{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29044.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29044.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29044.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. Now (follows) the Vaisvadeva (sacrifice).\n2 2. The rite of the sacrifice has been explained.\n3. Let him pour oblations of prepared Vaisvadeva food in the evening and in the morning into the (sacred) domestic fire.\n4. 'To Agni sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To Soma sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To Indra and Agni sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To Vishnu sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To Bharadv\u00e2ga Dhanvantari sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To the Visve dev\u00e2s sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To Prag\u00e2pati sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To Aditi sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To Anumati sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To Agni Svishtakrit\nsv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\u2014having thus offered the oblations belonging to those deities,\n5. He then shall offer Balis (i.e. portions of food) in the centre of the floor to the same deities; (then another Bali with the words,) 'Adoration to Brahman and to the Br\u00e2hmanas!' and (with the verse), 'V\u00e2stoshpati, accept us' (Rig-veda VII, 54, 1) in the centre of the floor to V\u00e2stoshpati.\n6 6-7. He then distributes Balis, from the left to the right, through the different quarters (of the horizon, to the presiding deities) in due order (with the words),\n7. 'Adoration to Indra and to those belonging to Indra! Adoration to Yama and to those belonging to Yama! Adoration to Varuna and to those belonging to Varuna! Adoration to Soma and to those belonging to Soma! Adoration to Brihaspati and to those belonging to Brihaspati!'\n8 8. Then (turned) towards the disk of the sun, 'Adoration to Aditi and to the \u00c2dityas! Adoration\n5. 'He shall offer a Bali to those deities, i.e. to those ten deities to whom he has sacrificed, to Agni, &c. (see S\u00fbtra 4), addressing them with the word, \"Adoration (to such and such a deity\")\u2014because in the other cases the word \"adoration\" (namah) has been prescribed for the Bali.' N\u00e2r\u00e2yana.\nto the Nakshatras, to seasons, to months, to half-months, to days and nights, to years!'\n9. 'To P\u00fbshan, the path-maker; to Dh\u00e2tar, to Vidh\u00e2tar, and to the Maruts'\u2014(thus) on the thresholds.\n10. To Vishnu on the grindstone.\n11. 'To the tree'\u2014(thus) in the mortar.\n12. 'To the herbs'\u2014(thus) where the herbs are kept.\n13. 'To Parganya, to the waters'\u2014(thus) near the water-pot.\n14. 'Adoration to Sr\u00ee'\u2014(thus) in the bed at the head, 'to Bhadrak\u00e2l\u00ee at the foot.\n15. In the privy, 'Adoration to Sarv\u00e2nnabh\u00fbti!'\n16. Then (he throws a Bali) into the air, in the evening with the words, 'To the night-walkers,' in the morning with the words, 'To the day-walkers,' and with the Verse,' Which gods' (Rig-veda I, 139, 11).\n17. To the unknown deities to the north, and to Dhanapati (i.e. the Lord of treasures).\nI8. With the sacrificial cord suspended over the right shoulder he pours out the remnant to the south with the verse, 'They whom the fire has burnt' (Rig-veda X, 15, 14).\n19. When he has made his offerings to gods, fathers (i.e. Manes), and men, let him give food to a Srotriya (i.e. to a learned Br\u00e2hmana).\n20. Or let him give alms (of food) to a student.\n21 21. Let him immediately afterwards offer food to a female under his protection, to a pregnant woman, to boys, and to old people.\n22 22-23. Let him throw (some food) on the ground for the dogs, for the dog-butchers, and for the birds.\n23 23. Let him eat nothing without having cut off (and offered as a Bali) a portion thereof.\n24. (Let him) not (eat) alone,\n25. Nor before (the others).\n26. With regard thereto it has been said also in the Rik,' In vain the fool gains food' (Rig-veda X, 117, 6).\n84:1 14, 1. The rules regarding the Vaisvadeva sacrifice stand here, as I have already pointed out in the German edition, p. 142, in a very strange position amid the matter that concerns the student, and before the description of the ceremony that concludes studentship (the Sam\u00e2vartana; III, 1). On the first word of the chapter, atha, N\u00e2r\u00e2yana observes that thereby the householder is marked as the subject of the following rules. It seems rather forced to explain the position of this chapter, as N\u00e2r\u00e2yana does, by pointing out that in some cases, for instance when the teacher is away on a journey, a student also can eventually be called upon to perform the Vaisvadeva sacrifice (comp. below, chap. 17, 3).\n84:2 This S\u00fbtra shows, according to N\u00e2r\u00e2yana, that the Vaisvadeva offering does not follow the ordinary type of sacrifice (the Pratisrute homakalpa, as it is termed above, I, 9, 19), but the form described in the Agnik\u00e2ryaprakarana, above, chap. 10, 3 seq.\n85:6-7 6, 7. The distribution of Balis begins in the east, which is the part of the horizon sacred to Indra; it then proceeds to the south, the west, the north, which are sacred respectively to Yama, Varuna, and Soma. Finally the Bali belonging to Brihaspati and the B\u00e2rhaspatyas is offered, according to N\u00e2r\u00e2yana, to the north-east.\n85:8 The commentators (see p. 142 of the German edition) differ as to whether \u00e2dityamandala means the disk of the sun towards which this Bali should be offered, or a place or an apartment of circular form (\u00e2dityamandalar\u00fbpe mandal\u00e2g\u00e2re, as in my opinion we ought to correct the reading in N\u00e2r\u00e2yana's note).\n86:21 Comp. B\u00f6htlingk-Roth s. v. suv\u00e2sin\u00ee, and Professor B\u00fchler's note on Gautama V, 25.\n87:22-23 22, 23. Probably these S\u00fbtras should be divided after iti.\n87:23 'P\u00fbrvam means, he should not eat before his relations (bandhubhyah p\u00fbrvam prathamatah).' N\u00e2r\u00e2yana.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: II, 14","type":"page"}