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1Identical with Vishnu LXXXII, 20, and Manu III, 237. 34. Manu V, 35. 35. Identical with Manu III, 235. 37. Vishvu LXIX, 2-4. XI, 43. SACRIFICES. 55 course with a woman after offering or having dined at a Sraddha, feed during a month from that (day) on his semen.’ 38. ‘A child that is born from (intercourse immediately) after offering a Sraddha or partaking of a funeral repast, is unable to acquire sacred learning and becomes short-lived.’ 39. ‘The father and the grandfather, likewise the great-grandfather, beset a descendant who is born to them, just as birds (fly to) a fig tree ;’ 40. ‘ (Saying), “ He will offer to us funeral repasts with honey and meat, with vegetables, with milk and with messes made of milk, both in the rainy season and under the constellation Magh4f.”’ 41. ‘ The ancestors always rejoice at a descendant who lengthens the line, who is zealous in performing funeral sacrifices, and who is rich in (images of the) gods and (virtuous) Brahmama (guests).’ 42. ‘The manes consider him to be their (true) descendant who offers (to them) food at Gay4, and (by the virtue of that gift) they grant him (blessings), just as husbandmen (produce grain) on well-ploughed (fields).’ 43. He shall offer (a Sraddha) both on the full moon days of the months Sravava and AgrahAyama and on the Anvash/akt. 39-40. Vishau LXXVIII, 51-53. 41. ‘Who lengthens the line,’ i.e. who himself begets sons. Read instead of nuyantam pitrékarmani (v. 1]. muyantam and tr?pantah), ‘udyatam.’ 42. Vishnu LXXXV, 4, 66-67. 43. SrAvana, i.e. July-August; Agrahayama, i.e. Margasirsha or November—December. Anvash/aki means the day following the Ash/akA, or eighth day, i.e. the ninth day of the dark halves of Margasirsha, Pausha, Magha, and Phalguna. The form of the word is usually anvash/aka. 56 VASISHTHA. XI, 44. 44. There is no restriction as to time, if (particularly suitable) materials and (particularly holy) Brahmazas are at hand, or (if the sacrificer is) near (a particularly sacred) place. 45. A Brahmaza must necessarily kindle the three sacred fires. 46. He shall offer (in them) the full and new moon sacrifices, the (half-yearly) Agrayana Ishdi, the AKAturmAsya-sacrifice, the (half-yearly) sacrifices at which animals are slain, and the (annual) Somasacrifices. 47. For all this is (particularly) enjoined (in the Veda), and called by way of laudation ‘a debt.’ 48. For it is declared in the Veda, ‘A Brahmaza is born, loaded with three debts,’ (and further, ‘He owes) sacrifices to the gods, a son to the manes, the study of the Veda to the Azshis; therefore he is free from debt who has offered sacrifices, who has begotten a son, and who has lived as a student (with a teacher).’ 49. Let him (ordinarily) initiate a Brahmaza in the eighth (year) after conception, 50. A Kshatriya in the eleventh year after conception, 51. A Vaisya in the twelfth year after conception. 52. The staff of a Brahmama (student may) optionally (be made) of Palasa wood,
2Let him (ordinarily) initiate a Brahmaza in the eighth (year) after conception, 50. A Kshatriya in the eleventh year after conception, 51. A Vaisya in the twelfth year after conception. 52. The staff of a Brahmama (student may) optionally (be made) of Palasa wood, 44. Gautama XV, 5. 45. Vishau LIX, 2. 46. Vishwu LIX, 4~9. 47. Manu IV, 257. I read rzzasamstutam with MS. E. 48. Taitt.Samh.VI, 3, 10,5; Satapatha-brahmama I, 7, 2, 11. 49-51. Vishnu XXVII, 15-17. 52-54. Vishau XXVII, 29. Regarding other kinds of sticks, see Gautama I, 22-24. XI, 68. INITIATION. 57 53. (That) of a Kshatriya optionally of the wood of the Banyan tree, 54. (That) of a Vaisya optionally of Udumbara wood. 55. (The staff) of a Brahmaza shall (be of such a length as to) reach the hair, 56. (That) of a Kshatriya the forehead, 57. (That) of a Vaisya the (tip of the) nose. 58. The girdle of a Brahmawa shall be made of Muiaga grass, 59. A bowstring (shall be that) of a Kshatriya, 60. (That) of a Vaisya shall be made of hempen threads. 61. The upper garment of a Brahmama (shall be) the skin of a black antelope, 62. (That) of a Kshatriya the skin of a spotted deer, 63. (That) of a Vaisya a cow-skin or the hide of a he-goat. 64. The (lower) garment of a Brahmama (shall be) white (and) unblemished, 65. (That) of a Kshatriya dyed with madder, 66. (That) of a Vaisya dyed with turmeric, or made of (raw) silk; 67. Or (a dress made of) undyed (cotton) cloth may be worn by (students of ) all (castes). 68. A Braéhmaza shall ask for alms placing (the word) ‘ Lady’ first, 55-57. Vishvu XXVII, 22. 58-60. Vishwu XXVII, 18. 61-63. Vishnu XXVII, 20. ; 64-67. Vishnu XXVII, 19; Gautama I, 17-21. ‘Unblemished,’ i.e. new, without holes and seams. 68-70. Vishnu XXVII, 25. I.e. ‘Lady, give alms;’ ‘Give, O lady, alms ;’ and ‘Give alms, lady,’ 58 VASISHTHA. XI, 69. 69. A Kshatriya placing (the word) ‘ Lady’ in the middle, 70. A Vaisya placing (the word) ‘Lady’ at the end (of the formula). 71. The time (for the initiation) of a Brahmama has not passed until the completion of the sixteenth year, 72. (For that) of a Kshatriya until the completion of the twenty-second, 73. (For that) of a Vaisya until the completion of the twenty-fourth. 74. After that they become ‘men whose SAvitrt has been neglected.’ 75. Let him not initiate such men, nor teach them, nor sacrifice for them; let them not form matrimonial alliances (with such outcasts). 76. A man whose Savitri has not been performed, may undergo the Uddalaka-penance. 77. Let him subsist during two months on barleygruel, during one month on milk, during half a month on curds of two-milk whey, during eight days on clarified butter, during six days on alms given without asking, (and) during three days on water, and let him fast for one day and one night. 78. (Or) he may go to bathe (with the priests) at the end of an Asvamedha (horse-sacrifice). 79. Or he may offer a Vratya-stoma. 41-73. Vishnu XXVII, 26.
378. (Or) he may go to bathe (with the priests) at the end of an Asvamedha (horse-sacrifice). 79. Or he may offer a Vratya-stoma. 41-73. Vishnu XXVII, 26. 44. Vishnu XXVII, 27. SAvitri, literally ‘the Az sacred to Savitrz’ (Rig-veda III, 62, 10), means here ‘the initiation,’ see Gautama I, 12 note. 75. Apastamba I, 1, 1, 28. The plural vivahayeyuf, ‘let them (not) form matrimonial alliances,’ indicates that orthodox Brahmavas must neither give their daughters to PatitasAvitrikas nor take the daughters of such persons. 78. Gautama XIX, 9. 79. Gautama XIX, 8. XII, 8. DUTIES OF A SNATAKA. 59 Cuapter XII. 1. Now, therefore, the duties of a Snataka (will be explained). 2. Let him not beg from anybody except from a king and a pupil. 3. But let him ask, if pressed by hunger, for some (small gift) only, a cultivated or uncultivated field, a cow, a goat or a sheep, (or) at the last extremity, for gold, grain or food. 4. But the injunction (given by those who know the law) is, ‘A Snataka shall not be faint with hunger.’ 5. Let him not dwell together with a person whose clothes are foul; 6. (Let him not cohabit) with a woman during her courses, 7. Nor with an unfit one. 8. Let him not be a stay-at-home. XII. 1. ‘Now’ marks the beginning of a new topic. ‘ Therefore,’ i.e. because the duties of a Snataka have to be taught after those of a student. 2. Manu IV, 33; Gautama IX, 63. 3. Manu X, 113-114. 4. Manu IV, 34; Vishau III, 79. 5. Krishnapandita, whom I have followed in the translation of this Sfitra, thinks that it indicates the obligation of wearing clean clothes, see e.g. Vishau LXXI, 9. It seems to me, however, probable that its real sense is, ‘Let him not cohabit with a woman during her courses,’ and that the next Satra has to be read naéragasvalaya, ‘ Nor with one of immature age.’ 4. ‘An unfit one,’ i.e. ‘one of low caste’ (hin4).—Kyishnapandita. Probably a sick wife is meant, Gautama IX, 28. 8. Gautama IX, 53. Krishnapandita gives besides the above interpretation of the Sftra from Haradatta’s Gautamtya Mitakshar4, another one, according to which it means, ‘ Let him not forsake his own family and enter another one (by adoption and so forth).’ A third 60 VASISHTHA. XI, 9. 9. Let him not step over a stretched rope to which a calf (or cow) is tied. 10. Let him not look at the sun when he rises or sets. 11. Let him not void excrements or urine in water, 12. Nor spit into it. 13. Let him ease himself, after wrapping up his head and covering the ground with grass that is not fit to be used at a sacrifice, and turning towards the north in the day-time, turning towards the south at night, sitting with his face towards the north in the twilight. 14. Now they quote also (the following verses): ‘But Snatakas shall always wear a lower garment and an upper one, two sacrificial threads, (shall carry) a staff and a vessel filled with water.’
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1Identical with Vishnu LXXXII, 20, and Manu III, 237. 34. Manu V, 35. 35. Identical with Manu III, 235. 37. Vishvu LXIX, 2-4. XI, 43. SACRIFICES. 55 course with a woman after offering or having dined at a Sraddha, feed during a month from that (day) on his semen.’ 38. ‘A child that is born from (intercourse immediately) after offering a Sraddha or partaking of a funeral repast, is unable to acquire sacred learning and becomes short-lived.’ 39. ‘The father and the grandfather, likewise the great-grandfather, beset a descendant who is born to them, just as birds (fly to) a fig tree ;’ 40. ‘ (Saying), “ He will offer to us funeral repasts with honey and meat, with vegetables, with milk and with messes made of milk, both in the rainy season and under the constellation Magh4f.”’ 41. ‘ The ancestors always rejoice at a descendant who lengthens the line, who is zealous in performing funeral sacrifices, and who is rich in (images of the) gods and (virtuous) Brahmama (guests).’ 42. ‘The manes consider him to be their (true) descendant who offers (to them) food at Gay4, and (by the virtue of that gift) they grant him (blessings), just as husbandmen (produce grain) on well-ploughed (fields).’ 43. He shall offer (a Sraddha) both on the full moon days of the months Sravava and AgrahAyama and on the Anvash/akt. 39-40. Vishau LXXVIII, 51-53. 41. ‘Who lengthens the line,’ i.e. who himself begets sons. Read instead of nuyantam pitrékarmani (v. 1]. muyantam and tr?pantah), ‘udyatam.’ 42. Vishnu LXXXV, 4, 66-67. 43. SrAvana, i.e. July-August; Agrahayama, i.e. Margasirsha or November—December. Anvash/aki means the day following the Ash/akA, or eighth day, i.e. the ninth day of the dark halves of Margasirsha, Pausha, Magha, and Phalguna. The form of the word is usually anvash/aka. 56 VASISHTHA. XI, 44. 44. There is no restriction as to time, if (particularly suitable) materials and (particularly holy) Brahmazas are at hand, or (if the sacrificer is) near (a particularly sacred) place. 45. A Brahmaza must necessarily kindle the three sacred fires. 46. He shall offer (in them) the full and new moon sacrifices, the (half-yearly) Agrayana Ishdi, the AKAturmAsya-sacrifice, the (half-yearly) sacrifices at which animals are slain, and the (annual) Somasacrifices. 47. For all this is (particularly) enjoined (in the Veda), and called by way of laudation ‘a debt.’ 48. For it is declared in the Veda, ‘A Brahmaza is born, loaded with three debts,’ (and further, ‘He owes) sacrifices to the gods, a son to the manes, the study of the Veda to the Azshis; therefore he is free from debt who has offered sacrifices, who has begotten a son, and who has lived as a student (with a teacher).’ 49. Let him (ordinarily) initiate a Brahmaza in the eighth (year) after conception, 50. A Kshatriya in the eleventh year after conception, 51. A Vaisya in the twelfth year after conception. 52. The staff of a Brahmama (student may) optionally (be made) of Palasa wood,
2Let him (ordinarily) initiate a Brahmaza in the eighth (year) after conception, 50. A Kshatriya in the eleventh year after conception, 51. A Vaisya in the twelfth year after conception. 52. The staff of a Brahmama (student may) optionally (be made) of Palasa wood, 44. Gautama XV, 5. 45. Vishau LIX, 2. 46. Vishwu LIX, 4~9. 47. Manu IV, 257. I read rzzasamstutam with MS. E. 48. Taitt.Samh.VI, 3, 10,5; Satapatha-brahmama I, 7, 2, 11. 49-51. Vishnu XXVII, 15-17. 52-54. Vishau XXVII, 29. Regarding other kinds of sticks, see Gautama I, 22-24. XI, 68. INITIATION. 57 53. (That) of a Kshatriya optionally of the wood of the Banyan tree, 54. (That) of a Vaisya optionally of Udumbara wood. 55. (The staff) of a Brahmaza shall (be of such a length as to) reach the hair, 56. (That) of a Kshatriya the forehead, 57. (That) of a Vaisya the (tip of the) nose. 58. The girdle of a Brahmawa shall be made of Muiaga grass, 59. A bowstring (shall be that) of a Kshatriya, 60. (That) of a Vaisya shall be made of hempen threads. 61. The upper garment of a Brahmama (shall be) the skin of a black antelope, 62. (That) of a Kshatriya the skin of a spotted deer, 63. (That) of a Vaisya a cow-skin or the hide of a he-goat. 64. The (lower) garment of a Brahmama (shall be) white (and) unblemished, 65. (That) of a Kshatriya dyed with madder, 66. (That) of a Vaisya dyed with turmeric, or made of (raw) silk; 67. Or (a dress made of) undyed (cotton) cloth may be worn by (students of ) all (castes). 68. A Braéhmaza shall ask for alms placing (the word) ‘ Lady’ first, 55-57. Vishvu XXVII, 22. 58-60. Vishwu XXVII, 18. 61-63. Vishnu XXVII, 20. ; 64-67. Vishnu XXVII, 19; Gautama I, 17-21. ‘Unblemished,’ i.e. new, without holes and seams. 68-70. Vishnu XXVII, 25. I.e. ‘Lady, give alms;’ ‘Give, O lady, alms ;’ and ‘Give alms, lady,’ 58 VASISHTHA. XI, 69. 69. A Kshatriya placing (the word) ‘ Lady’ in the middle, 70. A Vaisya placing (the word) ‘Lady’ at the end (of the formula). 71. The time (for the initiation) of a Brahmama has not passed until the completion of the sixteenth year, 72. (For that) of a Kshatriya until the completion of the twenty-second, 73. (For that) of a Vaisya until the completion of the twenty-fourth. 74. After that they become ‘men whose SAvitrt has been neglected.’ 75. Let him not initiate such men, nor teach them, nor sacrifice for them; let them not form matrimonial alliances (with such outcasts). 76. A man whose Savitri has not been performed, may undergo the Uddalaka-penance. 77. Let him subsist during two months on barleygruel, during one month on milk, during half a month on curds of two-milk whey, during eight days on clarified butter, during six days on alms given without asking, (and) during three days on water, and let him fast for one day and one night. 78. (Or) he may go to bathe (with the priests) at the end of an Asvamedha (horse-sacrifice). 79. Or he may offer a Vratya-stoma. 41-73. Vishnu XXVII, 26.
378. (Or) he may go to bathe (with the priests) at the end of an Asvamedha (horse-sacrifice). 79. Or he may offer a Vratya-stoma. 41-73. Vishnu XXVII, 26. 44. Vishnu XXVII, 27. SAvitri, literally ‘the Az sacred to Savitrz’ (Rig-veda III, 62, 10), means here ‘the initiation,’ see Gautama I, 12 note. 75. Apastamba I, 1, 1, 28. The plural vivahayeyuf, ‘let them (not) form matrimonial alliances,’ indicates that orthodox Brahmavas must neither give their daughters to PatitasAvitrikas nor take the daughters of such persons. 78. Gautama XIX, 9. 79. Gautama XIX, 8. XII, 8. DUTIES OF A SNATAKA. 59 Cuapter XII. 1. Now, therefore, the duties of a Snataka (will be explained). 2. Let him not beg from anybody except from a king and a pupil. 3. But let him ask, if pressed by hunger, for some (small gift) only, a cultivated or uncultivated field, a cow, a goat or a sheep, (or) at the last extremity, for gold, grain or food. 4. But the injunction (given by those who know the law) is, ‘A Snataka shall not be faint with hunger.’ 5. Let him not dwell together with a person whose clothes are foul; 6. (Let him not cohabit) with a woman during her courses, 7. Nor with an unfit one. 8. Let him not be a stay-at-home. XII. 1. ‘Now’ marks the beginning of a new topic. ‘ Therefore,’ i.e. because the duties of a Snataka have to be taught after those of a student. 2. Manu IV, 33; Gautama IX, 63. 3. Manu X, 113-114. 4. Manu IV, 34; Vishau III, 79. 5. Krishnapandita, whom I have followed in the translation of this Sfitra, thinks that it indicates the obligation of wearing clean clothes, see e.g. Vishau LXXI, 9. It seems to me, however, probable that its real sense is, ‘Let him not cohabit with a woman during her courses,’ and that the next Satra has to be read naéragasvalaya, ‘ Nor with one of immature age.’ 4. ‘An unfit one,’ i.e. ‘one of low caste’ (hin4).—Kyishnapandita. Probably a sick wife is meant, Gautama IX, 28. 8. Gautama IX, 53. Krishnapandita gives besides the above interpretation of the Sftra from Haradatta’s Gautamtya Mitakshar4, another one, according to which it means, ‘ Let him not forsake his own family and enter another one (by adoption and so forth).’ A third 60 VASISHTHA. XI, 9. 9. Let him not step over a stretched rope to which a calf (or cow) is tied. 10. Let him not look at the sun when he rises or sets. 11. Let him not void excrements or urine in water, 12. Nor spit into it. 13. Let him ease himself, after wrapping up his head and covering the ground with grass that is not fit to be used at a sacrifice, and turning towards the north in the day-time, turning towards the south at night, sitting with his face towards the north in the twilight. 14. Now they quote also (the following verses): ‘But Snatakas shall always wear a lower garment and an upper one, two sacrificial threads, (shall carry) a staff and a vessel filled with water.’
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