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Translation of The law-book of Marīci — fragments (Marīcismṛti (fragments))
- Language
- English
- Extent
- 24 passages, 715 words
- Text
- complete digital text
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- pramana · English by Claude Opus 5.5 (Pramāṇa, L2), not reviewed · CC BY 4.0
Contents
- 1 Quoted passages — 24 parts
Text
Quoted passages
1.1
For those killed by poison, weapons, wild beasts, snakes, animals or Brahmins, the (annual) rite is to be performed on the fourteenth; for others it is condemned.
1.2
The new moon of the month Nabhas is the time prescribed for gathering darbha; darbha gathered then does not grow stale and may be used again and again.
1.3
In salt, honey and meat, flowers, roots and fruits, vegetables, wood and grass, water, curds, ghee and milk, sesame, herbs and skins, cooked and uncooked food taken by oneself, and in all goods for sale, there is no impurity from a death or a birth.
1.4
When an obstacle to the śrāddha arises, or the day of death is not known, it is to be performed on the eleventh, especially of the dark fortnight.
1.5
At a birth or death of (children) of a woman previously married to another, three days; one day for the sapiṇḍas …
1.6
(The libation) is to be given with open hand; one should not show a gesture there; the sesame is to be held in the left hand, leaving the right hand free.
1.7
Not with hands outside the knees, not in haste, not on a raised seat nor standing, not in sandals nor absent-minded, (but) pure and attentive — sipping thus, a twice-born man is always pure and cleansed.
1.8
Whether of the same gotra or another, a son begotten by rule should first offer the rice-ball and the śrāddha to the owner of the field, and afterwards to the begetter.
1.9
The monthly śrāddha on the day of death, the annual one, and those on the beginnings of the Manu-ages and of the yugas, (are to be done) in both months (when there is an intercalary month).
1.10
When the lunar day of the annual śrāddha covers the afternoon on two days, the great seers commend the one joined with the greater (part).
1.11
The fruit declared for a śrāddha on the lunar mansions beginning with Kṛttikā is held to be the same on the yogas beginning with Viṣkambha.
1.12
One without the sacred fire, one away from home, and one whose wife is menstruating should perform the śrāddha with uncooked food — but not on the day of death.
1.13
A girl given with water but not yet handed over is to be known as unconsecrated; (on her death) three days' impurity is prescribed for both (families).
1.14
Fuel-sticks are to be offered with their tips to the east, unsplit in optional rites, and in optional rites green with leaves; the reverse for one who seeks to harm. Sticks rotten, split, short, crooked, hollow, thin, too long, too thick or worm-eaten destroy the success of the rite.
1.15
On the seventh lunar day, on a Sunday, at home and on one's birthday, one who wishes for servants, sons and wife should not offer libations with sesame.
1.16
I shall declare in order the deities of each (of the five cow-products): Varuṇa is the deity of the urine, Agni of the dung, Soma of the milk, Vāyu of the curds, the Sun of the ghee.
1.17
In a śrāddha with uncooked food the mantras are to be adapted for the invitation, the svadhā-call and the dismissal, not for the acts concerning the food: this is the rule.
1.18
On a miscarriage, the mother (is impure) for as many days as months, the father and the rest for three days.
1.19
On an early miscarriage (impurity lasts) as many days as months; for the highest class three days, for a Kṣatriya four, for a Vaiśya five, for a Śūdra eight: this is the purification declared.
1.20
Giving (in marriage) a girl of eight one reaches the vault of heaven, one of nine Vaikuṇṭha, a maiden (of ten) the world of Brahmā, but a menstruating girl the Raurava hell.
1.21
Where food dear to oneself is given with faith, naming the departed and the ancestors, that is called śrāddha.
1.22
A Brahmin whose ears are unpierced, one who is black, and one with hanging ears are carefully to be avoided at a śrāddha.
1.23
When the śrāddha of the twice-born is obstructed, a śrāddha with uncooked food is prescribed for the fixed ones such as the new-moon śrāddha, except the monthly and annual ones.
1.24
Whether on the ground or drawn up, cold or hot, the water of the Gaṅgā purifies sin up to the point of death.