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1See Apast. II, 7, 17, 22, with Dr. Biihler’s note, and the Petersburg Dictionary. 4. Sama-veda II, 209-211, &c. 4. Grammar is again mentioned here, although it forms part of the Vedaéngas mentioned in Sfitra 6. But there the Pratisékhyas are meant. (Nand.) ° 8. The number of the Smrztis or Dharmas4stras, according to Nand., amounts to fifty-seven. The now current tradition gives thirty-six as their number; but upwards of a hundred works of this description must have been actually in existence. See Dr. Bihler’s Introduction to the Bombay Digest, p. xii seq. 16. See above, LVI, 23, and Dr. Biihler’s note on Apast. loc. cit. Nand. proposes another interpretation also of the term Trisuparaa, ‘one who has thrice kindled a fire in honour of Suparaa.’ LXXXIV, 4. SRADDHAS. 255 17. A son-in-law ; 18. And a grandson. All these persons are worthy (to be fed at a Srdddha) ; 19. And, particularly, devotees. 20. There is a stanza recited by the manes, which refers to this subject: 21. ‘May that man be born to our race, who feeds a Brdhmaza devotee assiduously at a Sraddha, by which repast we are satisfied ourselves.’ LXXXIV. 1. He must not offer a Sraddha in a country inhabited by barbarians. 2. He must not visit a country inhabited by barbarians (excepting on a pilgrimage). 3. By (constantly) drinking water from (or bathing in) a pool situated in a foreign (barbarous) country, he becomes equal to its inhabitants. 4. Those countries are called barbarous (mleékha) where the system of the four castes does not exist; the others are denoted AryAvarta (the abode of the Aryans). 18, According to Nand., the particles 4a and iti refer to the sister’s son and other relatives, as enumerated by Y4gfiavalkya I, 220, 221. 19. Nand. thinks that 4a here refers to ascetics. LXXXIV. 2. Nand. quotes a stanza of Devala to the effect that one who has visited the countries of Sindh, of the Sauviras, Sur4t, and the adjacent parts, Bengal proper, Kalinga, South Bihar, and Malwa requires to be initiated a second time. 3. ‘ Ka refers to pools belonging to Kamndalas or other degraded castes.’ (Nand.) 4. AryAvarta is the name of the whole tract of land which extends from the eastern to the western ocean, and is bounded by the Himflayas and by the Vindhya mountains in the north and south. See Manu II, 21, 22. 256 VISHNU. LXXXV, 1. LXXXV. 1. A Sraddha offered at the (Tirtha or place of pilgrimage called) Pushkaras confers eternal bliss upon the giver; 2. And so does the muttering of prayers, the offering of burnt-oblations, and the practice of austerities in that place. 3. Even by merely bathing at Pushkara he is purified from all his sins. 4. The same effect may be produced at Gayésirsha ; 5. And near Vata (Akshayavada) ; 6. And on the Amarakazéaka mountain; 7, And on the Var4ha mountain;
23. Even by merely bathing at Pushkara he is purified from all his sins. 4. The same effect may be produced at Gayésirsha ; 5. And near Vata (Akshayavada) ; 6. And on the Amarakazéaka mountain; 7, And on the Var4ha mountain; LXXXV. 1. Pushkara, according to the common acceptation of the term, is the name of a celebrated place of pilgrimage near Agmir, the modern Pokur. See Lassen, Indian Antiquities, I, 113. Nand. quotes a Smriti passage to the effect that there are three Pushkaras, and a passage of the Mahabharata, in which it is stated that one Pushkara is sacred to Brahman, another to Vishau, and a third to Rudra. 3. Nand. asserts with regard to the use of the name Pushkara in the singular number in this Sfitra, that it means even a single bath has the consequence here mentioned. 4. Gayasirsha is the name of a mountain near Gay4 in Bihar, a celebrated place of pilgrimage. Compare YAgfiavalkya I, 260. " g. There exists one Akshayava/a in Bihar (Nand.) and another in Prayaga (Allahabad). The ‘undecaying banyan-tree’ (Akshay Baé) is an object of worship at Allahabad even now, and was s0 already in the times of Hwen Thsang. See Cunningham, Ancient Geography of India, p. 389; St. Julien, Voyages des Pélerins Bouddhistes, II, 278. 6. Nand. states that both the Tirtha called Amarakam/aka on the Mekala mountain in the Vindhya range and the whole mountain of that name are meant, 7. ‘This is a certain boar-shaped mountain.’ (Nand.) It seems very probable that the Tirtha of Baramfila, the ancient Varaha- LXXXV, 23. SRADDHAS. 257 8. And anywhere on the bank of the Narmada (Nerbudda) river ; g. And on the bank of the Yamuné (Jumna) ; 10. And, particularly, on the Ganga; 11, And at Kusdvarta ; 12. And at Binduka; 13. And upon the Nilgiri hills; 14. And at Kanakhala; 15. And at Kubgamra; 16. And on the Bhvzgutunga (mountain) ; 17. And at Kedara; 18. And on the Mahdalaya (mountain); 19.’ And on the Nadantika (river); 20. And on the Sugandhé (river); 21. And at Sakambhari; 22. And at Phalgutirtha; 23. And on the mila in Kasmir, is meant. See Biihler, Kasmir Report, p. 12, where a ‘ Varéha hill’ is mentioned as adjacent to that town. 11. This Tirtha ‘is situated upon the mountain called Tryambaka, where the GodAvart river takes its rise.’ (Nand.) Tryambaka is the modern Trimbak (the name of a place of pilgrimage situated near N&sik). 12. ‘Binduka is the name of a Tirtha in the Dekhan. Bilvaka, as other texts read (the MS. on which the two Calcutta editions are based among the number), is the name of another Tirtha in the Dekhan.’ (Nand.) 14. There is one Kanakhala in the Himflayas, and another near Trimbak. (Nand.) 15. There is one plain of that name in Orissa, and another in Haridvar. (Nand.) 16. This is the name of a sacred mountain near the Amarakan/aka range, according to Nand.; in the Himflayas, according to others. See the Petersburg Dictionary. 17. Kedara (the Kedar mountains?) is in the Himlayas. (Nand.)
3(Nand.) 16. This is the name of a sacred mountain near the Amarakan/aka range, according to Nand.; in the Himflayas, according to others. See the Petersburg Dictionary. 17. Kedara (the Kedar mountains?) is in the Himlayas. (Nand.) 18, 19. These two names are not defined by Nand. 20. This is a river in the vicinity of the Saugandhika mountain. (Nand.) a1. Sakambhart is the modern Sh4mbar, which lies ‘in the desert of Marudesa, on the salt lake.’ (Nand.) 22. ‘Phalgutirtha is a Tirtha in Gay.’ (Nand.) 23. Mahagang4, ‘the great Gang,’ is the Alakananda river [7] s 258 VISHNU. LXXXV, 24. Mahdgang4; 24. And at Trihalikagrama; 25. And at Kuméradhaéré; 26. And at Prabhdsa; 27. And particularly anywhere on (the bank of) the Sarasvati ; 28. At GangAdvara (Haridvar), at Prayaga (Allahabad), where the Gang4 falls into the ocean, constantly in the Naimisha forest, and especially at Benares; 29. And at Agastydsrama ; 30. And at Kazvasrama (on the Ma§lint river) ; 31. And on the Kausikt (Kosi river) ; 32. And on the bank of the Sarayt (Surju river in Oudh) ; 33. And on the confluence of the Sova (Sone) and Gyotisha rivers ; 34. And on the Sriparvata (mountain) ; (Nand.), which takes its rise in the Himalayas and falls into the Ganges. 24. ‘Trihalikagrama means Sélagrfma. There is another reading, Tazdulikasrama.’ (Nand.) 25. This is the name of a lake in Kasmir, which the god Kumfra by a mighty stroke caused to stream forth from the Kraufika mountain (see Vayu-purdza); or Kumaradhéré is situated near the southern ocean in the plain of Ishupata. (Nand.) 26. Prabhdsa is. the name of a Tirtha near Dvaraka, on the western point of Kattivar. (Nand.) 24. Regarding the river Sarasvati and its reputed holiness, see particularly Cunningham, Ancient Geography of India, I, 331 seq., and Manu II, 17. ‘28. The Naimisha forest is in the northern country. (Nand.) 29. ‘Agastyasrama is situated near Pushkara (Sfitra 1), on the bank of: the Sarasvatt. There is another Agastydsrama in the south, near Svamisthana.’ (Nand.) 33. The confluence of those two rivers is in the centre of the Vindhya range. For the name of the second, another reading is Gyottratha. (Nand.) 34. The Sriparvata or Srisaila, where the Mallikarguna (symbol of Siva) is worshipped, is in the Dekhan. (Nand.) LXXXV, 53. SRADDHAS, 259 35. And at (the Tirtha situated on the Yamuné, which is called) K4lodaka. 36. And at Uttaramdnasa (in the Kedar mountains, in the Himalayas). 37. And at Vadav4 (in the Dekhan). 38. And at Matangavapt (in the southern part of Gay4); 39. And at Saptérsha; 4o. And at Vishzupada; 41. And at Svargamargapada (or Rathamarga) ; 42. And on the Godavart river (in the Dekhan); 43. And on the Gomati (river); 44. And on the Vetravatt (river) ; 45. And on the Vip4sa (river) ; 46. And on the Vitasta (river) ; 47. And on the banks of the Satadru (river); 48. And on the Xandrabhaga (river) ; 49. Andon the frAvatt (river) ; 50. And on the banks of the Indus ;.
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1See Apast. II, 7, 17, 22, with Dr. Biihler’s note, and the Petersburg Dictionary. 4. Sama-veda II, 209-211, &c. 4. Grammar is again mentioned here, although it forms part of the Vedaéngas mentioned in Sfitra 6. But there the Pratisékhyas are meant. (Nand.) ° 8. The number of the Smrztis or Dharmas4stras, according to Nand., amounts to fifty-seven. The now current tradition gives thirty-six as their number; but upwards of a hundred works of this description must have been actually in existence. See Dr. Bihler’s Introduction to the Bombay Digest, p. xii seq. 16. See above, LVI, 23, and Dr. Biihler’s note on Apast. loc. cit. Nand. proposes another interpretation also of the term Trisuparaa, ‘one who has thrice kindled a fire in honour of Suparaa.’ LXXXIV, 4. SRADDHAS. 255 17. A son-in-law ; 18. And a grandson. All these persons are worthy (to be fed at a Srdddha) ; 19. And, particularly, devotees. 20. There is a stanza recited by the manes, which refers to this subject: 21. ‘May that man be born to our race, who feeds a Brdhmaza devotee assiduously at a Sraddha, by which repast we are satisfied ourselves.’ LXXXIV. 1. He must not offer a Sraddha in a country inhabited by barbarians. 2. He must not visit a country inhabited by barbarians (excepting on a pilgrimage). 3. By (constantly) drinking water from (or bathing in) a pool situated in a foreign (barbarous) country, he becomes equal to its inhabitants. 4. Those countries are called barbarous (mleékha) where the system of the four castes does not exist; the others are denoted AryAvarta (the abode of the Aryans). 18, According to Nand., the particles 4a and iti refer to the sister’s son and other relatives, as enumerated by Y4gfiavalkya I, 220, 221. 19. Nand. thinks that 4a here refers to ascetics. LXXXIV. 2. Nand. quotes a stanza of Devala to the effect that one who has visited the countries of Sindh, of the Sauviras, Sur4t, and the adjacent parts, Bengal proper, Kalinga, South Bihar, and Malwa requires to be initiated a second time. 3. ‘ Ka refers to pools belonging to Kamndalas or other degraded castes.’ (Nand.) 4. AryAvarta is the name of the whole tract of land which extends from the eastern to the western ocean, and is bounded by the Himflayas and by the Vindhya mountains in the north and south. See Manu II, 21, 22. 256 VISHNU. LXXXV, 1. LXXXV. 1. A Sraddha offered at the (Tirtha or place of pilgrimage called) Pushkaras confers eternal bliss upon the giver; 2. And so does the muttering of prayers, the offering of burnt-oblations, and the practice of austerities in that place. 3. Even by merely bathing at Pushkara he is purified from all his sins. 4. The same effect may be produced at Gayésirsha ; 5. And near Vata (Akshayavada) ; 6. And on the Amarakazéaka mountain; 7, And on the Var4ha mountain;
23. Even by merely bathing at Pushkara he is purified from all his sins. 4. The same effect may be produced at Gayésirsha ; 5. And near Vata (Akshayavada) ; 6. And on the Amarakazéaka mountain; 7, And on the Var4ha mountain; LXXXV. 1. Pushkara, according to the common acceptation of the term, is the name of a celebrated place of pilgrimage near Agmir, the modern Pokur. See Lassen, Indian Antiquities, I, 113. Nand. quotes a Smriti passage to the effect that there are three Pushkaras, and a passage of the Mahabharata, in which it is stated that one Pushkara is sacred to Brahman, another to Vishau, and a third to Rudra. 3. Nand. asserts with regard to the use of the name Pushkara in the singular number in this Sfitra, that it means even a single bath has the consequence here mentioned. 4. Gayasirsha is the name of a mountain near Gay4 in Bihar, a celebrated place of pilgrimage. Compare YAgfiavalkya I, 260. " g. There exists one Akshayava/a in Bihar (Nand.) and another in Prayaga (Allahabad). The ‘undecaying banyan-tree’ (Akshay Baé) is an object of worship at Allahabad even now, and was s0 already in the times of Hwen Thsang. See Cunningham, Ancient Geography of India, p. 389; St. Julien, Voyages des Pélerins Bouddhistes, II, 278. 6. Nand. states that both the Tirtha called Amarakam/aka on the Mekala mountain in the Vindhya range and the whole mountain of that name are meant, 7. ‘This is a certain boar-shaped mountain.’ (Nand.) It seems very probable that the Tirtha of Baramfila, the ancient Varaha- LXXXV, 23. SRADDHAS. 257 8. And anywhere on the bank of the Narmada (Nerbudda) river ; g. And on the bank of the Yamuné (Jumna) ; 10. And, particularly, on the Ganga; 11, And at Kusdvarta ; 12. And at Binduka; 13. And upon the Nilgiri hills; 14. And at Kanakhala; 15. And at Kubgamra; 16. And on the Bhvzgutunga (mountain) ; 17. And at Kedara; 18. And on the Mahdalaya (mountain); 19.’ And on the Nadantika (river); 20. And on the Sugandhé (river); 21. And at Sakambhari; 22. And at Phalgutirtha; 23. And on the mila in Kasmir, is meant. See Biihler, Kasmir Report, p. 12, where a ‘ Varéha hill’ is mentioned as adjacent to that town. 11. This Tirtha ‘is situated upon the mountain called Tryambaka, where the GodAvart river takes its rise.’ (Nand.) Tryambaka is the modern Trimbak (the name of a place of pilgrimage situated near N&sik). 12. ‘Binduka is the name of a Tirtha in the Dekhan. Bilvaka, as other texts read (the MS. on which the two Calcutta editions are based among the number), is the name of another Tirtha in the Dekhan.’ (Nand.) 14. There is one Kanakhala in the Himflayas, and another near Trimbak. (Nand.) 15. There is one plain of that name in Orissa, and another in Haridvar. (Nand.) 16. This is the name of a sacred mountain near the Amarakan/aka range, according to Nand.; in the Himflayas, according to others. See the Petersburg Dictionary. 17. Kedara (the Kedar mountains?) is in the Himlayas. (Nand.)
3(Nand.) 16. This is the name of a sacred mountain near the Amarakan/aka range, according to Nand.; in the Himflayas, according to others. See the Petersburg Dictionary. 17. Kedara (the Kedar mountains?) is in the Himlayas. (Nand.) 18, 19. These two names are not defined by Nand. 20. This is a river in the vicinity of the Saugandhika mountain. (Nand.) a1. Sakambhart is the modern Sh4mbar, which lies ‘in the desert of Marudesa, on the salt lake.’ (Nand.) 22. ‘Phalgutirtha is a Tirtha in Gay.’ (Nand.) 23. Mahagang4, ‘the great Gang,’ is the Alakananda river [7] s 258 VISHNU. LXXXV, 24. Mahdgang4; 24. And at Trihalikagrama; 25. And at Kuméradhaéré; 26. And at Prabhdsa; 27. And particularly anywhere on (the bank of) the Sarasvati ; 28. At GangAdvara (Haridvar), at Prayaga (Allahabad), where the Gang4 falls into the ocean, constantly in the Naimisha forest, and especially at Benares; 29. And at Agastydsrama ; 30. And at Kazvasrama (on the Ma§lint river) ; 31. And on the Kausikt (Kosi river) ; 32. And on the bank of the Sarayt (Surju river in Oudh) ; 33. And on the confluence of the Sova (Sone) and Gyotisha rivers ; 34. And on the Sriparvata (mountain) ; (Nand.), which takes its rise in the Himalayas and falls into the Ganges. 24. ‘Trihalikagrama means Sélagrfma. There is another reading, Tazdulikasrama.’ (Nand.) 25. This is the name of a lake in Kasmir, which the god Kumfra by a mighty stroke caused to stream forth from the Kraufika mountain (see Vayu-purdza); or Kumaradhéré is situated near the southern ocean in the plain of Ishupata. (Nand.) 26. Prabhdsa is. the name of a Tirtha near Dvaraka, on the western point of Kattivar. (Nand.) 24. Regarding the river Sarasvati and its reputed holiness, see particularly Cunningham, Ancient Geography of India, I, 331 seq., and Manu II, 17. ‘28. The Naimisha forest is in the northern country. (Nand.) 29. ‘Agastyasrama is situated near Pushkara (Sfitra 1), on the bank of: the Sarasvatt. There is another Agastydsrama in the south, near Svamisthana.’ (Nand.) 33. The confluence of those two rivers is in the centre of the Vindhya range. For the name of the second, another reading is Gyottratha. (Nand.) 34. The Sriparvata or Srisaila, where the Mallikarguna (symbol of Siva) is worshipped, is in the Dekhan. (Nand.) LXXXV, 53. SRADDHAS, 259 35. And at (the Tirtha situated on the Yamuné, which is called) K4lodaka. 36. And at Uttaramdnasa (in the Kedar mountains, in the Himalayas). 37. And at Vadav4 (in the Dekhan). 38. And at Matangavapt (in the southern part of Gay4); 39. And at Saptérsha; 4o. And at Vishzupada; 41. And at Svargamargapada (or Rathamarga) ; 42. And on the Godavart river (in the Dekhan); 43. And on the Gomati (river); 44. And on the Vetravatt (river) ; 45. And on the Vip4sa (river) ; 46. And on the Vitasta (river) ; 47. And on the banks of the Satadru (river); 48. And on the Xandrabhaga (river) ; 49. Andon the frAvatt (river) ; 50. And on the banks of the Indus ;.
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