The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

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VISH2VU.

LIX, 7.

7. Or when rice and barley are ripening (in
winter and spring).
8. He who has a sufficient supply of food for
more than three years (shall perform the Soma-
sacrifice)
9. (He shall perform) the Soma-sacrifice once a
year (in spring).
10. If he has not wealth (sufficient to defray the
expenses of the Pasubandha, Soma, Aaturmasya,
and other Srauta sacrifices), he shall perform the
Ish/i Vaisvanart
11. Let him not make an offering of food ob-
tained as alms from a Sudra.
12. If he has begged articles for a sacrifice (and
obtained them), let him employ them all for that
purpose (and never for himself).
13. Every evening and morning let him offer up
the Vaisvadeva ;
14. And1 let him give alms to an ascetic (after-
wards).
15. For giving alms and showing due honour to
the recipient (by pouring water on his hands both
before and afterwards) he obtains the same reward
as for giving a cow.
barley, or, according to Apastamba, of Vewuyava, have to be
offered, and he infers from another text of the same author that
the particle Zu here refers to an oblation of Nyamaka grain, which
has to be offered in the rainy season. The two passages in question
are not found in Apastamba’s Dharma-sutra, but Weber, loc. cit.,
quotes them from Katyayana.
8. 1 According to Nand., the Soma-sacrifices here referred to are
of the kamya species (offered in order to obtain the gratification
of a special desire).
14. 3 Nand. infers from the use of the particle ^a, and from a
text of Parasara, that an injunction to give alms to a student is also
intended here.