Verse 5.120

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:

क्षौमवत्शङ्खशृङ्गाणामस्थिदन्तमयस्य च ।
शुद्धिर्विजानता कार्या गोमूत्रेणौदकेन वा ॥ १२० ॥

kṣaumavatśaṅkhaśṛṅgāṇāmasthidantamayasya ca |
śuddhirvijānatā kāryā gomūtreṇaudakena vā || 120 ||

The learned man should purify conch-shells, horn and things mads of bone and tusk, like linen; and by c ow’s urine or water.—(120).

 

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):

The ‘bone’, ‘horn’ and ‘tusk’ meant are those of the touchable animals,—the cow, the sheep end the elephant,—and not of such animals as the dog, the ass and the like.

‘Water’ and ‘cow’s urine’ are optional alternatives; while the use of ‘white mustard’ is to be combined with either of these.—(120).

 

Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha

(Verse 121 of others.)

This verse is quoted in Aparārka (p. 260);—in Nityācārapradīpa (p. 99);—in Parāśaramādhava Prāyaścitta, p. 138);—and in Hemādri (Śrāddha, p. 805).

 

Comparative notes by various authors

(See the texts under 110.)

Gautama (1.30-31).—‘Stone, jewels, shells and mother-o’-pearl should be scoured;—articles of hone and clay should bo planed.

Baudhāyana (1.8.45-47).—‘Bones should be cleansed like wood (by planing); conch-shells, horn, pearl-shells and ivory should be cleansed like linen (with paste of yellow mustard).’

Vaśiṣṭha (3.50-52).—‘Stones and gems (like metals) should be scoured with ashes; so also conch-shells and pearl-shells; objects made of hone should he planed.’

Viṣṇu (23. 23).—‘Things made of horns, hone or teeth should be cleansed with sesamum.’

Yājñavalkya (1.185).—‘Wood, horn and bones and things made out of fruits should he scoured with brush made of the hairs of the cow’s tail.’

Yama (Aparārka, p. 261).—‘Vessels made of gourd and wood and bamboo-chips, when very much defiled, should????? given up.’

Parāśara (7.28).—‘Things made of bamboo, tree-bark, linen and cotton cloth, woolen and jute are purified by sprinkling water.’

Aṅgiras (Parāśaramādhava, p. 138).—‘Woolen things are purified by air, fire and sun’s rays; they are not defiled by the touch of semen or of a dead body.’