{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/index.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/index.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/index.htm","text":"| The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29) by Hermann Oldenberg [1886] | \n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n ...Let us beget offspring.\nLet us acquire many sons, and may they reach old age.\nLoving, bright, with genial minds may we see a hundred autumns,\nmay we live a hundred autumns, may we hear a hundred autumns!\n--p. 282.\nThis is part one of two of the Sacred Books of the East translation of the Grihya Sutras. The Grihya Sutras are a collection of late Vedic-era (ca. 500 BCE) household rituals and regulations, many reflecting much more ancient traditions. It is like reading a time-travelling ethnographer's field notes in Vedic India. Included are fertility and marriage ceremonies, ritual purity laws, plus material on initiations, funerals and other rites of passage. This volume also includes a complete Sanskrit transliteration of the text of the Khadira-Grihya-Sutra, rare for the SBE series.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29) Index","type":"page"}