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VISH2VU.

XXII, 84-

Madhfika tree (Madhftka wine), from molasses, from
the fruits of the Tanka (or Kapittha tree), of the
jujube tree, of the Khar^ura tree, or of the bread-
fruit tree, from wine-grapes, from Madhfika blossoms
(M&dhvika wine), Maireya, and the sap of the cocoa-
nut tree :
84. These ten intoxicating drinks are unclean for
a Brahmazza ; but a Kshatriya and a Yahya commit
no wrong in touching (or drinking) them.
85. A pupil having performed (on failure of
other mourners) the funeral of his dead Guru, be-
comes pure after ten nights, like those (kinsmen)
who carry out the dead.
86. A student does not infringe the rules of his
order by carrying out, when dead, his teacher, or his
sub-teacher, or his father, or his mother, or his Guru.
87. A student must not offer a libation of water
to a deceased relative (excepting his parents) till
the term of his studentship has expired; but if,
after its expiration, he offers a libation of water, he
becomes pure after three nights.
88. Sacred knowledge (see 92), religious austeri-
ties (see 90), fire (see XXIII, 33), holy food (Pan-
^agavya), earth (see 91), the mind, water (see
91), smearing (with cow-dung and the like, see
XXIII, 56), air (see XXIII, 41), (the morning and
evening prayers and other) religious acts, the sun
but Kulluka, in his comment on the term Madhvt (M. XI, 95),
states expressly that it means ‘ Madhuka blossom,’ and Harita (as
quoted by Nand.) says that Madhuka, Madhvt and Madhvika are
all preparations from Madhu, i. e. Madhuka blossoms. Maireya,
according to the lexicographer Va^aspati, as quoted by Nand., is an
intoxicating drink prepared from the flowers of the grislea tormen-
tosa, mixed with sugar, grain, and water, or, according to the reading
of the Nabdakalpadruma (see the Petersburg Dictionary), with sorrel.
 
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