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117. If he daily adds to his food one mouthful during the bright (half of the month) and diminishes it daily by one mouthful during the dark (half of the month), and keeps two fasts in the two halves of the month, that is called a KAndrdyama. 18. If, with concentrated mind, a Brdhmama eats four mouthfuls in the morning and four mouthfuls when the sun has set, he will perform the X4ndréyawa of children. 13. Vasish4ta XXVII, 13. 14, Vasishtha XXVII, 14. 15. Vishvu XLVI, 18. 16. Vishzu XLVI, 20. 17. Vasish‘ha XXVII, 21; see above, III, 8. 18. Vishzu XLVII, 8. 326 BAUDHAYANA. TV, 5. 19. If, self-restrained, he daily eats, during a month, at midday eight mouthfuls of food, fit for a sacrifice, he will perform the AAndrayaza of ascetics. 20. But a Brahmaza who eats anyhow, during a month, thrice eighty mouthfuls of food, fit for a sacrifice, goes to the world of the moon. 21. As the rising moon frees the world from the fear of darkness, even so a Brahmaza who performs a KAndrayaza removes the fear of sin. 22. He who lives one day on (rice)-grains, three days on oil-cakes, five days on buttermilk mixed with water, seven days on water, and (one day) on air, (performs) the guilt-destroying Tulapurusha. 23. Living on barley-gruel (yavaka) removes the guilt of corporeal beings after seven days, and so does a fast of seven days; that has been recognised by wise men. 24. By dressing in wet clothes, by living in the open air, and by exposing himself to the sun during the light halves of the months Pausha (December— January), Bhadrapada (August-September), and Gyeshtda (May-June), a Brahmama is freed from (all) sin excepting crimes causing loss of caste (patantya). 25. (If one swallows) cows’ urine, cowdung, milk, 19. Vishvu XLVII, 7. 20, Vishnu XLVII, 9. Govinda places this verse before Stra 19. 22. Vishnu XLVII, 22. 24. The meaning is that the performer is to stand in wet clothes during the first half of the month Pausha, in the cold season; to live in the open air during the first half of Bhadrapada, in the rainy season ; and to allow himself to be broiled by the sun in Gyeshéha, the hottest time of the hot season. 25. I doubt if the reading of Govinda, yava#amena (explained IV, 5. RITES SECURING SUCCESS. 327 sour milk, clarified butter, and a decoction of Kusa grass, mixed with barley gruel, that is the most sanctifying Brahmakdréa. 26. He who fasts on the new moon day and eats sesamum grains on the full moon day, will be freed in the course of a year from the sins which he committed in the bright and the dark halves of the month. 27. He who lives on alms obtained from Agni- hotrins is purified in one month; (he who obtains his food) from a Y4y4vara, in ten days; he who receives it from a hermit in the forest, in five days;
227. He who lives on alms obtained from Agni- hotrins is purified in one month; (he who obtains his food) from a Y4y4vara, in ten days; he who receives it from a hermit in the forest, in five days; 28. (He who lives) on food given by a person who has a store sufficient for one day only, will be purified in one day; he who drinks water given by a person subsisting by the Kapota-vvztti (pigeonlife), is purified in three (days). 29. If one recites the whole Azg-veda, Yagurveda, and SAma-veda, or thrice reads one of thesé Vedas and fasts, (that is) a most efficient means of purification. 30. Now if one is in haste to finish, one may live on air during a day, and pass the night standing in water, that is equal (in efficacy) to a Pragdpatya (Krikkhra). . 31. He who at sunrise mutters the Gayatrt one thousand and eight times, is free from all sin, provided he has not slain a learned Brahmaza. by yavagfz) samyuktam, ‘mixed with barley-gruel,’ is correct. All . the MSS. of the text have yavianim ekasamyukto, which I do not understand. Govinda has Brahmakrzkkhrak instead of Brahmakfrfak, But see the Petersb. Dict. s. v. brahmak(irka. 28. Regarding the Kapota-vritti, see above, III, 2, 15. 30. Vasish‘ha XXVII, 17. Govinda adds after kartum, ‘to finish,’ ‘ the rites connected with the Vedas’ (Sfitra 1). 328 BAUDHAYANA. TV, 5. 32. He who distributes food, speaks the truth, and has compassion on all living beings, is more (holy) than all those who have been purified by the restraints mentioned above. Prasna IV, ApnyAya 6, 1. The (eleven Anuvakas called) Rudras together with (the ten hymns) seen by Madhudéf/andas, the Géyatri with the syllable Om, and likewise the seven Vy4hrvztis (are the texts) which should be muttered (and) which remove guilt. 2. The Mvzgareshdi, the Pavitresh/i, the Trihavis, the P4vamant are the Ish¢is which efface sin, if they are (each) combined with the VaisvAnara (Dvadasakapéla). 3-4. Learn, also, the following most excellent secret; he will be freed from all sins of all kinds who sprinkles himself with water, reciting the Payitras, who mutters the eleven (Anuvakas called) Rudras, who offers burnt oblations of butter, reciting the Payitras, and gives gold, a cow, and sesamum (to Braéhmamas). 5. He who partakes of boiled barley-gruel, mixed with cow’s urine, liquid cowdung, sour milk, milk, and butter, is quickly freed from sin. 6. Both he who has begotten a child on a Sidra woman and he who has had connexion with a female, 6. 4. The hymns are Rig-veda I, 1-10. 2. Regarding the MrgareshA, see Taitt. Samhita IV, 7,15. In explanation of the term Trihavis, Govinda adds the word Savaneshé, 5. Yavaka, translated, as usually, by barley-gruel, can also denote, as Govinda points out, other dishes made of barley, 6. See aboye, II, 1, 2, 7, 10, 13-14. IV, 7. RITES SECURING SUCCESS. 329 intercourse with whom is forbidden (agamyé4), are purified (if they live) according to this rule during seven days.
3See aboye, II, 1, 2, 7, 10, 13-14. IV, 7. RITES SECURING SUCCESS. 329 intercourse with whom is forbidden (agamyé4), are purified (if they live) according to this rule during seven days. 7. (That is likewise) the remedy when one has swallowed semen, ordure, and urine, or eaten the food of persons whose food must not be eaten, (and also) when a younger brother has kindled the sacred fire, has offered a Srauta sacrifice, or taken a wife before the elder. 8. He who has committed even a great number of (wicked) actions, excepting mortal sins, will be freed (by that rule) from all guilt. That is the statement of the virtuous. 9, But (this) ordinance, which is based on the authority of the sacred texts, is stated (to be that) through which Bharadvaga and others became equal to Brahman. 10. Through the performance of these rites a Braéhmasa, whose heart is full of peace, obtains whatever desires he may have in his heart. Prasna IV, ApuyAya 7. 1. The wishes of a Brahmaza who has left off evil deeds and is (ever) engaged in holy works are fulfilled even without (the practice of) restraints. 2. Upright Brahmawas quickly accomplish what- 7. See above, II, 1,1, 21, 39-40.- I follow the reading of M. and of the commentary, paryadhanegyayor etat parivitte 4a bheshagam. The reading of the Dekhan MSS. is etat patite Aaiva bhoganam, ‘that food must be eaten...., and when one has become qn outcast.’ 7. 1. Yantrani, ‘restraints,’ i.e. Krze&hras, the fasts, and other practices described in the preceding chapters. 330 BAUDHAYANA. IV, 7. ever they wish in their hearts, if they are purified by honest actions. 3. Thus a wise man should practise those restraints until he has purified his bodily frame. 4. He who has been purified by those restraints should, after fasting three (days and) nights, begin the performance of that sacred rite through which he wishes to gain the fulfilment of his desires,— 5. (Reciting) the Kshapavitra, the Sahasraksha, the Mvzgara, the two Gamas (called) Amhomué, the PAvamants, the Kishm4azdis, and the Aas, addressed to Vaisvanara, 6. (And) offering with (each of) these (Mantras) boiled rice and clarified butter during seven days, in the morning, at midday, and in the evening, keeping a rigid silence, living on food fit for a sacrifice, restraining his senses and his actions, 7. He is freed from all crimes, even mortal sins, after looking on a cross-road at a pot filled with water, (and reciting the text), ‘Simhe me manyudZ.’ 8. He is freed from the multitude of sins, committed unintentionally in old age, in youth, and in infancy, and even from those belonging to former births; 9. After feeding at the end (of the seven days) Bréhmazas with milk and rice, well mixed with
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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
117. If he daily adds to his food one mouthful during the bright (half of the month) and diminishes it daily by one mouthful during the dark (half of the month), and keeps two fasts in the two halves of the month, that is called a KAndrdyama. 18. If, with concentrated mind, a Brdhmama eats four mouthfuls in the morning and four mouthfuls when the sun has set, he will perform the X4ndréyawa of children. 13. Vasish4ta XXVII, 13. 14, Vasishtha XXVII, 14. 15. Vishvu XLVI, 18. 16. Vishzu XLVI, 20. 17. Vasish‘ha XXVII, 21; see above, III, 8. 18. Vishzu XLVII, 8. 326 BAUDHAYANA. TV, 5. 19. If, self-restrained, he daily eats, during a month, at midday eight mouthfuls of food, fit for a sacrifice, he will perform the AAndrayaza of ascetics. 20. But a Brahmaza who eats anyhow, during a month, thrice eighty mouthfuls of food, fit for a sacrifice, goes to the world of the moon. 21. As the rising moon frees the world from the fear of darkness, even so a Brahmaza who performs a KAndrayaza removes the fear of sin. 22. He who lives one day on (rice)-grains, three days on oil-cakes, five days on buttermilk mixed with water, seven days on water, and (one day) on air, (performs) the guilt-destroying Tulapurusha. 23. Living on barley-gruel (yavaka) removes the guilt of corporeal beings after seven days, and so does a fast of seven days; that has been recognised by wise men. 24. By dressing in wet clothes, by living in the open air, and by exposing himself to the sun during the light halves of the months Pausha (December— January), Bhadrapada (August-September), and Gyeshtda (May-June), a Brahmama is freed from (all) sin excepting crimes causing loss of caste (patantya). 25. (If one swallows) cows’ urine, cowdung, milk, 19. Vishvu XLVII, 7. 20, Vishnu XLVII, 9. Govinda places this verse before Stra 19. 22. Vishnu XLVII, 22. 24. The meaning is that the performer is to stand in wet clothes during the first half of the month Pausha, in the cold season; to live in the open air during the first half of Bhadrapada, in the rainy season ; and to allow himself to be broiled by the sun in Gyeshéha, the hottest time of the hot season. 25. I doubt if the reading of Govinda, yava#amena (explained IV, 5. RITES SECURING SUCCESS. 327 sour milk, clarified butter, and a decoction of Kusa grass, mixed with barley gruel, that is the most sanctifying Brahmakdréa. 26. He who fasts on the new moon day and eats sesamum grains on the full moon day, will be freed in the course of a year from the sins which he committed in the bright and the dark halves of the month. 27. He who lives on alms obtained from Agni- hotrins is purified in one month; (he who obtains his food) from a Y4y4vara, in ten days; he who receives it from a hermit in the forest, in five days;
227. He who lives on alms obtained from Agni- hotrins is purified in one month; (he who obtains his food) from a Y4y4vara, in ten days; he who receives it from a hermit in the forest, in five days; 28. (He who lives) on food given by a person who has a store sufficient for one day only, will be purified in one day; he who drinks water given by a person subsisting by the Kapota-vvztti (pigeonlife), is purified in three (days). 29. If one recites the whole Azg-veda, Yagurveda, and SAma-veda, or thrice reads one of thesé Vedas and fasts, (that is) a most efficient means of purification. 30. Now if one is in haste to finish, one may live on air during a day, and pass the night standing in water, that is equal (in efficacy) to a Pragdpatya (Krikkhra). . 31. He who at sunrise mutters the Gayatrt one thousand and eight times, is free from all sin, provided he has not slain a learned Brahmaza. by yavagfz) samyuktam, ‘mixed with barley-gruel,’ is correct. All . the MSS. of the text have yavianim ekasamyukto, which I do not understand. Govinda has Brahmakrzkkhrak instead of Brahmakfrfak, But see the Petersb. Dict. s. v. brahmak(irka. 28. Regarding the Kapota-vritti, see above, III, 2, 15. 30. Vasish‘ha XXVII, 17. Govinda adds after kartum, ‘to finish,’ ‘ the rites connected with the Vedas’ (Sfitra 1). 328 BAUDHAYANA. TV, 5. 32. He who distributes food, speaks the truth, and has compassion on all living beings, is more (holy) than all those who have been purified by the restraints mentioned above. Prasna IV, ApnyAya 6, 1. The (eleven Anuvakas called) Rudras together with (the ten hymns) seen by Madhudéf/andas, the Géyatri with the syllable Om, and likewise the seven Vy4hrvztis (are the texts) which should be muttered (and) which remove guilt. 2. The Mvzgareshdi, the Pavitresh/i, the Trihavis, the P4vamant are the Ish¢is which efface sin, if they are (each) combined with the VaisvAnara (Dvadasakapéla). 3-4. Learn, also, the following most excellent secret; he will be freed from all sins of all kinds who sprinkles himself with water, reciting the Payitras, who mutters the eleven (Anuvakas called) Rudras, who offers burnt oblations of butter, reciting the Payitras, and gives gold, a cow, and sesamum (to Braéhmamas). 5. He who partakes of boiled barley-gruel, mixed with cow’s urine, liquid cowdung, sour milk, milk, and butter, is quickly freed from sin. 6. Both he who has begotten a child on a Sidra woman and he who has had connexion with a female, 6. 4. The hymns are Rig-veda I, 1-10. 2. Regarding the MrgareshA, see Taitt. Samhita IV, 7,15. In explanation of the term Trihavis, Govinda adds the word Savaneshé, 5. Yavaka, translated, as usually, by barley-gruel, can also denote, as Govinda points out, other dishes made of barley, 6. See aboye, II, 1, 2, 7, 10, 13-14. IV, 7. RITES SECURING SUCCESS. 329 intercourse with whom is forbidden (agamyé4), are purified (if they live) according to this rule during seven days.
3See aboye, II, 1, 2, 7, 10, 13-14. IV, 7. RITES SECURING SUCCESS. 329 intercourse with whom is forbidden (agamyé4), are purified (if they live) according to this rule during seven days. 7. (That is likewise) the remedy when one has swallowed semen, ordure, and urine, or eaten the food of persons whose food must not be eaten, (and also) when a younger brother has kindled the sacred fire, has offered a Srauta sacrifice, or taken a wife before the elder. 8. He who has committed even a great number of (wicked) actions, excepting mortal sins, will be freed (by that rule) from all guilt. That is the statement of the virtuous. 9, But (this) ordinance, which is based on the authority of the sacred texts, is stated (to be that) through which Bharadvaga and others became equal to Brahman. 10. Through the performance of these rites a Braéhmasa, whose heart is full of peace, obtains whatever desires he may have in his heart. Prasna IV, ApuyAya 7. 1. The wishes of a Brahmaza who has left off evil deeds and is (ever) engaged in holy works are fulfilled even without (the practice of) restraints. 2. Upright Brahmawas quickly accomplish what- 7. See above, II, 1,1, 21, 39-40.- I follow the reading of M. and of the commentary, paryadhanegyayor etat parivitte 4a bheshagam. The reading of the Dekhan MSS. is etat patite Aaiva bhoganam, ‘that food must be eaten...., and when one has become qn outcast.’ 7. 1. Yantrani, ‘restraints,’ i.e. Krze&hras, the fasts, and other practices described in the preceding chapters. 330 BAUDHAYANA. IV, 7. ever they wish in their hearts, if they are purified by honest actions. 3. Thus a wise man should practise those restraints until he has purified his bodily frame. 4. He who has been purified by those restraints should, after fasting three (days and) nights, begin the performance of that sacred rite through which he wishes to gain the fulfilment of his desires,— 5. (Reciting) the Kshapavitra, the Sahasraksha, the Mvzgara, the two Gamas (called) Amhomué, the PAvamants, the Kishm4azdis, and the Aas, addressed to Vaisvanara, 6. (And) offering with (each of) these (Mantras) boiled rice and clarified butter during seven days, in the morning, at midday, and in the evening, keeping a rigid silence, living on food fit for a sacrifice, restraining his senses and his actions, 7. He is freed from all crimes, even mortal sins, after looking on a cross-road at a pot filled with water, (and reciting the text), ‘Simhe me manyudZ.’ 8. He is freed from the multitude of sins, committed unintentionally in old age, in youth, and in infancy, and even from those belonging to former births; 9. After feeding at the end (of the seven days) Bréhmazas with milk and rice, well mixed with
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