{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29024.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29024.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29024.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1. In the seventh month, at her first pregnancy, the S\u00eemantonnayana (or parting of the hair).\n2. He causes her, after she has bathed and put on a (new) garment which has not yet been washed, to sit down behind the fire.\n3. He sacrifices, while she takes hold of him, with the Mah\u00e2vy\u00e2hritis.\n4. He cooks a mess of food,\n5. According to some (teachers) boiled rice with Mudga beans.\n6. The implements used and the Nakshatra should be of male gender.\n7. (He then sacrifices with the following texts,) 'May Dh\u00e2tar give to his worshipper further life and safety; may we obtain the favour of the god whose laws are truthful.\n'Dh\u00e2tar disposes of offspring and wealth; Dh\u00e2tar has created this whole world; Dh\u00e2tar will give a\nson to the sacrificer: to him you shall sacrifice, an offering rich in ghee.'\n(Besides) with the three verses, 'Negamesha, fly away' (Rig-veda Khailika s\u00fbkta, after X, 184, vol. vi, p. 31), and in the sixth place the verse, 'Prag\u00e2pati' (Rig-veda X, 121, 10).\n8 8. (The husband then) parts her hair, upwards, beginning from the middle, with a porcupine's quill that has three white spots, or with a Darbha needle together with unripe Udumbara fruits, with the words, 'Bh\u00fbr bhuvah svah.'\n9. He lays down (the thing he has used) in her lap,\n10 10. Ties (the fruits) to a string of three twisted threads and fastens them to her neck with the words, 'Rich in sap is this tree; like the sappy one be thou fruitful.'\n11 11. (The husband) then says to lute-players, 'Sing ye the king\u2014\n12. 'Or if anybody else is still more valiant.'\n13 13. Having poured fried grain into a water-pot, let him cause her to drink it with the six verses,\n[paragraph continues] 'May Vishnu take care of thy womb,' 'I call R\u00e2k\u00e2' (Rig-veda X, 184, 1; II, 32, 4-8).\n14. Let him then touch her (with the words),\n15 15. 'The winged one art thou, the Garutmat; the Trivrit (stoma) is thy head, the G\u00e2yatra thy eye, the metres thy limbs, the Yagus thy name, the S\u00e2man thy body.'\n16 16-17. Let him cause her to sing merrily,\n17. Wearing, if she likes, many gold ornaments.\n18. A bull is the fee for the sacrifice.\n48:8 22, 8. Comp. above, chap. 12, 6.\n48:10 N\u00e2r\u00e2yana: tisribhis tantubhir vritte s\u00fbtre udumbaraphal\u00e2ni . . . gale . . . badhn\u00e2ti. I have translated accordingly. P\u00e2raskara I, 15, 6 uses the same expression trivrit. Professor Stenzler there translates it, on the authority of Gayar\u00e2ma, 'dreifache Haarflechte,' and says in his note on that passage that, according to S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana, he would have to tie the things with a threefold string to the neck of the woman, as if S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana's statement were different from that of P\u00e2raskara. But both authors have the same word, and only the commentators differ in their explanations thereof.\n48:11 \u00c2sval\u00e2yana more explicitly says (I, 14, 6), Somam r\u00e2g\u00e2nam samg\u00e2yet\u00e2m iti.\n48:13 In my German translation there is a mistake which should be corrected. I have there referred shalrika to the verses R\u00e2k\u00e2m p. 79 aham, which are actually only five in number. The six verses are Vishnur yonim, &c., and the five verses mentioned.\n49:15 V\u00e2gasaneyi Samhit\u00e2 XII, 4.\n49:16-17 16, 17. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana: modam\u00e2n\u00eem harshayukt\u00e2m tam m\u00e2\u1e45galikair g\u00eetair g\u00e2yayet . . . mah\u00e2hemavat\u00eem bahv\u00e2bharanayukt\u00e2m v\u00e2 g\u00e2yayet.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: I, 22","type":"page"}