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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I, 26.
INITIATION.
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17. Hempen or linen cloth, the (inner) bark (of trees), and woollen blankets (may be worn as lower garments by students) of all (castes),
18. And undyed cotton cloth. 19. Some (declare that it) even (may be dyed) red.
20. (In that case the garment) of a Brâhmana (shall be dyed with a red dye) produced from a tree,
21. (And those of students) of the other two (castes shall be) dyed with madder or turmeric.
22. The staff (carried by a siudent) of the Brâhmana (caste shall be) made of Bilva or Palâsa wood.
27. Staves made of Asvattha or Pilu wood (are fit) for (students of) the remaining (two castes).
24. Or (a staff cut from a tree) that is fit to be used at a sacrifice (may be carried by students) of all (castes).
25. (The staves must be) unblemished, bent (at the top) like a sacrificial post, and covered by their bark.
26. They shall reach the crown of the head, the forehead, (or) the tip of the nose (according to the caste of the wearer).
17. Haradatta explains kira, the inner bark of a tree, by 'made of Kusa grass and the like. Regarding dresses made of Kusa grass, see the Petersburg Dict. s.v. Kusakîra. Kîra may also mean
rags,' such as were worn by Sannyâsins (see below, III, 19) and Bauddha ascetics.
19–21. Âpastamba I, 1, 2, 41-I, 1, 3, 2. 22. Apastamba I, 1, 2, 38.
24. Because the term "fit to be used at a sacrifice" is employed, the Vibhîtaka and the like (unclean trees) are excluded.' Haradatta. Regarding the Vibhîtaka, see Report of Tour in Kasmir, Journal Bombay Br. Roy. As. Soc. XXXIV A, p. 8.
25. Manu II, 47. Unblemished means uninjured by worms and the like.'-Haradatta.
26. Manu II, 46.
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