An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.443.2

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Vāyu said that he who, during the four months of the rainy season, offers sesames and water, etc., acquires all the merit resulting from 100 sacrifices in which animals are offered up to the gods. When a Çūdra ignites the sacred fires, or women are allowed to assist at rites, one is reborn as a Çūdra, and P. and D. are never gratified with him; as an expiation, one should for three days pour into the sacred fire libations of the urine of the cow mixed with cow-dung, milk, and ghee; after a year the gods once more accept the offerings of such a man, and P. become gratified (XIII, 128). Lomaça warned against cohabiting with the wives of the others, to a barren woman, and against appropriating what belongs to a brahman, or D. and P. will refuse one's offerings, etc. On the 12th lunar day and the day of full moon, one should every month make gifts of ghee and akṣata to brahmans; and the Ocean increases, and Indra confers one-fourth of the merit of a horse-sacrifice, and Soma grants the fruition of one's wishes. He who, during this Kaliyuga, at dawn, in white robes, makes gifts of a vessel of sesame seeds to brahmans, and of water with sesame seeds and honey to P., and who gives lamps and kṛçara, acquires, this is the ancient ordinance of R., applauded by P. and D. heaven and Pitṛloka (XIII, 129). Bhīṣma said: R., P., and D.