History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.21

v5.c72.21

The Hir. P. S. I. 1 provides that when it is thought that the *āhıtāgnı* is going to die, he (the son or the like) should mutter in the dying man's ear (if he is a knower of Brahma) the two *anuvākas* of the Tai. Up. II. 1 (beginning with 'brahmavidāpnoti param') and III. 1 (beginning with 'Bhṛgurvai vāruniḥ'). The A. K. D. (p 18) says⁴³² that if the dying man is unable to engage in *japa* he should revolve in his mind the benign form of Visnu or Śiva and should listen to the thousand names (of Visnu or Śiva), the Bhagavadgītā, the Bhāgavata, Bhārata, Rāmāyana, the Upanisads like Īśāvāsya and hymns to Soma.