History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.1050.3

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meaning of tīrtha is sometimes extended to places where Agnihotra and śrāddha are performed, to temples, to house where Veda is being studied, to cowpens, parks, where an aśvattha tree exists, where a teacher stands or a chaste woman dwells 564; mode of travel, use of conveyances, horses, bullock carts, wearing of shoes, rules about these in Purāṇas and digests 576-577; muṇḍana and kṣaura distinguished 575; not only men of all varṇas but also women and even cāṇḍālas have adhikāra for t. 567-568; number of tīrthas declared by Vāyu, according to Matsya, Padma, Nāradīya and other Purāṇas, is 35 millions in the sky, the aerial regions and the earth 564; number of tīrthas, acc. to Varāhapurāṇa, is 60 thousand crores 564n; one should not enter upon an examination of the worth of brāhmaṇas at a tīrtha 578-579; one who wants to undertake t. should pay off his three debts, should provide means of maintenance for his sons and consign his wife to their care 571; rewards promised for baths at tīrthas 727; rites to be performed when a person undertakes a t. 572-73, 583; rivers in general, certain named rivers and waters are referred to with great veneration as early as Ṛgveda 555; sacred places for Moslems 552; sarvālopa to be made at starting on t. 577, Shah Jehan, emperor, remitted the tax levied on pilgrims at Prayāga and Kāśī owing to eloquent pleading of Kavīndrācārya 571;