Gautama Samhita  Original Text with a Literal Prose English Translation

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Gautama Samhita Original Text with a Literal Prose English Translation

1908

All regulations and injunctions of the S' tistras should be followed by a person from after the ceremony of his investiture with the holy thread and since then he should duly attend to the study of the Vidas and to the kindling of the sacred fire practise truthfulness and perform the rites of A'chamanam. [...] Firmly devoted to the propitiation of the gads of the Pitris and of th4 celestial sages he is free to ser‘ept the hospitality of ail except the fallen and the *graved. [...] should be inflicted in consideration of the heinouness of a crime and of the bodily strength of a criminal or othe.rwise according to the dictates of persens we1versed in tke Vedas. [...] A man remains unclean for three clays on the death of a spiritual preceptor or of a wife or son of a spiritual preceptor or of a Yajambta or of a disciple. [...] A member of a superior caste touching the dead body of a member of an inferior caste and vice versa should' observe a period of ucleanness laid down in respect of the member of the caste of the deceased.
philosophy religion
Pages
69
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144633
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Manmatha Dutt view
Frontmatter
i-ii Manmatha Dutt view
Gautama Samhita
655-720 Manmatha Dutt view

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