Rigvidhana 3.8
Ṛgvidhāna 3.8
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- Sanskrit
3.8.40
na enam purā āyuṣo mṛtyur nayate sasuta prajam./
phala āhāro jayen mṛtyum tribhir varṣair mita aśanaḥ.//
Death does not carry him off, together with his children and offspring, before his full life span. / Subsisting on fruit, eating moderately, he would conquer death in three years.
3.8.41
ṣaṣṭhe kāle tu bhuñjīta phalam mūlam atha api vā./
sthāna āsanābhyām vihared udake śiśire vaset.//
He should eat at the sixth mealtime fruit or even roots; / he should spend his time standing and sitting, and he should stay in water during the cold season.
3.8.42
grīṣme pañca tapās tu syād varṣāsv abhra avakāśakaḥ./
evam yukto jayen mṛtyum rogebhyaś ca pramucyate.//
In the hot season he should undergo the penance of the five fires, and in the rainy season he should expose himself to the clouds. / Devoted in this way, he would conquer death and is freed from diseases.
3.8.43
bhrātur bhāryām aputrasya santāna artham mṛte patau./
devaro anvārurukṣantīm udīrṣva iti nivartayet.//
When the husband of a childless woman has died, the brother-in-law, for the sake of lineage, / should turn back the woman wishing to ascend [the funeral pyre] after [him], with the verse: “Arise!”
3.8.44
ṛtu kāle tu samprāpte ghṛta abhyakto atha vāg yataḥ./
ekam utpādayet putram na dvitīyam kathaṃcana.//
When her fertile season has arrived, anointed with ghee, restraining his speech, / he should generate one son, under no circumstances a second.
3.8.45
daśa akṣaram tu śānty artham bhadram na iti saṃsmaret./
nityam japet śucir bhūtvā mānasam vindate sukham.//
For the sake of pacification, he should remember the ten-syllable [mantra]: “May what is auspicious [happen] to us!” / Having become pure, he should recite it constantly; he finds mental happiness.
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