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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XV, 18.
FUNERAL OBLATIONS.
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the destroyer of the sacred fire, (the husband of) a younger sister married before the elder, the husband of an elder sister whose youngest sister was married first, a person who sacrifices for women or for a multitude of men, a man who tends goats, who has given up the fire-worship, who drinks spirituous liquor, whose conduct is blamable, who is a false witness, who lives as a door-keeper;
17. Who lives with another man's wife, and the (husband) who allows that (must not be invited);
18. (Nor shall he feed) a man who eats the food of a person born from adulterous intercourse, a seller of Soma, an incendiary, a poisoner, a man who during studentship has broken the vow of chastity, who is the servant of a guild, who has intercourse with females who must not be touched, who delights in doing hurt, a younger brother married before the elder brother, an elder brother married after his younger brother, an elder brother whose
out of hatred against his wife, and for the like reasons.'-Haradatta. He also remarks that some read agredidhishu instead of agredidhishd, and he proposes to explain the former, on the authority of Vyâghra and of the Naighantukas, as 'a Brahmana whose wife has been wedded before to another man.'
17. My MSS. make two Sûtras out of Professor Stenzler's one, and read upapatih 1.yasya ka sah. The sense remains the same, but the latter version of the text is, I think, the correct one.
18. Haradatta says that kundâ sin may also mean 'he who eats out of a vessel called kunda,' as the people have in some countries the habit of preparing their food and afterwards eating out of the kunda. Haradatta explains tyaktâtman, one who despairs of himself,' by one who has made an attempt on his own life, and has tried to hang himself, and the like.' He remarks that some explain durvála, 'a bald man,' by nirveshtitasepha. He who neglects the recitation of the sacred texts, i.e. of those texts which, like the Gayatri, ought to be recited.
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