Ritwijas
Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 28 Feb 2010 18:24 and updated at 28 Feb 2010 18:24
Mahabharata: 18 Parvas
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Mbh.2.13.544 | After this the intelligent and virtuous Yudhishthira, wise in counsel, again consulted with his brothers, with the illustrious Ritwijas about him, with his ministers and with Dhaumya and Dwaipayana and others. |
Mbh.2.13.547 | After the Ritwijas and the Rishis had told these words unto the king, his ministers and brothers highly approved of the speech. |
Mbh.3.253.12486 | And, O represser of foes, let Ritwijas as prescribed, and versed in the Vedas, celebrate thy rites according to the ordinance, O king. |
Mbh.3.293.14311 | And summoning all the old Brahmanas, and Ritwijas together with the priests, he set out with his daughter on an auspicious day. |
Mbh.5.30.1331 | O Suta, repairing unto the priest of king Dhritarashtra as also unto his preceptors and Ritwijas, thou shouldst address them and enquire after their welfare. |
Mbh.7.54.2603 | Acquiring his kingdom virtuously, he sought the advice of his Ritwijas and domestic priests and Brahmanas for his own good, and enquiring of them, used to obey their behests. |
Mbh.12.85.4827 | He should entertain with honour and attention preceptors of different sciences, Ritwijas, and priests, mighty bowmen, persons skilled in architecture, astronomers and astrologers, and physicians, as also all men possessed of wisdom and intelligence and self-restraint and cleverness and courage and learning and high birth and energy of mind, and capable of close application to all kinds of work. |
Mbh.12.90.5150 | Paying proper honours unto Ritwijas and priests and preceptors, and doing good offices unto them constitute the duty of the king. |
Mbh.12.95.5358 | That king whose Ritwijas and priests and preceptors and others about him that are well-versed in all scriptures and deserving of honours are duly respected, is said to be conversant with the ways of the world. |
Mbh.12.97.5434 | Who, again, are regarded its Ritwijas? |
Mbh.12.97.5436 | Indra said, Elephants constitute the Ritwijas of that sacrifice, and steeds are its Audharyus. |
Mbh.12.131.7423 | At such times, however, the king should not oppress, Ritwijas, and Purohitas and preceptors and Brahmanas, all of whom are honoured and held in high esteem. |
Mbh.12.267.16339 | Particular ones amongst these that are laid down for particular sacrifices, coupled with Ritwijas and presents to the priests themselves and other Brahmanas together sustain sacrifices |
Mbh.12.338.21696 | who is all the Ritwijas, who is the origin of all sacrifices viz, the Vedas, who is fire, who is the very heart of all sacrifices viz, the mantras and hymns uttered in them, who is he that is hymned in sacrifices, who takes those shares of the sacrificial offerings that are presented to him, who is the embodiment of the five sacrifices, who is the maker of the five sections or divisions of time viz, day, night, month, season and year, who is incapable of being understood except by those scriptures that are called Pancharatra, who never shrinks from anything, who is unvanquished, who is only Mind without a physical frame, who is known only by name, who is the Lord of Brahman himself, who has completed all the vows and observances mentioned in the Vedas who is the Hansa bearer of the triple stick, who is the Parama-hansa divested of stick, who is the foremost of all sacrifices, who is Sankhya-yoga, who is the embodiment of the Sankhya philosophy, who dwells in all Jivas, who lives in every heart, who resides in every sense, who floats on the ocean-water, who lives in the Vedas, who lies on the lotus the image of the egg whence the universe has sprung, who is the Lord of the universe, and whose troops go everywhere for protecting his worshippers. |
Mbh.14.73.3206 | SECTION LXXIII Vaisampayana said, When the hour for initiation came, all those great Ritwijas duly initiated the king in view of the horse-sacrifice. |
Mbh.14.73.3207 | Having finished the rites of binding the sacrificial animals, the son of Pandu, viz, king Yudhishthira the just endued with great energy, the initiation being over, shone with great splendour along with those Ritwijas. |
Mbh.14.73.3211 | All his Ritwijas also, O king, were clad in similar robes. |
Mbh.14.91.4252 | While the limbs of the sacrifice were spread out, the Ritwijas became busy in accomplishing the diverse rites ordained in the scriptures. |
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice. |
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