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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II, 7, 17. HOUSEHOLDER; FUNERAL-OBLATIONS.
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offered, he shall take a portion of the food of all (three), and shall eat a small mouthful of the remainder in the manner described in the Grihyasutra).
17. But the custom of the Northerners is to pour into the hands of the Brâhmanas, when they are seated on their seats, (water which has been taken from the water-vessel.)
18. (At the time of the burnt-offering which is offered at the beginning of the dinner) he addresses the Brâhmanas with this Mantra : 'Let it be taken out, and let it be offered in the fire.'
19. (They shall give their permission with this Mantra) : Let it be taken out at thy pleasure, let it be offered in the fire at thy pleasure.' Having received this permission, he shall take out (some of the prepared food) and offer it.
20. They blame it, if dogs and Apapâtras are allowed to see the performance of a funeral-sacrifice.
21. The following persons defile the company if they are invited to a funeral-sacrifice, viz. a leper, a bald man, the violator of another man's bed, the son of a Brahmana who follows the profession of a Kshatriya, and the son of (a Brâhmana who by marrying first a Sûdra wife had himself become) a Sudra, born from a Brâhmana woman.
17. The North of India begins to the north of the river Sarâvatî. The rule alluded to is given by Yâgñ. I, 226, 229; Manu III, 210. 18. Yagn. I, 235.
20. Manu III, 239. 21. Manu III, 152–166, and particularly 153 and 154; Yâgñ. I, 222-224. Haradatta's explanation of the word “Sudra' by 'a Brâhmana who has become a Sûdra' is probably right, because the son of a real Sadra and of a Brâhmana female is a K'andala, and has been disposed of by the preceding Sætra.
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