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" The ears of a Sudra who listens, intentionally, when the Veda is being recited are to be filled with molten lead. His tongue is to be cut out if he recite it. His body is to be split in twain if he preserve it in his memory. "
Benares, the Sacred City: Sketches of Hindu Life and Religion - Page 20
by Ernest Binfield Havell - 1905 - 226 pages
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Buddhist India

Thomas William Rhys Davids - 1903 - 378 pages
...priestly law-books — rules that received, it should be noted, the cordial approval of Shankara.1 " The ears of a Sudra who listens, intentionally, when...be split in twain if he preserve it in his memory." ' The priestly view was that God himself had bestowed the exclusive right of teaching upon the hereditary...
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The Asiatic Review

1919 - 692 pages
...privileges of scholarship and learning in those bygone days may be judged from the following passage r "The ears of a Sudra who listens, intentionally, when...tongue is to be cut out if he recite it. His body is tobe split in twain if he preserve it in his memory." Thus it is not surprising to find that the earliest...
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The Doctrine of Karma: Its Origin and Development in Brāhmaṇical, Buddhist ...

Y. Krishan, Yuvraj Krishan - 1997 - 226 pages
...from offering sacrifices. According to Gautamadharmasütra 2.34 and Sarhkara "The ears of a südra who listens intentionally, when the Veda is being...be filled with molten lead. His tongue is to be cut if he recites it. His body is to be split in twain if he preserves it in his memory." (Särhkara Bhäsya...
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The Asiatic Review

1919 - 700 pages
...privileges of scholarship and learning in those bygone days may be judged from the following passage : "The ears of a Sudra who listens, intentionally, when...tongue is to be cut out if he recite it. His body is tobe split in twain if he preserve it in his memory." Thus it is not surprising to find that the earliest...
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