History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c89.240

v7.c89.240

[^1273 a]: The तै. आ. II 13. 4 has the very words ‘नमो ब्रह्मणे इति परिधानीयां त्रिरन्वाह’ that occur in बौ. गृ. शे सू The verse is ‘नमो ब्रह्मणे नमोस्त्वग्नये नमः पृथिव्यै नम ओषधीभ्यः। नमो वाचे नमो वाचस्पतये नमो विष्णवे बृहते करोमि॥’ (तै. आ. II. 12). The verse occurs in आश्व गृ. (III 5. 4), which reads महते for बृहते sprinkled with the mixture Similarly, the Matsya¹²⁷⁵ prescribes for one in whose birth rāśi an eclipse takes place a sacred bath with water from four jars full of water in which earth from the stables of horses, elephants, from an ant-hill, from a confluence, a deep reservoir of water, from a cowpen and from entrance of a palace is cast, and also *pañcagavya*, five jewels, *rocanā*, lotuses, sandalwood, saffron, *uśīra*, *guggulu*; mantras also are to accompany the bath; Indra, Varuṇa, Kubera and other gods are invoked for removing the evil results of eclipses.