Institutes of Vishnu — LVI.

LVI. | Internet Sacred Text ArchiveSacred Texts Hinduism Index Previous Next # LVI. 1. Now then follow the purifying Mantras from all the Vedas. [LVI. M. XI, 250-260; Y. III, 302-305; Gaut. XIX, 12; XXIV. 1. 'Now then,' i. e. the previous chapter containing an enumeration of secret sins, an enumeration of the purifying Mantras, by which they may be expiated, follows next. (Nand.)] 2. By muttering them, or reciting them at a burnt-oblation, the twice-born are purified from their sins. (They are as follows:) 3. The Aghamarsha*n*a; 4. The Devak*ri*ta; 5. The Suddhavatîs; 6. The Taratsamandîya; 7. The Kûshmâ*nd*îs; 8. The Pâvamânîs; 9. The Durgâsâvitrî; 10. The Atishangas; 11. The Padastobhas; 12. The Vyâh*ri*ti Sâmans.; 13. The Bhâru*nd*as; 14. The *K*andrasâman; 15. The [3. Rig-veda X, 190, 1. (This and the following references are based upon Nand.'s statements.) 4. Vâ*g*asaneyi Sa*m*hitâ VIII, 13. 5. Rig-veda VIII, 84, 7-9. 6. Rig-veda IX, 58. 7. Vâ*g*as. Sa*m*h, XX, 14-16 (Taitt. Âra*n*y. X, 3-5). 8. The term Pâvamânya*h* in its most common use denotes the ninth book of the Rig-veda, but Nand. here refers it to Taitt. Brâhm. I, 4, 8. 9. Rig-veda I, 99, 1. 10. Sâma-veda II, 47-49. Regarding this and the following Sâmans see also Benfey, Ind. Stud. III, 199 seq., Burnell's Index to the Ârsheya Brâhmana, and S. Goldschmidt's remarks in his edition of the Âranyaka Samhitâ, Transactions of the Berlin Academy, 1868, p. 246 seq. 11. Sâma-veda II, 578-580. 12. 'The Vyâh*ri*ti Sâmans, i. e. bhû*h* and the four others.' (Nand.) The four others are, bhuva*h*, sva*h*, satyam, purusha*h*. See Ûyagâna III, 2, 10, in Satyavrata Sâmâ*s*ramî's edition of the Sâma-veda Sa*m*hitâ. 13. 'Bhâru*nd*a is the name of certain Sâmans, twenty-one in number, which begin with the words, yat te k*ri*shna*h* *s*akuna (Rig-veda X, 16, 6). They are contained in the Âra*n*yagâna.' (Nand.) The reading of the last word is doubtful. At all events, the verse quoted by Nand. does not occur in the Âra*n*yagâna. It may be that the Sâmans called Ekavi*ms*atyanugâna are meant, which are found in that work, though they do not contain the verse referred to. 14. Sâma-veda I, 147. 15. Âra*n*yaka Sa*m*hitâ IV, 33, 34, in Goldschmidt's edition, = Rig-veda X, 90, 1, 4.] two Sâmans called Purushavrata; 16. The Ablinga; 17. The Bârhaspatya; 18. The Gosûkta; 19. The Â*s*vasûkta; 20. The two Sâmans called *K*andrasûkta; 21. The *S*atarudriya; 22. The Atharva*s*iras; 23. The Trisupar*n*a; 24. The Mahâvrata; 25. The Nârâya*n*îya; 26. And the Purushasûkta; 2 7. The three Â*g*yadohas, the Rathantara, the Agnivrata, the Vâmadevya[4], and the B*ri*hatsâman, properly chanted, purify man from sin; and if he wishes he may obtain through them recollection of his existence in a former life. Next: LVII.