Institutes of VIshnu 83-84

2401.

1. The following persons sanctify a company:

2. A Tri n â k iketa; ()

3. One who keeps five fires;

4. One who can sing the Sâmans called G yesh th a;

5. One who has studied the whole Veda;

6. One who has studied one Vedâ n ga;

7. One who has studied either the Purâ n as (Legends), or the Itihâsas (Epics), or grammar;

8. One who has studied one of the Dharma s âstras (Institutes of the Sacred Law);

9. One purified by visiting sacred places of pilgrimage;

10. One purified by offering sacrifices;

11. One purified by austere devotion;

12. One purified by veracity;

13. One purified by (constantly muttering) Mantras;

14. One intent upon muttering the G âyatrî;

15. One in whose family the study and teaching of the Veda are hereditary.

16. One who knows the Trisupar n a (the text which thrice contains the word Supar n a).

17. A son-in-law;

18. And a grandson. All these persons are worthy (to be fed at a S râddha);

19. And, particularly, devotees.

20. There is a stanza recited by the manes, which refers to this subject:

21. 'May that man be born to our race, who feeds a Brâhma n a devotee assiduously at a S râddha, by which repast we are satisfied ourselves.'

 

INSTITUTES OF VISHNU 84

2422.

1. He must not offer a S râddha in a country inhabited by barbarians.

2. He must not visit a country, inhabited by barbarians (excepting on a pilgrimage).

3. By (constantly) drinking water from (or bathing in) a pool situated in a foreign (barbarous) country, he becomes equal to its inhabitants.

4. Those countries are called barbarous (mle kkh a) where the system of the four castes does not exist; the others are denoted Âryâvarta, (the abode of the Âryans).

 

The Insitutes of Vishnu CHAPTER NINETY ONE

Divisions 2426-2460

 

INSTITUTES OF VISHNU 85

2426.

1. A S râddha offered at the (Tîrtha or place of pilgrimage called) Pushkaras confers eternal bliss upon the giver;

2. And so does the muttering of prayers, the offering of burnt-oblations, and the practice of austerities in that place.

3. Even by merely bathing at Pushkara he is purified from all his sins.

4. The same effect may be produced at G ayâ s îrsha;

5. And near Va t a (Akshayava t a);

6. And on the Amaraka nt aka mountain;

7. And on the Varâha mountain;

8. And anywhere on the bank of the Narmadâ (Nerbudda) river;

9. And on the bank of the Yamunâ (Jumna);

10. And, particularly, on the Ga n gâ;

11. And at Ku s âvarta;

12. And at Binduka; 13. And upon the Nîlgiri hills; 14. And at Kanakhala; 15. And at Kub g âmra; 16. And on the Bh ri gutu n ga (mountain); 17. And at Kedâra; 18. And on the Mahâlaya (mountain); 19. And on the Na d antikâ (river); 20. And on the Sugandhâ (river); 21. And at S âkambharî; 22. And at Phalgutîrtha; 23. And on the Mahâga n gâ; 24. And at Trihalikâgrâma; 25. And at Kumâradhârâ; 26. And at Prabhâsa; 27. And particularly anywhere on (the bank of) the Sarasvatî;

28. At Ga n gâdvâra (Haridvâr), at Prayâga (Allahabad), where the Ga n gâ river flows into the ocean, constantly in the Naimisha forest, and especially at Benares;

29. And at Agastyâ s rama;

30. And at Ka n vâ s rama (on the Mâlinî river);

31. And on the Kau s ikî (Kosi river);

32. And on the bank of the Sarayû (Surju river in Oudh);

33. And on the confluence of the So n a (Sone) and Gyotisha rivers;

34. And on the Srîparvata (mountain);

35. And at (the Tîrtha situated on the Yamunâ, which is called) Kâlodaka.

 

The Insitutes of Vishnu CHAPTER NINETY TWO

Divisions 2461-2490