Part 3.24 - Samuccaya

REFERENCE MS XI - 27. 984 Passage - कप्तानां विहितानां पशुसोमानां नित्यानां षाण्मास्यः
सांवत्सरः पशुर्नित्यं वसन्ते सोमस्तेषामसंभवे धनाभावादिदोषेण
निष्कृत्यर्थं नित्यस्याकरणे योदोवस्तनिवृत्यर्थं श्रुतेऽ स्मिन्निमित्ते ऽन्य
कर्म समामनन्ति तत्र केचित्समुच्चयं मन्यन्ते सत्यय्येक कार्यत्वे
प्रमाणभेदेन विधानात्र तदयुक्तं तथा च ब्रह्महत्या प्रायश्चित्ते
श्रौले स्मार्ते च
स्वशब्देन विकल्पं वसत्यभिनिद्विश्वजिद्ध [kaptānāṃ vihitānāṃ paśusomānāṃ nityānāṃ ṣāṇmāsyaḥ
sāṃvatsaraḥ paśurnityaṃ vasante somasteṣāmasaṃbhave dhanābhāvādidoṣeṇa
niṣkṛtyarthaṃ nityasyākaraṇe yodovastanivṛtyarthaṃ śrute' sminnimitte 'nya
karma samāmananti tatra kecitsamuccayaṃ manyante satyayyeka kāryatve
pramāṇabhedena vidhānātra tadayuktaṃ tathā ca brahmahatyā prāyaścitte
śraule smārte ca
svaśabdena vikalpaṃ vasatyabhinidviśvajiddha] ‌याँ
चेति ।
[yāṃ
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] Translation -
Cmed hatithi on Ms XI -27)
Mrx1-27)
'Animal and Soma sacrifices' the compulsory ones. The six-monthly
and yearly 'Animal sacrifices' are compulsory, as also the 'Soma sacrifice'
every spring.
In the event of the impossibility of the performance' of these, on
account of the absence of the requisite wealth 'in expiation thereof',
for the removal of the sin incurred by the omission of a compulsory rite.
In connection with the occasion here referred to the Veda lays down
other expiatory rites; and some people would combine these with what is
here prescribed; their point being that, even though both the rites serve
the same purpose, yet they are found to be laid down by two distinct
authorities.
This however, is not right, because in connection with the expiatory
rites for the slaying of a Brahmana, our author is going to declare in
so many words that between the rite laid down in the Veda and that
prescribed in the Smrti, there should be option. 'He may perform the
Abhijit or the Visvajit.'