{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29016.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29016.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29016.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1. 'This woman, strewing grains, prays thus, \"May I bring bliss to my relations; may my husband live long. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\"'\u2014while the husband murmurs (this) text, she sacrifices standing.\n2 2. (All the ceremonies,) beginning from the treading\nupon the stone, (are repeated) in the same way for a second time,\n3. And in the same way a third time.\n4. Silently, if they like, a fourth time.\n5 5. (The \u00c2k\u00e2rya?) makes (them) step forward in a north-eastern direction seven steps (with the words),\n6. 'For sap with one step, for juice with two steps, for the prospering of wealth with three steps, for comfort with four steps, for cattle with five steps, for the seasons with six steps. Friend be with seven steps.'\n7. (The \u00c2k\u00e2rya?) 'appeases' those (foot-steps) with water.\n8 8. With the three \u00c2pohishth\u00eey\u00e2 verses (Rig-veda X, 9, 1-3) he wipes (them) with the Sthey\u00e2 water,\n9 9. And sprinkles it on their heads.\n10. (The bridegroom then) says, 'I give you a cow.'\n11. Let him give something to the Br\u00e2hmanas each time at the Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2kas and other rites;\n12 12. To him who knows the S\u00fbry\u00e2 hymn the bride's shift.\n13 13-15. A cow is the optional gift to be given by a Br\u00e2hmana,\n14. A village by a R\u00e2ganya,\n15. A horse by a Vaisya.\n16 16. A hundred (cows) with a chariot (he gives to a father) who has only daughters.\n17. To those versed in the sacrificial rites he gives a horse.\n37:2 14, 2. The treading on the stone is prescribed in chap. 13, 12.\n38:5 5, 7. According to N\u00e2r\u00e2yana it is the teacher who makes them walk the seven steps; the Paddhati says that the bridegroom or the \u00c2k\u00e2rya causes her to do so. Comp. P\u00e2raskara I, 8, 1; \u00c2sval\u00e2yana I, 7, 19, &c.\n38:8 Comp. chap. 13, 9.\n38:9 Probably we should read m\u00fbrdhan\u00ee (acc. dual.), not m\u00fbrdhani. \u00c2sval\u00e2yana has siras\u00ee. Of course the heads of both the bridegroom and the bride were sprinkled with water; comp. \u00c2sval\u00e2yana I, 7, 20, &c.\n38:12 The S\u00fbry\u00e2 hymn is Rig-veda X, 85. Comp. the note above on chap. 13, 4.\n39:13-15 These S\u00fbtras, treating of the fee for the sacrifice, are identical with P\u00e2raskara I, 8, 15-18. Apparently they are taken from the same lost original from which several identical passages in the S\u00fbtras of P\u00e2raskara and S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana seem to be derived (see the notes on chap. 5, 1; 13, 7). They stand rather out of place here, for they return to the same subject which had already been treated of in S\u00fbtra 10, though in that S\u00fbtra, as very frequently is the case in our text and in similar ones, only the case of the bridegroom being a Br\u00e2hmana has been taken notice of.\n39:16 Comp. the passages quoted by Professor Stenzler on P\u00e2raskara I, 8, 18. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana has the following note: 'To a duhitrimat, i.e. to the father of a girl who has no brother, he shall give a hundred cows and besides a chariot, in order to destroy the guilt brought about by marrying a girl who has no brother.' Possibly we should here emancipate ourselves from the authority of the commentators, and explain duhitrimat 'he who gives his daughter in marriage,' the bride's father. Comp. \u00c2pastamba II, 11, 18; II, 13, 12; Weber, Indische Studien, V, 343, note 2.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: I, 14","type":"page"}