-known sacred trees which are still worshipped. 128 341. Probably the Sakhibhāva sect: "a sect of Vaishnava Hindus in Northern India, who adopt Krishna and his mistress Radha for their special worship. They assume the female garb, and the dress,