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Vyavahara Mayukha of Nilakantha Bhatta

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पृष्ठ 80, कुल 332 में से

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पृष्ठ 80
  • Pitāmaha says :
    Examination by fire (ordeal) should be made in the forenoon and
    the balance also in the forenoon.¹ Water should be offered in the noon
    by one who desires to secure the truth about dharma. Purification by
    kośa is prescribed for the first part of the day (forenoon), but poison
    should be given at night in the last watch, (as then it is) very cool.
    Respectable people say that these ordeals should be resorted to on Sunday.²
    Now as to the place (of ordeals). Pitāmaha says :
    The balance should always be placed facing the east and motionless in
    a purified place, either in a famous temple of some God (such as Indra)³,
    or in the court-hall, at the royal gate or in a public square.
    Nārada (p 104 v 265) says :
    In the court room, at the royal gate and in the square of a temple
    (ordeal should be performed).
    Kātyāyana says :
    In the case of those men who are accused of the great sins, (the
    ordeal) should be performed in indrasthāna (place where Indra's banner
    is worshipped or some holy shrine) and at the royal gate in the case of
    those who are guilty of treason (or sedition). Ordeal should be offered
    in the public square to those who are born of unions in the reverse order
    of castes (i. e. unions of males of lower castes with women of higher
    castes). The wise declare that in matters other than these (ordeals
    should be performed) in the midst of the court hall.
    Nārada says :
    When ordeals are administered at an improper time and place and are
    undergone by the litigants outside (the village, i. e. away from the public
    gaze) they always fail (to be decisive) as to the matters in dispute;
    there is no doubt about this.⁴
  1. According to the Mit. the day of twelve hours is to be divided into three parts,
    the first part of four hours being called pūrvāhna (forenoon), the second madhyāhna
    (noon) and the third aparāhna (afternoon).
  2. Vide Mit. on Yāj. II. 97.
  3. The word 'Indrasthāne' is explained 'as some well-known temple' by the Smṛti-
    candrikā, while the Divyatattva explains it as 'the place where the banner festival in honour
    of Indra is held.' This last festival, where a banner in honour of Indra was worshipped,
    continued from the 8th to the 12th day of the bright half of Bhādrapada. Vide Bṛhatsam-
    hitā chap 43.
  4. Dr Jolly' (S. B. E. vol. 38 p. 250) is not right in translating the last half as 'they
    constitute a deviation from the proper course of a law suit'. The Smṛticandrikā and Parā-
    śara-Mādhavīya say 'if the proper place and the like are disregarded, the ordeal loses its
    validity, this is declared in the words adeśakālā', &c.
  • P. 51 (text)