{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29026.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29026.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29026.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. Now the G\u00e2takarman (i.e. ceremony for the new-born child).\n2 2. Let (the father) breathe three times on the new-born child and then draw in his breath with the words, 'Draw in your breath with the Rik, breathe within with the Yagus, breathe forth with the S\u00e2man.'\n3. Let him mix together butter and honey, milk curds and water, or grind together rice and barley, and give it to eat (to the child) thrice from gold (i.e. from a golden vessel or with a golden spoon),\n4. With (the verse), 'I administer to thee honey food for the festival, the wisdom (\"veda\") raised by Savitar the bountiful; long-living, protected by the gods, live a hundred autumns in this world, N.N.!'(with these words) he gives him a name beginning with a sonant, with a semivowel in it, consisting of two syllables, or of four syllables, or also of six syllables; he should take a krit (suffix), not a taddhita.\n5. That (name only) his father and his mother should know.\n6. On the tenth day a name for common use, which is pleasing to the Br\u00e2hmanas.\n7. Let him pulverise black and white and red hairs of a black ox, intermix (that powder) with those four substances (see S\u00fbtra 3), and give it to eat (to the child) four times: such (is the opinion of) M\u00e2nd\u00fbkeya.\n8 8. If he likes (let him do so) with the words, 'Bh\u00fbh! The Rig-veda I lay into thee, N.N., sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n'Bhuvah! The Yagur-veda I lay into thee, N.N., sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n'Svah! The S\u00e2ma-veda I lay into thee, N.N., sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n'Bh\u00fbr bhuvah svah! V\u00e2kov\u00e2kya (colloquies), Itih\u00e2sa, and Pur\u00e2na\u2014Om! All the Vedas I lay into thee, N.N., sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n9. The production of intelligence (is performed) by thrice saying in his right ear, 'Speech!'\n10. And let him recite over (the child the following text), 'Speech, the goddess, united with mind, together with breath, the child, uttered by Indra\u2014may she rejoice in thee, the goddess, for the sake of joy, the great one, the sweet sounding, the music, full of music, the flowing, self-produced.'\n11. Let him tie a piece of gold to a hempen string,\n12 12. And bind it to (the child's) right hand until (the mother) gets up (from childbed).\n13. After the tenth day let him give it to the Br\u00e2hmanas,\n14. Or keep it himself.\n49:1 24, 1. Comp. Dr. Speijer's essay on the G\u00e2takarman (Leiden, 1872). N\u00e2r\u00e2yana observes that, as it is prescribed below (chap. 25, 4) that a mess of food is to be cooked in the s\u00fbtik\u00e2gni, here the s\u00fbtik\u00e2gni is established, and sacrifice is performed therein. The S\u00fbtra I, 25, 4, from which it is to be inferred that the s\u00fbtik\u00e2gni should be kept, is considered, accordingly, as a G\u00f1\u00e2paka (see Professor B\u00fchler's notes on \u00c2pastamba I, II, 7; Gautama p. 50 I, 31; N\u00e2r\u00e2yana's note on chap. 25, 4, p. 133 of the German edition).\n50:2 Abhyav\u00e2nya should be corrected into abhyap\u00e2nya, as in IV, 18, 1 nearly all the MSS. read niv\u00e2ta instead of nip\u00e2ta. The S\u00e2mbavya MS. reads in the text, trir abhy\u00e2ny\u00e2nupr\u00e2nya; in the commentary trir anyap\u00e2ny\u00e2nupr\u00e2ny\u00e2. Comp., on the terminology of the different vital airs, Speijer, G\u00e2takarma, p. 64 seq.; Eggeling, S.B.E., vol. xii, p. 20.\n51:8 Veti vikalp\u00e2rthe. bh\u00fbr rigvedam ity\u00e2dikaturbhir mantrair as\u00e2v ity atra p\u00fbrveva (read p\u00fbrvavat?) kum\u00e2ran\u00e2magrahanap\u00fbrvakam kum\u00e2ram pr\u00e2sayet. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana.\n51:12 B\u00e2lasya dakshine haste. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: I, 24","type":"page"}