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DESCRIPTION OF PENANCES.
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mouthful during the dark (half of the month) and increases (it in the same manner) during the bright half, and bathes (daily) at the time of three libations (morning, noon, and evening), that is called a lunar penance (Kândrayana).
218. Let him follow throughout the same rule at the (Kândrayana, called) yavamadhyama (shaped like a barley-corn), (but) let him in that case) begin the lunar penance, (with a) controlled (mind), on the first day of the bright half of the month).
219. He who performs the lunar penance of ascetics, shall eat (during a month) daily at midday eight mouthfuls, controlling himself and consuming sacrificial food (only).
220. If a Brahmana, with concentrated mind, eats (during a month daily) four mouthfuls in a morning and four after sunset, (that is) called the lunar penance of children.
221. He who, concentrating his mind, eats during a month in any way thrice eighty mouthfuls of sacrificial food, dwells (after death) in the world of the moon.
222. The Rudras, likewise the Adityas, the Vasus and the Maruts, together with the great sages, practised this (rite) in order to remove all evil.
223. Burnt oblations, accompanied by the recitation of) the Mahâvyâhritis, must daily be made (by
the so-called pipilikamadhya or ant-shaped one, where the fast or lean days lie in the middle.
218. It will be advisable to read with Medh. and Gov., in the second line, karet instead of karan. Gov. has karan in the first line. Nand. reads the last words quite differently, (niyatas) kändråyanam athaparam.
221. 'In any way,' i. e.' without observing any particular limit as to the number of mouthfuls to be eaten on each day' (Nâr.).
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