{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29045.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29045.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29045.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. Should any one of the six persons (mentioned in the Srauta-s\u00fbtra and in the S\u00fbtras 4-9) to whom the Arghya reception is due, visit (him), let him make (ready) a cow, a goat, or what (sort of food) he thinks most like (thereto).\n2 2-3. Let the Argha not be without flesh.\n3. On the occasion of a sacrifice and of a wedding let (the guest) say, 'Make it (ready).'\n4. The animal (offered) to the teacher is sacred to Agni;\n5. If offered to an officiating priest, to Brihaspati;\n6 6. If to the father-in-law, to Prag\u00e2pati;\n7. If to a king, to Indra;\n8 8. If to a friend, to Mitra;\n9. If to a Sn\u00e2taka, to Indra and Agni;\n10. Even if he performs more than one Soma sacrifice during a year, let only priests who have received (from him) the Arghya reception officiate for him, not such who have not received it.\n11 11. Here it is said also:\n87:1 15, 1. This S\u00fbtra presupposes the Srauta-s\u00fbtra IV, 21, 1: 'To six persons the Argha reception is due, viz. to the teacher, to an officiating priest, to the father-in-law, to a king, to a Sn\u00e2taka, to a friend.' Here the fourth person mentioned is the svasura, while in the Grihya text the expression vaiv\u00e2hya is used. It is difficult not to believe that both words are used in the same sense, and accordingly N\u00e2r\u00e2yana says viv\u00e2hyah svasurah. Comp. Professor Stenzler's note on P\u00e2raskara I, 3, 1; \u00c2pastamba II, 8, 7; Gautama V, 27.\nS\u00e2m\u00e2nyatamam sadrisatamam m\u00e2sh\u00e2dikam (m\u00e2kh\u00e2dikam the MS.) annam. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana.\n87:2-3 2, 3. These S\u00fbtras are identical with P\u00e2raskara I, 3, 29. 30. The following S\u00fbtra of P\u00e2raskara stands in the S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana text as p. 88 S\u00fbtra 10. Probably P\u00e2raskara here represents the text which both S\u00fbtrak\u00e2ras follow, more exactly, and the enumeration given by S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana in S\u00fbtras 4-9 of the different categories of Arghyas with the corresponding deities, is an addition to that original stock of rules.\nApparently the two S\u00fbtras 2 and 3 stand in contradiction to each other, as S\u00fbtra 2 seems to prescribe that at the Argha meal in every case flesh should be given to the guest, and S\u00fbtra 3 specifies only two occasions on which the killing of the Argha cow cannot be dispensed with. Perhaps the meaning is this, that it is not necessary, except in the cases of a sacrifice and of a wedding, to kill a cow expressly for that purpose, but that in any case, even if the cow offered to the guest be declined by him, the host should take care that some flesh be served at that meal. So says N\u00e2r\u00e2yana in his note on \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya I, 24, 33, 'Pasukaranapakshe tanm\u00e2msena bhoganam, utsarganapakshe m\u00e2msantarena.' Similarly the Buddhists distinguish between eating flesh and eating the flesh of an animal expressly killed in order to entertain that very guest.\n88:6 The literal translation of vaiv\u00e2hya would be 'a person related by marriage.' But comp. the note on S\u00fbtra 1.\n88:8 Priya of course does not mean g\u00e2m\u00e2tar, as is stated in a number of commentaries. Gobhila says, priyo\u093dtithih.\n88:11 Other persons, for instance a king, can claim the Argha reception not more than once a year. Comp. \u00c2pastamba II, 8, 7; Gautama V, 28, 29, &c.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): S\u00e2...","type":"page"}