Vayu on Sesame Offerings and Atonement

Verse 1 (13.191.1)

किञ्चिद्धर्मं प्रवक्ष्यामि मानुषाणां सुखावहम् । सरहस्याश्च ये दोषास्ताञ्शृणुध्वं समाहिताः ॥

kiñciddharmaṃ pravakṣyāmi mānuṣāṇāṃ sukhāvaham | sarahasyāśca ye doṣāstāñśṛṇudhvaṃ samāhitāḥ

I shall tell you some dharma that brings happiness to mortals, and also the faults, with their secret. Listen with attention.

Note on the text: Removed the opening bracket and the speaker heading "वायुरुवाच ।" printed inside the verse text (it is the speaker); the page brackets this whole passage as an interpolation. Not in the critical edition proper: Appendix I No. 14 (13.125.038d@014_0317-0318); ce_ref left null.

Verse 2 (13.191.2)

अग्निकार्यं च कर्तव्यं परमान्नेन भोजनम् । दीपकश्चापि कर्तव्यः पितॄणां सतिलोदकः ॥

agnikāryaṃ ca kartavyaṃ paramānnena bhojanam | dīpakaścāpi kartavyaḥ pitṝṇāṃ satilodakaḥ

The fire-rite must be performed, and a meal of the best food; and a lamp must be kept for the ancestors, together with water mixed with sesame.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper: Appendix I No. 14 (13.125.038d@014_0319-0320); ce_ref left null.

Verse 3 (13.191.3)

एतेन विधिना मर्त्यः श्रद्दधानः समाहितः । चतुरो वार्षिकान्मासान्यो ददाति तिलोदकम् ॥

etena vidhinā martyaḥ śraddadhānaḥ samāhitaḥ | caturo vārṣikānmāsānyo dadāti tilodakam

A mortal who, with faith and attention, gives sesame-water in this manner through the four months of the rains,

Note on the text: Corrected तिलोदकाम् → तिलोदकम् (misprint in Wikisource; a feminine ending on a neuter noun; CE tilodakam). Not in the critical edition proper: Appendix I No. 14 (13.125.038d@014_0321-0322); ce_ref left null.

Verse 4 (13.191.4)

भोजनं च यथाशक्त्या ब्राह्मणे वेदपारगे । पशुबन्धशतस्येह फलं प्राप्नोति पुष्कलम् ॥

bhojanaṃ ca yathāśaktyā brāhmaṇe vedapārage | paśubandhaśatasyeha phalaṃ prāpnoti puṣkalam

and who feeds a brahmin who has mastered the Veda as far as he is able, obtains here the full reward of a hundred animal sacrifices.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper: Appendix I No. 14 (13.125.038d@014_0323-0324); ce_ref left null.

Verse 5 (13.191.5)

इदं चैवापरं गुह्यमप्रशस्तं निबोधत । अग्नेस्तु वृषलो नेता हविर्मूढाश्च योषितः ॥

idaṃ caivāparaṃ guhyamapraśastaṃ nibodhata | agnestu vṛṣalo netā havirmūḍhāśca yoṣitaḥ

Hear this other secret too, an inauspicious one: when a low-born man leads the fire, and women are bewildered about the oblation,

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper: Appendix I No. 14 (13.125.038d@014_0325-0326); ce_ref left null.

Verse 6 (13.191.6)

मन्यते धर्म एवेति स चाधर्मेण लिप्यते । अग्नयस्तस्य कुप्यन्ति शूद्रयोनिं स गच्छति ॥

manyate dharma eveti sa cādharmeṇa lipyate | agnayastasya kupyanti śūdrayoniṃ sa gacchati

and he thinks, "This is dharma," he is smeared with adharma; the fires grow angry with him, and he goes to the womb of a shudra.

Note on the text: Corrected च चाधर्मेणि → स चाधर्मेण (misprint in Wikisource; the first च is a misprint for स and the ending णि for ण; CE sa cādharmeṇa). Not in the critical edition proper: Appendix I No. 14 (13.125.038d@014_0327-0328); ce_ref left null.

Verse 7 (13.191.7)

पितरश्च न तुष्यन्ति सह देवैर्विशेषतः । प्रायश्चित्तं तु यत्तत्र ब्रुवतस्तन्निबोध मे । यत्कृत्वा तु नरः सम्यक्सुखी भवति विज्वरः ॥

pitaraśca na tuṣyanti saha devairviśeṣataḥ | prāyaścittaṃ tu yattatra bruvatastannibodha me | yatkṛtvā tu naraḥ samyaksukhī bhavati vijvaraḥ

The ancestors are displeased, and the gods especially. Hear from me the atonement for this, which I am about to state, by which a man is rightly made happy and free of fever.

Note on the text: Corrected सहदेवैर् → सह देवैर् (misprint in Wikisource; words run together; CE saha devair). Not in the critical edition proper: Appendix I No. 14 (13.125.038d@014_0329-0331); ce_ref left null.

Verse 8 (13.191.8)

गवां मूत्रपुरीषेण पयसा च घृतेन च । अग्निकार्यं त्र्यहं कुर्यान्निराहारः समाहितः ॥

gavāṃ mūtrapurīṣeṇa payasā ca ghṛtena ca | agnikāryaṃ tryahaṃ kuryānnirāhāraḥ samāhitaḥ

With cow's urine and dung, with milk and with ghee, let him perform the fire-rite for three days, fasting and with a collected mind.

Note on the text: Corrected पुरीषेणि → पुरीषेण (misprint in Wikisource; spurious ि; instrumental of पुरीष, CE mūtrapurīṣeṇa). Not in the critical edition proper: Appendix I No. 14 (13.125.038d@014_0332-0333); ce_ref left null.

Verse 9 (13.191.9)

ततः संवत्सरे पूर्णे प्रतिगृह्णन्ति देवताः । हृष्यन्ति पितरश्चास्य श्राद्धकाल उपस्थिते ॥

tataḥ saṃvatsare pūrṇe pratigṛhṇanti devatāḥ | hṛṣyanti pitaraścāsya śrāddhakāla upasthite

Then, when the year is complete, the gods accept his offerings, and his ancestors rejoice when the time of the shraddha comes.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper: Appendix I No. 14 (13.125.038d@014_0334-0335); ce_ref left null.

Verse 10 (13.191.10)

एष ह्यधर्मो धर्मश्च सरहस्यः प्रकीर्तितः । मर्त्यानां स्वर्गकामानां प्रेत्य स्वर्गसुखावहः ॥

eṣa hyadharmo dharmaśca sarahasyaḥ prakīrtitaḥ | martyānāṃ svargakāmānāṃ pretya svargasukhāvahaḥ

This adharma and this dharma have been declared with their secret, for mortals who desire heaven: it brings the happiness of heaven after death.

Note on the text: Removed the closing "।।]" bracket (end of the bracketed passage) and kept the verse-end mark. Corrected स्वर्गसुखावह ॥ → स्वर्गसुखावहः ॥ (misprint in Wikisource; lost visarga; CE svargasukhāvahaḥ). Not in the critical edition proper: Appendix I No. 14 (13.125.038d@014_0336-0337); ce_ref left null.