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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GAUTAMA.
X, 65.
may use the exclamation namah (adoration) as his Mantra.
65. Some (declare), that he himself may offer the Pâkayagñas.
66. And all men must serve those who belong to higher castes.
67. If Åryans and non-Âryans interchange their occupations and conduct (the one taking that of the other, there is) equality (between them).
CHAPTER XI. 1. The king is master of all, with the exception of Brâhmanas.
2. (He shall be) holy in acts and speech,
3. Fully instructed in the threefold (sacred science) and in logic,
4. Pure, of subdued senses, surrounded by com
65. Manu X, 127. Regarding the Pâkayagñas, see above, VIII, 18.
67. There is equality between them, i.e. the one need not serve the other. A Sudra need not serve even a Brâhmana, much less) any other (twice-born man) who lives the life of a non-Aryan (Sadra). A Sadra, even, who conducts himself like an Aryan must not be despised by men of other castes, who follow the occupations of non-Aryans, on account of his inferior birth.'— Haradatta.
XI. 1. Macnaghten, Mitâksharâ I, 1,27; Manu IX, 313–322; Weber, Ind. Stud. X, 29, 60.
2. Manu VII, 26. Holy in acts,' i.e. constantly acting in conformity with the Sâstras; "holy in speech,' i.e. when administering justice he shall not speak partially.
3. Manu VII, 43; Yagñavalkya I, 310. Haradatta thinks that the term 'the threefold sacred science includes the fourth Veda also, because it consists chiefly of Rikas and Yagus formulas.
4. Manu VII, 30–31 ; Yâgñavalkya I, 354; Âpastamba II, II, 27, 18. Of subdued senses, i.e. free from the (seven) vices
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