Indian Antiquary Vol 04

SR No.: 032496
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 410
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[August, 1875.
sary ceremonies of the deaths of his natural father and mother.
40. The corpse should be burnt in the person's own soil, not in that of another person.
41. Sanyåsis should not see women.
42. Have always a love and regard for the future world.
43. Do not perform sråddhas for departed Sanyasis.
44. Brahman women should not see men other than their husbands.
45. Brahman females should not stir out of their houses) without maid-servants.
46. Wear only white clothes. 47. Do not bore a hole in your nose.
48. If a Brahman drinks (liquor) he loses his caste.
49. If a Brahman takes to wife another (ie. other than his wife) Brahman woman, he loses his caste.
50. Within the walls of a pagoda, idols should not be consecrated, nor temples endowed to the ghosts of ancestors who have died violent (or accidental) deaths.
51. Sadras should not touch the idol in a
pagoda.
16. Do not eat the uchchhishta (what remains in the dish after one's moal is over).
17. Do not eat what has been offered as naivedya to Siva.
18. Do not eat meals served with the bare palm; i.e. rice, ghee, and curry must be served with a spoon-like utensil.
19. Do not use buffalo's ghee and milk for homas (sacrificial ceremonies).
20. Do not use buffalo's ghee and milk for obituary anniversaries.
21. Take your meals so that there may be no remainder at the end on (1) the leaf, (2) the hand when cach morsel is swallowed.
29. Do not chew betel-leaf when you are unclean.
23. Lead the life of a Brahmachari (after the Upanayjana ceremony), perform the homas, and the sixteen various ceremonies prescribed for him.
24. Give the dues in the shape of money presents to your tutors.
25. Do not recite the Vedas in villages and streets.
26. Do not sell females, in marriage.
27. Do not stick to any vow solely for the attainment of any one aim.
28. If a female touches a girl who has just attained puberty-before the holy water (prenyaha) is sprinkled on her—she must bathe before taking her food, being unclean. If a malo Brahman does so, changing the holy thread and purification by holy water are requisite.
29. Brahmans should not weave. 30. Do not wash your clothes yourself.
31. Kshatriyas, &c. should not-Brahmans only should-worship Rudraksha beads or the linga of Siva.
32. Brahmans should not accept the manes' offerings of a Sadra's érüldha.
33. Performance of sraddha is necessary for a deceased father, father's father, mother's father, and their wives.
34. Performance of śråddha on full-moon days is necessary to ingratiate the Pitris or ancestors.
25. Perform the sapindi ceremony at the prescribed time.
36. Keep your head unshaved for a complete year, as a vow, on the death of your father and mother.
37. Death anniversaries are to be performed by reference to the nakshatra (lunar mansion) on which the person died.
38. If you become polluted by a female relative bringing forth, at the time when you are to perform a sapindi ceremony, perform it after the pollution has left you, not otherwise.
39. An adopted son should perform the anniver-
52. What has been offered to one deity cannot be again offered to another. The same object should not constitfite offerings to two separate deities.)
53. Marriage cannot be performed without a homa, or burnt-offering the casting of clarified butter, &c. into the sacred fire as an offering to the gods accompanied with prayers, and invocations according to the object of the sacrifice.
54. A Brahman should not worship another Bråbman lying prostrate on the belly.
55. Neither is it proper that they should worship (make namaskara) to another, i.e. of a different caste.
56. Do not perform the sacrifice of the cow.
57. Such a state of things should not exist that some are Sairas and some Vaishnavas. The Keralaites are to hold both in equal veneration.
58. Wear only one holy thread-puna-nul. 59. The eldest son alone can marry. 60. The offering to the pitrís should be of rice.
61. Kshatriyas, &c. in performing their sråddhas should consider uncles in the place of fathers (Brahman).
62. Among the Kshatriyas, &c. succession to property is in the line of nephews.
63. Widows should observe the rules of sanyasa (strict celibacy). 64. There should be no sati.
N. SANKUNNI WARIYAR. Ernakolam.