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117. Or! (this penance is performed) by (eating) lotus-seeds. 18. A total fast for twelve days is called Pardka. 19. Subsisting for one day on the urine and feeces of a cow, milk, sour milk, butter, and water here, and refers to another kind of Aghamarshawa penance at the same time, which is described by Sankha, and consists simply in fasting for three days and muttering the Aghamarshawa hymn three times. 17. ' According to Nand., the particle va, ‘or,’ here indicates another alternative, that of performing this penance with Amalakas (Emblica Officinalis Gaertn.) XLVII, 2. PENANCES. 15r in which Kusa grass has been boiled, and fasting the next day, is called SAntapana (the tormenting penance). 20. Swallowing (the same six things, viz.) cowurine and the rest, each for one day, is called Mahasantapana (the particularly tormenting penance). 21. Swallowing each for three days is called Atisantapana (the extremely tormenting penance). 22. Swallowing oil-cakes, foam of boiled rice, buttermilk, water, and ground barley (each for one day), with a fasting day between (every two days), is called Tulapurusha (a man’s weight). 23. Drinking water boiled with Kusa grass, leaves of the Paldsa and Udumbara trees, of lotuses, of the Sankhapushpi plant, of the banyan tree, and of the Brahmasuvaréala plant, each (for one day), is called Parwakrzkkhra (leaves penance). 24. Let a man perform all those penances after having shorn his hair and his beard, and let him bathe at morning, noon, and evening every day, lying on a low couch, and restraining his passions, 25. And let him (while engaged in performing them) avoid to converse with women, Sfdras, or outcasts, and let him constantly, to the best of his ability, mutter purifying Mamtras and make oblations in the fire. XLVII. 1. Now follows the KAndrdyama (lunar penance). 2. Let a man eat single mouthfuls (of food) unchanged in size; XLVII. 1-10. M. XI, 217-222. — 1-3, 9. Y. III, 324, 325. — 1-4. Gaut. XXVII, 12-15. 2. ‘Unchanged in size’ means ‘of that size precisely which the law prescribes,’ YAgfiavalkya (III, 324) states that each daily 152 VISHNU. XLVII, 3 3. And let him during the moon’s increase add (successively) one mouthful (every day, so as to eat one mouthful on the first day of the moon’s increase, two mouthfuls on the second day, and so on; fifteen mouthfuls on the day of full moon), and during the wane of the moon let him take off one mouthful (every day, so as to eat fourteen mouthfuls on the first day of the moon’s wane, thirteen mouthfuls on the second, and one mouthful on the fourteenth day of the moon’s wane), and on the day of new moon let him fast entirely: thus has the barley-shaped K4ndrayaza been described. 4. Or the ant-shaped A4ndrdyava (may be performed). 5. That AKAndréyaza is called ‘ant-shaped’ in which the day of new moon is placed in the middle. ° 6. That one is called ‘barley-shaped’ in which the day of full moon is placed in the middle.
24. Or the ant-shaped A4ndrdyava (may be performed). 5. That AKAndréyaza is called ‘ant-shaped’ in which the day of new moon is placed in the middle. ° 6. That one is called ‘barley-shaped’ in which the day of full moon is placed in the middle. 7. If a man eats for a month eight mouthfuls a: day, it is (the penance called) Yati#4ndrayaza (an hermit’s Kandrayama). 8. Eating (for a month) four mouthfuls each morning and evening is (the penance called) Sisukandrayaza (a childs AAndrdyama). , 9. Eating anyhow! three hundred minus sixty mouthfuls a month is the penance called SAmanya- Aandrayana (general KAndrayaza). portion must have the size of a peacock’s egg, and Gautama (XXVII, 10) prescribes that the size ofa mouthful shall be such as not to cause a distortion of the mouth in swallowing it. (Nand.) g. 1‘ Anyhow,’ i.e. otherwise than ordained above, as e. g. eating four mouthfuls on one day, and twelve on the next day ; or fasting on one day, and eating sixteen mouthfuls on the following day; or fasting for two days, and eating twenty-four mouthfuls on the third XLVIITI, 6. PENANCES. 153 10. After having performed this penance, in a former age, the seven holy Azshis, Brahman, and Rudra acquired a splendid abode, O Earth. XLVIII. 1. Now if a man feels his conscience charged with some guilty act (such as performing a sacrifice for, or accepting a gift from, unworthy persons, or eating excrements) committed by himself (or if his conscience tells him that he has done more evil than good, or if he thinks himself less pure than others), let him boil a handful of barley-gruel for the sake of his own spiritual welfare. 2. Let him not make the (customary) Vaisvadeva offering after that. 3. Neither must he make the Bali offerings. 4. Let him consecrate with Mantras the barley, before it has been put to the fire, while it is being boiled, and after it has been boiled. * 5. Let him watch the barley, while it is being boiled (muttering at the same time the following Mantra) : 6. ‘Soma, who is the highest priest among priests (gods), leader among the wise, Azshi among bards, the falcon among rapacious birds, the Svadhiti tree among trees, trickles murmuring through the filter.’ day; or fasting for three days, and eating thirty-two mouthfuls on the fourth day. (Nand.) : XLVIII. 1. Gaut. XIX, 13. 2, 3. Regarding the regular oblations which have to be offered at meal times &c. to the Visvedevas and to all beings (bhftani), see LIX, 22, 24; LXVIII, 1-22. 4. The Mantras are given below, 17-22. 6. 1 Rig-veda IX, 96,6. Regarding the translation of this verse, see Dr. Zimmer’s remarks, Altindisches Leben, p. 207. 154 VISHNU. XLVIII, 7. With these words he must fasten blades of Kusa grass (round the neck of the kettle). 7. The pulse having been boiled, he must pour it into another vessel and eat it.
3Regarding the translation of this verse, see Dr. Zimmer’s remarks, Altindisches Leben, p. 207. 154 VISHNU. XLVIII, 7. With these words he must fasten blades of Kusa grass (round the neck of the kettle). 7. The pulse having been boiled, he must pour it into another vessel and eat it. 8. Let him help himself to it, while muttering the Mantra, ‘The gods, who have sprung up in the mind and satisfy the mind, who are gifted with great energy, and whose father is Daksha, shall protect and help us. To them be Namaé (adoration), to them be Svah4 (hail).’ 9g. Then, after having sipped water, let him seize the centre (of the vessel) and mutter the Mantra: 10. ‘ Be satisfied in our stomach, O ye waters, and ye barley-corns, after having been bathed; they shall be salubrious to us, conferring bliss, causing health, divine, causing immortality, and increasers of Rita (truth and justice).’ 11. One desirous of wisdom (must perform this rite) for three days; 12. A sinner, for six days. . 13. Any of the mortal sinners (killers of a Brahmaza, stealers of gold, and the rest) becomes purified by swallowing it for seven days. 14. Swallowing it for twelve nights effaces even sins committed by an ancestor ; 15. Swallowing it for a month, every sin (whether light or heavy, and whether committed by himself or by an ancestor). 16. And so does swallowing barley-corns dissolved in the excrements of a cow for twenty-one days (efface every sin). 17. ‘Thou art barley, thou the king of grains, 8. Taittirlya Samhita I, 2, 3, 1. See also Vagasaneyi Samhita IV, 11, &c. XLIX, tr. PENANCES, 155 thou water mixed with honey; the Azshis have proclaimed thee an expeller of every kind of guilt and an instrument of purification. 18. ‘You are clarified butter and honey, O ye barley-corns; you are water and ambrosia, O ye barley-corns. May you efface whatever sinful acts I have committed : 19. ‘Sins committed by words, by acts, and by evil thoughts. Avert distress and ill-fortune from me, O ye barley-corns. 20. ‘Purify food licked at by dogs or pigs, or defiled by leavings (of food), and (purify me from the stain) of disobedience towards mother and father, O ye barley-corns. 21. ‘Purify for me food given by a multitude of persons, the food of a harlot, or of a Sidra, food offered at a Srdddha, food rendered impure by the birth of a child in the house, the food of a thief, and food offered at a Navasraddha (or new Srdddha, which takes place on the first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh day after a person’s demise). 22. ‘Purify me, O ye barley-corns, from the sin of injuring a child or of causing (a punishment) to be inflicted on some one by the king, from theft of gold (or other high crimes), from the violation of a religious duty, from performing a sacrifice for an unworthy person, and from abusing a Braéhmaza.’ XLIX. 1. After having fasted during the eleventh day of the bright half of the month Margasirsha, let a
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117. Or! (this penance is performed) by (eating) lotus-seeds. 18. A total fast for twelve days is called Pardka. 19. Subsisting for one day on the urine and feeces of a cow, milk, sour milk, butter, and water here, and refers to another kind of Aghamarshawa penance at the same time, which is described by Sankha, and consists simply in fasting for three days and muttering the Aghamarshawa hymn three times. 17. ' According to Nand., the particle va, ‘or,’ here indicates another alternative, that of performing this penance with Amalakas (Emblica Officinalis Gaertn.) XLVII, 2. PENANCES. 15r in which Kusa grass has been boiled, and fasting the next day, is called SAntapana (the tormenting penance). 20. Swallowing (the same six things, viz.) cowurine and the rest, each for one day, is called Mahasantapana (the particularly tormenting penance). 21. Swallowing each for three days is called Atisantapana (the extremely tormenting penance). 22. Swallowing oil-cakes, foam of boiled rice, buttermilk, water, and ground barley (each for one day), with a fasting day between (every two days), is called Tulapurusha (a man’s weight). 23. Drinking water boiled with Kusa grass, leaves of the Paldsa and Udumbara trees, of lotuses, of the Sankhapushpi plant, of the banyan tree, and of the Brahmasuvaréala plant, each (for one day), is called Parwakrzkkhra (leaves penance). 24. Let a man perform all those penances after having shorn his hair and his beard, and let him bathe at morning, noon, and evening every day, lying on a low couch, and restraining his passions, 25. And let him (while engaged in performing them) avoid to converse with women, Sfdras, or outcasts, and let him constantly, to the best of his ability, mutter purifying Mamtras and make oblations in the fire. XLVII. 1. Now follows the KAndrdyama (lunar penance). 2. Let a man eat single mouthfuls (of food) unchanged in size; XLVII. 1-10. M. XI, 217-222. — 1-3, 9. Y. III, 324, 325. — 1-4. Gaut. XXVII, 12-15. 2. ‘Unchanged in size’ means ‘of that size precisely which the law prescribes,’ YAgfiavalkya (III, 324) states that each daily 152 VISHNU. XLVII, 3 3. And let him during the moon’s increase add (successively) one mouthful (every day, so as to eat one mouthful on the first day of the moon’s increase, two mouthfuls on the second day, and so on; fifteen mouthfuls on the day of full moon), and during the wane of the moon let him take off one mouthful (every day, so as to eat fourteen mouthfuls on the first day of the moon’s wane, thirteen mouthfuls on the second, and one mouthful on the fourteenth day of the moon’s wane), and on the day of new moon let him fast entirely: thus has the barley-shaped K4ndrayaza been described. 4. Or the ant-shaped A4ndrdyava (may be performed). 5. That AKAndréyaza is called ‘ant-shaped’ in which the day of new moon is placed in the middle. ° 6. That one is called ‘barley-shaped’ in which the day of full moon is placed in the middle.
24. Or the ant-shaped A4ndrdyava (may be performed). 5. That AKAndréyaza is called ‘ant-shaped’ in which the day of new moon is placed in the middle. ° 6. That one is called ‘barley-shaped’ in which the day of full moon is placed in the middle. 7. If a man eats for a month eight mouthfuls a: day, it is (the penance called) Yati#4ndrayaza (an hermit’s Kandrayama). 8. Eating (for a month) four mouthfuls each morning and evening is (the penance called) Sisukandrayaza (a childs AAndrdyama). , 9. Eating anyhow! three hundred minus sixty mouthfuls a month is the penance called SAmanya- Aandrayana (general KAndrayaza). portion must have the size of a peacock’s egg, and Gautama (XXVII, 10) prescribes that the size ofa mouthful shall be such as not to cause a distortion of the mouth in swallowing it. (Nand.) g. 1‘ Anyhow,’ i.e. otherwise than ordained above, as e. g. eating four mouthfuls on one day, and twelve on the next day ; or fasting on one day, and eating sixteen mouthfuls on the following day; or fasting for two days, and eating twenty-four mouthfuls on the third XLVIITI, 6. PENANCES. 153 10. After having performed this penance, in a former age, the seven holy Azshis, Brahman, and Rudra acquired a splendid abode, O Earth. XLVIII. 1. Now if a man feels his conscience charged with some guilty act (such as performing a sacrifice for, or accepting a gift from, unworthy persons, or eating excrements) committed by himself (or if his conscience tells him that he has done more evil than good, or if he thinks himself less pure than others), let him boil a handful of barley-gruel for the sake of his own spiritual welfare. 2. Let him not make the (customary) Vaisvadeva offering after that. 3. Neither must he make the Bali offerings. 4. Let him consecrate with Mantras the barley, before it has been put to the fire, while it is being boiled, and after it has been boiled. * 5. Let him watch the barley, while it is being boiled (muttering at the same time the following Mantra) : 6. ‘Soma, who is the highest priest among priests (gods), leader among the wise, Azshi among bards, the falcon among rapacious birds, the Svadhiti tree among trees, trickles murmuring through the filter.’ day; or fasting for three days, and eating thirty-two mouthfuls on the fourth day. (Nand.) : XLVIII. 1. Gaut. XIX, 13. 2, 3. Regarding the regular oblations which have to be offered at meal times &c. to the Visvedevas and to all beings (bhftani), see LIX, 22, 24; LXVIII, 1-22. 4. The Mantras are given below, 17-22. 6. 1 Rig-veda IX, 96,6. Regarding the translation of this verse, see Dr. Zimmer’s remarks, Altindisches Leben, p. 207. 154 VISHNU. XLVIII, 7. With these words he must fasten blades of Kusa grass (round the neck of the kettle). 7. The pulse having been boiled, he must pour it into another vessel and eat it.
3Regarding the translation of this verse, see Dr. Zimmer’s remarks, Altindisches Leben, p. 207. 154 VISHNU. XLVIII, 7. With these words he must fasten blades of Kusa grass (round the neck of the kettle). 7. The pulse having been boiled, he must pour it into another vessel and eat it. 8. Let him help himself to it, while muttering the Mantra, ‘The gods, who have sprung up in the mind and satisfy the mind, who are gifted with great energy, and whose father is Daksha, shall protect and help us. To them be Namaé (adoration), to them be Svah4 (hail).’ 9g. Then, after having sipped water, let him seize the centre (of the vessel) and mutter the Mantra: 10. ‘ Be satisfied in our stomach, O ye waters, and ye barley-corns, after having been bathed; they shall be salubrious to us, conferring bliss, causing health, divine, causing immortality, and increasers of Rita (truth and justice).’ 11. One desirous of wisdom (must perform this rite) for three days; 12. A sinner, for six days. . 13. Any of the mortal sinners (killers of a Brahmaza, stealers of gold, and the rest) becomes purified by swallowing it for seven days. 14. Swallowing it for twelve nights effaces even sins committed by an ancestor ; 15. Swallowing it for a month, every sin (whether light or heavy, and whether committed by himself or by an ancestor). 16. And so does swallowing barley-corns dissolved in the excrements of a cow for twenty-one days (efface every sin). 17. ‘Thou art barley, thou the king of grains, 8. Taittirlya Samhita I, 2, 3, 1. See also Vagasaneyi Samhita IV, 11, &c. XLIX, tr. PENANCES, 155 thou water mixed with honey; the Azshis have proclaimed thee an expeller of every kind of guilt and an instrument of purification. 18. ‘You are clarified butter and honey, O ye barley-corns; you are water and ambrosia, O ye barley-corns. May you efface whatever sinful acts I have committed : 19. ‘Sins committed by words, by acts, and by evil thoughts. Avert distress and ill-fortune from me, O ye barley-corns. 20. ‘Purify food licked at by dogs or pigs, or defiled by leavings (of food), and (purify me from the stain) of disobedience towards mother and father, O ye barley-corns. 21. ‘Purify for me food given by a multitude of persons, the food of a harlot, or of a Sidra, food offered at a Srdddha, food rendered impure by the birth of a child in the house, the food of a thief, and food offered at a Navasraddha (or new Srdddha, which takes place on the first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh day after a person’s demise). 22. ‘Purify me, O ye barley-corns, from the sin of injuring a child or of causing (a punishment) to be inflicted on some one by the king, from theft of gold (or other high crimes), from the violation of a religious duty, from performing a sacrifice for an unworthy person, and from abusing a Braéhmaza.’ XLIX. 1. After having fasted during the eleventh day of the bright half of the month Margasirsha, let a
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