Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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1, 4, 14. A STUDENT WHO HAS RETURNED HOME. 51
Prasna I, Patala 4, KHANDA 14. 1. (That is to say) the Agnihotra, hospitality, 2. And what else of this kind (is ordained).
3. He whom (a student) asks for instruction, shall certainly not refuse it ;
4. Provided he does not see in him a fault, (which disqualifies. him from being taught).
5. If by chance (through the pupil's stupidity the teaching) is not completed, obedience towards the (teacher is the pupil's only refuge).
6. Towards a mother (grandmother and greatgrandmother) and a father (grandfather and greatgrandfather) the same obedience must be shown as towards a teacher.
7. The feet of all Gurus must be embraced (every day) by a student who has returned home;
8. And also on meeting them, after returning from a journey.
9. The feet of (elder) brothers and sisters must be embraced, according to the order of their seniority.
10. And respect (must) always (be shown to one's elders and betters), according to the injunction
14. 1. The Agnihotra, i.e. certain daily oblations of clarified butter. 3. Manu II, 109-115.
5. Manu II, 218. 6. Manu II, 228, 235.
7. The word Gurus, venerable persons, includes besides the teacher and persons mentioned in the preceding Sätra, an elder brother, a maternal uncle, and all others who are one's betters or elders. See above, I, 2, 6, 29–35.
8. That is to say, whether he himself or "the venerable persons" undertook the journey.'-Haradatta. 9. Manu II, 133.
10. See above, I, 4, 13, 2. E 2
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