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translation) ### [3.6.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.3) vāpayeran nivartayeranvā \ > they may shave or they may refrain. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.4) śrutavatā tu vaptavyamevāsannidhāne 'pīti mataṃ bodhāyanasya kalpe \ > However, by one who has Vedic learning, \[the hair\] must certainly be shaved even if he is absent; such is the opinion in the ritual text of Baudhāyana. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.5) na samāvṛttā vaperannanyatra vihārādityeke \ > Those who have returned home after graduation should not shave except in the sacrificial enclosure, say some. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.6) mātari pitaryācārya iti trirātraṃ kṣāralavaṇavarjitabhojanamadhaḥśayanaṃ brahmacaryaṃ tryahaṃ ṣaḍahaṃ dvādaśāhaṃ saṃvatsaraṃ yāvadgrahaṇaṃ dvādaśāhāparārdham paramaguruṣvevamaghodakam itareṣu trirātram yāvajjīvaṃ pretapatnī \ > Upon \[the death of\] a mother, father, or teacher, there is food free from alkaline and salt, sleeping on the ground, and chastity for three nights; for three days, six days, twelve days, a year, as long as it takes to acquire \[learning\], or up to twelve days; in the case of foremost elders, there is water libation for the dead thus; in the case of others, for three nights; for as long as she lives in the case of the deceased's wife. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.7) atha yadyāhitāgniranyatra preyādādīpyamānairāhūyamānairvasīran yāvadasya śarīramagnibhiḥ samāgamayeran \ > Now, if one who has set up the sacred fires should die elsewhere, they should dwell while \[the fires\] are kept burning and invoked until they bring his body together with the fires. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.8) athaitadabhivānyāyai payo dohayitvā gārhapatye 'bhiviṣyandayitvāhavanīye 'bhiviṣyandayet \ > Then, having milked this milk of a cow whose calf is of another mother, having caused it to overflow on the Gārhapatya, he should cause it to overflow on the Āhavanīya. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.9) adhastāt samidhamāharantyupariṣṭāddhi devebhyo haranti iti vijñāyate \ > "They bring the kindling stick from below, for from above they bring \[it\] to the gods"—thus it is known \[from scripture\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.10) athainamādāyāntareṇa vedyutkarāvudagupanirhṛtya prasiddhamupoṣeyuḥ \ > Then, having taken him up and carried him out towards the north between the sacrificial altar and the rubbish heap, they should burn him in the established manner. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.11) atha yadyāhitāgniranyatra preyādudakānte trīnagnyagārānālikhya sakṛt praviśya nimīlya nigṛhya skandakṣiṇāntānādityamudīkṣet \ > Now, if one who has set up the sacred fires should die elsewhere, having drawn three firehouses at the water's edge, having entered once, having closed the eyes, and having restrained \[the breath\], he should look towards the sun, \[facing\] south with bowed shoulders. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.12) parikurvīta ca \ > And he should prepare \[it\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.13) anenaiva trirvideśasthe \ > In this very manner, three times for one who is in a foreign land. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.14) atha yadi dagdhaḥ syādasthīnyāhṛtyāntarvedi śarīrāṇāṃ kṛṣṇājine puruṣākṛtiṃ kṛtvā teṣūpari pātrāṇi citvā kuśataruṇakaiḥ praticchādya prasiddhamupoṣeyuḥ \ > Now, if he should be burned, having brought the bones, having made the shape of a man out of the bones on a black antelope skin inside the altar, having piled the sacrificial vessels on top of them, and having covered them with young kuśa shoots, they should burn him in the established manner. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.15) atha yadyasthīni na vindeta trayāṇāṃ ṣaṣṭiśatānāṃ parṇatsarūṇāmeva kṛṣṇājine puruṣākṛtiṃ kṛtvā teṣūpari pātrāṇi citvā kuśataruṇakaiḥ praticchādya prasiddhamupoṣeyuḥ \ > Now, if one cannot find the bones, having made the shape of a man out of three hundred and sixty leaf-stalks of palāśa on a black antelope skin, having piled the sacrificial vessels on top of them, and having covered them with young kuśa shoots, they should burn him in the established manner. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.16) āhitāgnimagnibhirdahanti yajñapātraiśca iti vijñāyate \ > "They burn one who has set up the sacred fires with his fires and with the sacrificial vessels"—thus it is known \[from scripture\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.17) puruṣāhutirhyasya priyatamā ityetāmanukhyātāṃ dahanasya bruvate \ > "For an offering of a man is dearest to him"—this they declare as the explanation for the burning. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.18) athāpyudāharanti śarīradāyādā ha vāgnayo bhavanti iti \ > Moreover they cite: "The fires indeed become heirs of the body." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.19) tadapi dāśataye vijñāyate śataminnu śarado anti devā yatrā naścakrā jarasaṃ tanūnām \ > That also is known in the Ṛgveda: "A hundred autumns indeed are before us, O gods, during which you have appointed old age for our bodies, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.6.2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.agnivesya.3.6.2.20) putrāso yatra pitaro bhavanita mā no madhyā rīriṣatāyurgantoḥ iti \\2\\ > where sons become fathers; do not harm our life halfway to its end." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations 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