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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ÂPASTAMBA.
1, 6, 18.
20. Nor (that of men) who live by letting lodgings or land.
21. A (professional) physician is a person whose food must not be eaten,
22. (Also) a usurer,
23. (Also) a Brâhmana who has performed the Dikshaniyeshti (or initiatory ceremony of the Somasacrifice) before he has bought the king (Soma).
24. (The food given by a person who has performed the Dikshaniyeshti may be eaten), when the victim sacred to Agni and Soma has been slain.
25. Or after that the omentum of the victim (sacred to Agni and Soma) has been offered.
26. For a Brâhmana declares, 'Or they may eat of the remainder of the animal, after having set apart a portion for the offering.'
27. A eunuch (is a person whose food must not be eaten),
28. (Likewise) the (professional) messenger employed by a king (or others),
29. (Likewise a Brâhmana) who offers substances that are not fit for a sacrifice,
30. (Likewise) a spy,
21. Manu IV, 212; Yâgñ. I, 162. 22. Manu IV, 210; Yagn. I, 161.
23. "That is to say, one who has begun, but not finished a Soma-sacrifice.'-Haradatta. Manu IV, 210, and Gopatha-brâhmana III, 19.
25. Aitareya-brâhmana II, 1, 9. 27. Manu IV, 211; Yâgn. I, 161.
28. The village or town messengers are always men of the lowest castes, such as the Mahârs of Mahârâshthra.
29. For example, he who offers human blood in a magic rite.'-Haradatta.
30. Haradatta explains kârî, translated by 'spy,' to mean 'a
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