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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XVI, 1.
THE STUDY OF THE VEDA.
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24. If (a funeral offering) is looked at by dogs, Kandalas, or outcasts, it is blemished.
25. Therefore he shall offer it in an enclosed (place),
26. Or he shall scatter grains of sesamum over it, 27. Or a man who sanctifies the company shall remove the blemish.
28. Persons who sanctify the company are, any one who knows the six Angas, who sings the Gyeshtha-sâmans, who knows the three texts regarding the Nâkiketa-fire, who knows the text which contains thrice the word Madhu, who knows the text which thrice contains the word Suparna, who keeps five fires, a Snâtaka, any one who knows the Mantras and Brahmanas, who knows the sacred law, and in whose family the study and teaching of the Veda are hereditary.
29. (The same rule applies) to sacrifices offered to gods and men.
30. Some (forbid the invitation of) bald men and the rest to a funeral repast only.
CHAPTER XVI.
1. The annual (term for studying the Veda) begins on the full moon of the month Srâvana (JulyAugust); or let him perform the Upâkarman on
24. Âpastamba II, 7, 17, 20. 28. Âpastamba II, 7, 17, 22. 29-30. Manu III, 132-137, 148-149. XVI. 1. Âpastamba I, 3, 9, 1. The Upâkarman is the ceremony which is annually performed at the beginning of the course of study, and it is obligatory on householders also; see Âpastamba II, 2, 5, I. Khandâmsi, the Vedic texts,' i.e. the Mantras and Brahmanas. The Angas may be studied out of term; see Âpastamba I, 3, 9, 3 note.
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