{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29015.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29015.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29015.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1. 'Be queen with thy father-in-law,' with this verse (Rig-veda X, 85, 46) her father or brother sacrifices with a sword's point on her head, or with the Sruva, standing while she is sitting, with his face turned to the west, while her face is turned to the east.\n2. 'I seize thy hand for the sake of happiness' (Rig-veda X, 85, 36), with these words (the bridegroom) seizes with his right hand her right hand with the thumb, both hands being turned with the palms upwards, he standing while she is sitting, with his face turned to the west, while her face is turned to the east.\n3. And when he has murmured the following five verses,\n4 4. (He continues thus,) 'This am I, that art thou;\nthat art thou, this am I; the heaven I, the earth thou; the Rik art thou, the S\u00e2man I. So be thou devoted to me.\n'Well! Let us here marry. Let us beget offspring. Let us acquire many sons who may reach old age.'\n5. (The \u00c2k\u00e2rya) fills, with the words bh\u00fbr bhuvah svah, a new water-pot,\n6 6. Throws into it (branches) with milky sap and leaves, of a tree the name of which is masculine, together with Kusa grass,\n7. And gold, according to some (teachers),\n8. And hands it over to a student who observes silence.\n9 9. They should walk round this Sthey\u00e2 water, (placed) to the north-east, so that they turn their right sides . towards it.\n10. And after (the \u00c2k\u00e2rya) has placed a stone towards the northern direction,\n11. (The bridegroom) makes her rise with the words, 'Come, thou joyful one,'\n12. And makes her tread with the tip of her right foot on the stone, with the words, 'Come, tread on the stone; like a stone be firm. Tread the foes down; overcome the enemies.'\n13. He then leads her round the fire so that their right sides are turned to it,\n14. And gives her a second garment with the same text (chap. 12, \u00a7 3).\n15. Her father or brother pours out of a basket fried grain mixed with Sam\u00ee leaves into her joined hands.\n16. The spreading under, the sprinkling over, and the second sprinkling over (are done) with \u00c2gya.\n17 17. She sacrifices those (fried grains).\n35:4 13, 4. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana states that here four Br\u00e2hmanas should repeat p. 36 the S\u00fbry\u00e2 hymn (Rig-veda X, 85) to the bride. That, according to S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana, that hymn is recited at the wedding, is clear from chap. 14, 12.\n36:6 Saksh\u00eer\u00e2nt sapal\u00e2s\u00e2nt sakus\u00e2n. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana's commentary divides sa kus\u00e2n, and refers sa to the \u00e2k\u00e2rya. But this sa would be superfluous, and the substantive to which saksh\u00eer\u00e2n and sapal\u00e2s\u00e2n are to be referred, is, as both the nature of the case and the corresponding passages show, s\u00e2kh\u00e2n and not kus\u00e2n. Comp. the Srauta-s\u00fbtra IV, 17, 5: pal\u00e2sas\u00e2kh\u00e2m sapal\u00e2s\u00e2m nikh\u00e2ya, and a passage concerning the very rite here described, \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-parisishta I, 24: audumbary\u00e2rddhay\u00e2. (read, \u00e2rdray\u00e2?) s\u00e2khay\u00e2 sapal\u00e2say\u00e2 sahiranyapavitray\u00e2 sad\u00fbrv\u00e2pavitray\u00e2. The MS. of the S\u00e2mbavya-s\u00fbtra has saksh\u00eer\u00e2n pal\u00e2s\u00e2n sakus\u00e2n.\n36:9 'The Sthey\u00e2 water has to be so placed that when the bride and the bridegroom walk (their seven steps, see chap. 14, 5 seq.), their right sides are turned towards it.' N\u00e2r\u00e2yana. Comp., regarding the Sthey\u00e2 water and its bearer, the Grihya-samgraha-parisishta II, 26. 30. 35.\n37:17 I believe that the words forming this S\u00fbtra, t\u00e2\u00f1 guhoti, are taken from the same lost old Grihya text which S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana has followed word for word also in I, 5, 1-5 and elsewhere. This is made probable by the comparison of P\u00e2raskara I, 6, 2. The author of our text, while literally adopting the words of his original, has not quite succeeded in welding them together with his own statements; thus the sacrifice of grains is treated of in this S\u00fbtra and in the first S\u00fbtra of the next chapter, as if there were two different acts, while indeed it is one and the same.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): S\u00e2...","type":"page"}