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

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VISHNU.

LXXXIII, 3.

3. One who keeps five fires ;
4. One who can sing the Samans called Gye-
shZ/za;
5. One who has studied the whole Veda ;
6. One who has studied one Vedanga;
7. One who has studied either the Purazzas
(Legends), or the Itihasas (Epics), or grammar;
8. One who has studied one of the Dharma^as-
tras (Institutes of the Sacred Law);
9. One purified by visiting sacred places of pil-
grimage ;
10. One purified by offering sacrifices ;
11. One purified by austere devotion ;
12. One purified by veracity ;
13. One purified by (constantly muttering) Man-
tras ;
14. One intent upon muttering the Gayatri;
15. One in whose family the study and teaching
of the Veda are hereditary.
16. One who knows the Trisuparzza (the text
which thrice contains the word Suparzza).

in consequence of a vow, the portion of the Yag-ur-veda called
Tri/zViketa. See Apast. II, 7, 17, 22, with Dr. Buhler’s note,
and the Petersburg Dictionary.
4. Sama-veda II, 209-2n, &c.
7. Grammar is again mentioned here, although it forms part of
the Vedangas mentioned in Sutra 6. But there the PratBakhyas
are meant. (Nand.)
8. The number of the Smrz'tis or Dharmajastras, according to
Nand., amounts to fifty-seven. The now current tradition gives
thirty-six as their number; but upwards of a hundred works of
this description must have been actually in existence. See Dr.
Buhler’s Introduction to the Bombay Digest, p. xii seq.
16. See above, LVI, 23, and Dr. Buhler’s note on Apast. loc. cit.
Nand. proposes another interpretation also of the term Trisuparzza,
* one who has thrice kindled a fire in honour of Suparzza.’