{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe14/sbe1425.htm","path":"hin/sbe14/sbe1425.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe14/sbe1425.htm","text":"1. Now, indeed, man (in) this (world) speaks an untruth, or sacrifices for men unworthy to offer a sacrifice, or accepts what ought not to be accepted, or eats forbidden food, or practises what ought not to be practised. 1\n2. They are in doubt if he shall perform a penance for such (a deed), or if he shall not do it.\n3. (Some) declare that he shall not do it,\n4. Because the deed does not perish.\n5. (The correct view is, that) he shall perform (a penance), because it is enjoined in the revealed texts, 5\n6. 'He who offers a horse-sacrifice conquers all sin, he destroys the guilt of the murder of a Br\u00e2hmana.'\n7. (Moreover), 'Let an Abhisasta offer a Gosava or an Agnishtut-sacrifice,'\n8. Reciting the Veda, austerity, a sacrifice, fasting, giving gifts are the means for expiating such a (blamable act).\n9. (The purificatory texts are) the Upanishads, the Ved\u00e2ntas, the Samhit\u00e2-text of all the Vedas, the (Anuv\u00e2kas called) Madhu, the (hymn of) Aghamarshana, 9\nthe Atharvasiras, the (Anuv\u00e2kas called) Rudras, the Purusha-hymn, the two S\u00e2mans called R\u00e2gana and Rauhineya, the K\u00fbshm\u00e2ndas, the P\u00e2vam\u00e2n\u00ees, and the S\u00e2vitr\u00ee,\n10. Now they quote also (the following verse): 'He who performs once in each season the offerings to Vaisv\u00e2nara and Vratapati and the Pavitreshti sanctifies ten ancestors.' 10\n11. To live on milk alone, as if one were fasting, to eat fruit only, (to live on) barley gruel prepared of a handful of grain, to eat gold, to drink Soma (are modes of subsistence which) purify. 11\n12. All mountains, all rivers, holy lakes, places of pilgrimage, the dwellings of Rishis, cowpens, and temples of the gods (are) places (which destroy sin).\n13. A year, a month, twenty-four days, twelve days, six days, three days, a day and a night are the periods (for penances).\n14. These (acts) may be optionally performed when no (particular penance) has been prescribed,\n15. (Viz.) for great sins difficult (penances), and for trivial faults easy ones.\n16. The Krikkhra and the Atikrikkhra (as well as) the K\u00e2ndr\u00e2yana are penances for all (offences).\n115:1 XXII. As this chapter is almost identical with and probably copied from Baudh\u00e2yana III, 10, and Gautama XIX, the division of the S\u00fbtras has not been made in accordance with Krishnapandita's commentary, but agrees with that of the chapter in Gautama's Dharmas\u00e2stra. The notes to the translation of the p. 116 latter work must be consulted for the explanation of the more difficult passages.\n116:5-7. The text appears here to be corrupt. After S\u00fbtra 5, Baudh\u00e2yana III, 10, 6 (Gautama XIX, 7), Punah stomena yageta punah savanam\u00e2y\u00e2nt\u00eeti vig\u00f1\u00e2yate,' It is declared in the Veda, \"Let him offer a Punahstoma-sacrifice, (those who offer it) again come to partake of (the libations of) Soma,\"' has been left out. This omission caused the insertion of the words tasm\u00e2kkhrutinidarsan\u00e2t [darsan\u00e2t, Bh. F.], ('because it is enjoined in the revealed texts,') at the end of Sutra 5. The proof that the sixth S\u00fbtra of Baudh\u00e2yana has been accidentally omitted is furnished by the fact That several MSS. of Vasishtha read iti ka after yo \u2019svamedhena yagate (Vas. XXII, 6). This ka has no meaning, except if another Vedic passage preceded Sutra. 6. In order to escape this difficulty, Krishnapandita writes yo \u2019svamedhena yagata iti, and begins the next S\u00fbtra with iti ka, which he explains by 'moreover.'\n116:9 Krishnapandita gives before 'Ved\u00e2ntas' another word ved\u00e2dayah, which he explains by 'the Vedas, Smritis, and Pur\u00e2nas.'\n117:10 Krishnapandita takes the last word dasap\u00fbrusham to mean ten ancestors and ten descendants.\n117:11 'As if one were fasting,' i.e. in small quantities.--Krishnapandita.","title":"SBE 14: Vasishtha: Chapter XXII","type":"page"}