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.
XXV, 1.
CHAPTER XXV.
1. Now they say: 'How many (gods) does a student enter who violates the vow of chastity?'
2. (And they answer): 'His vital spirits (go to) the Maruts (winds), his strength to Indra, his eminence in sacred learning to Brihaspati, all the remaining parts to Agni.'
3. He kindles the fire in the night of the new moon, and offers, by way of penance, two oblations of clarified butter,
4. (Reciting these two sacred texts), 'Defiled by lust am I, defiled am I, oh Lust; to Lust svâhâ;' 'Injured by lust am I, injured am I, oh Lust; to Lust svâhâ.' (Next) he (silently) places one piece of sacred fuel (on the fire), sprinkles water round the fire, offers the Yagñavâstu (oblation), and approaching (the fire) worships it, thrice (reciting the text), ' May the waters sprinkle me.'
5. These worlds are three; in order to conquer
XXV. 1. For this and the following five Sûtras, see Taittirîya Aranyaka II, 18, 1 seq.
2. 'All the remaining parts, i.e. his sight and the other organs of sense, go to Agni. Thus a student who has broken the vow of chastity becomes short-lived, weak, destitute of eminence in sacred learning, and destitute of sight, and so forth. Therefore a penance must be performed.'-Haradatta. It must, of course, be understood that the penance prescribed here, is a 'secret penance.'
3. He, i.e. the unchaste student, shall kindle the fire in the night of the new moon, i.e. at midnight, in the manner declared in the Grihya-sûtra.'-Haradatta.
4. Haradatta says that while sprinkling water the performer shall recite the texts Aditi, thou hast permitted,' see Âpastamba II, 2, 3, 17 note. The Yagnavâstu oblation, which follows after the Svishtakrit offering, is described Gobhila Grihya-sûtra I, 8, 26-29.
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