Institutes of Hindu Law: Or, The Ordinances of Menu, According to the Gloss of Cullʹuca. Comprising the Indian System of Duties, Religious and Civil |
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... impure men , let no Bráhmen , even in distress for subsistence , ever form a connexion in law , either by the study of the Veda , or by affinity . 41. Let students in theology wear for their man- tles , the hides of black antelopes , of ...
... impure men , let no Bráhmen , even in distress for subsistence , ever form a connexion in law , either by the study of the Veda , or by affinity . 41. Let students in theology wear for their man- tles , the hides of black antelopes , of ...
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... impure . 6 125. Knowing this collection of rules , let the learn- ed read the Véda on every lawful day , having first repeated in order the pure essence of the three Vedas , namely , the pranava , the vyáhritis , and the gáyatri . 126 ...
... impure . 6 125. Knowing this collection of rules , let the learn- ed read the Véda on every lawful day , having first repeated in order the pure essence of the three Vedas , namely , the pranava , the vyáhritis , and the gáyatri . 126 ...
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... impure quadrupeds . 167. He , who , through ignorance of the law , sheds blood from the body of a Bráhmen , not engaged in battle , shall feel excessive pain in his future life : 168. As many particles of dust as the blood shall roll up ...
... impure quadrupeds . 167. He , who , through ignorance of the law , sheds blood from the body of a Bráhmen , not engaged in battle , shall feel excessive pain in his future life : 168. As many particles of dust as the blood shall roll up ...
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... impure on the birth of a child the law is the same . : 6 " 59. By a dead body , the sapindas are rendered impure in the law for ten days , or until the fourth 6 day , 6 6 V. day , when the bones have been 152 ON DIET , PURIFICATION ,
... impure on the birth of a child the law is the same . : 6 " 59. By a dead body , the sapindas are rendered impure in the law for ten days , or until the fourth 6 day , 6 6 V. day , when the bones have been 152 ON DIET , PURIFICATION ,
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... impure state . 6 64. In one day and night , added to nights three times three , the sapindas are purified after touching the corpse ; but the samánódacas , in three days . 65. A pupil in theology , having performed the ceremony of ...
... impure state . 6 64. In one day and night , added to nights three times three , the sapindas are purified after touching the corpse ; but the samánódacas , in three days . 65. A pupil in theology , having performed the ceremony of ...
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ablution acts ancestors anchorets animals Asuras attain beatitude begotten BHRIGU birth body born Bráh BRAHMA Bráhmen brother called cattle ceremony CHAP child clarified butter committed considered constantly creatures Cshatriya damsel daughter death declared deities Dévas divine duties eaten elephantiasis equal expiation father flesh flesh-meat fruit Gandharvas gayatrì gift give giver gods grain guest holy fire holy texts honour house-keeper hundred panas husband impure INDRA kinsmen learned let the king live lord manes marriage married MENU mother night nuptial oblations to fire obsequies offence offering ordained paternal penance perform person Pitris preceptor priest publick punishment pure purified read the Véda received religious rice rites roots rule sacraments sacred sacrifice sages scripture servile class spirits sráddha subsistence Súdra thing tion triliteral twice-born Upanishads Vaisya VARUNA Veda VIII virtue virtuous wealth whole wife woman women YAMA СНАР
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Page 60 - Let him chuse for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully like a phenicopteros, or like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and in size ; whose body has exquisite softness.
Page 284 - Three persons, a wife, a son, and a slave, are declared by law to have (in general) no wealth exclusively their own ; the wealth which they may earn is (regularly) acquired for the man to whom they belong.
Page 168 - Let her emaciate her body by living voluntarily on pure flowers, roots, and fruit ; but let her not, when her lord is deceased, even pronounce the name of another man. "Let her continue till death forgiving all injuries, performing harsh duties, avoiding every sensual pleasure, and cheerfully practising the incomparable rules of virtue, which have been followed by such women as were devoted to one only husband.
Page 16 - Brahman springs to light, he is born ' above the world, the chief of all creatures, assigned to ' guard the treasury of duties, religious and civil.
Page 67 - When money or goods are given to damsels, whose kinsmen receive them not for their own use, it is no sale : it is merely a token of courtesy and affection to the brides. 55. Married women must be honoured and adorned by their fathers and brethren, by their husbands, and by the brethren of their husbands, if they seek abundant prosperity : 56.
Page 3 - In that egg the great power sat inactive a whole year of the Creator, at the close of which, by his thought alone, he caused the egg to divide itself. " 13. And from its two divisions he framed the heaven abate and the earth beneath : in the midst he placed the subtile ether, the eight regions, and the permanent receptacle of waters.
Page 168 - But, a widow, who, from a wish to bear children, slights her deceased husband by marrying again, brings disgrace on herself here below, and shall be excluded from the seat of her lord.
Page 75 - Grass and earth to sit on, water to wash the ' feet, and, fourthly, affectionate speech are at no time ' deficient in the mansions of the good, although they
Page 110 - Over a string, to which a calf is tied, let him not ' step ; nor let him run, while it rains ; nor let him look ' on his own image in water : this is a settled rule.
Page 183 - A mansion infested by age and by sorrow, the seat of malady, harassed with pains, haunted with the quality of darkness,* and incapable of standing long ; such a mansion of the vital soul let its occupier always cheerfully quit : 78. As a tree leaves the bank of a river, when it falls in, or as a bird leaves the branch of a tree at his pleasure, thus he, who leaves his body by necessity or by legal choice, is delivered from the ravening shark, or crocodile, of the world.