Dharmasutras by Olivelle Patrick;

Author:Olivelle, Patrick;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999-08-02T16:00:00+00:00

Aghamarṣaṇa

51Next, we will explain the procedure of the Aghamarṣaṇa, an unsurpassed means of purification.

2The person should go to a sacred ford; bathe; wear clean clothes; erect an altar at the water’s edge; wet his clothes with one handful of water; and, filling his hand once with water and facing the sun, perform his private vedic recitation with the Aghamarṣaṇa hymn. 3He recites it one hundred times in the morning, one hundred times at midday, and one hundred times in the afternoon—or an unlimited number of times. 4After the stars have risen, he should eat a dish prepared with one handful of barley.

5In seven days he is freed from secondary sins causing loss of caste committed intentionally or unintentionally; and in twelve days from all sins except these—killing a Brahmin (A 1.19.15 n.), having sex with the wife of an elder, stealing gold, and drinking liquor. 6In twenty-one days he rises above even these, he conquers even these.

7‘He rises above all. He conquers all. He obtains the fruits of all sacrifices. He becomes a man who has bathed in all the sacred fords. He becomes a man who has completed the vows for studying all the Vedas. He becomes a man known to all the gods. He purifies a row of people (A 2.17.21 n.) by just looking at them. And all his activities are successful’—so says Baudhāyana.

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