{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29060.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29060.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29060.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. After the \u00c2grah\u00e2yan\u00ee (or the full moon day of the month M\u00e2rgas\u00eersha) (follow) the three Ashtak\u00e2s in the second fortnight (of the M\u00e2rgas\u00eersha and of the two following months).\n2. At the first of these he sacrifices vegetables,\n3 3. With (the verse), 'She who shone forth first is this (earth); she walks, having entered into this (earth). The wife has brought forth (children), the new-creating mother. May the three powers follow her. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n4. Now (the oblation for Agni) Svishtakrit,\n5 5. With (the verses), 'She in whom Yama, the son of Vivasvat, and all gods are contained, the Ashtak\u00e2 whose face is turned to all sides, she has satiated my desires.\n'They call thy teeth \"the pressing-stones;\" thy\nudder is (Soma) Pavam\u00e2na; . . . . are the months and half-months. Adoration to thee, O glad-faced one! Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n102:1 12, 1. On the Ashtak\u00e2 festivals, of which some texts reckon three, while others have four, comp. Weber, Naxatra (second article), pp. 337, 341 seq.; B\u00fchler, S.B.E., II, p. 214; Ludwig, Rig-veda, vol. iv, pp. 424 seq.; Atharva-veda III, 10. The last Ashtak\u00e2, which is celebrated in the dark fortnight of M\u00e2gha, is called Ek\u00e2shtak\u00e2; this Ashtak\u00e2 is called the 'wife of the year,' 'the image of the year,' 'the disposer of the days.' If the Ph\u00e2lguna month is reckoned as the first of the year, this Ashtak\u00e2 precedes the year's beginning only by a few days; there are also some Vedic passages which point to the Ek\u00e2shtak\u00e2's following shortly after the beginning of the year; see Weber, loc. cit., p. 342.\n102:3 Instead of navakrit the parallel texts (except the Mantrabr\u00e2hmana II, 2, 12) have navagat, which is explained by n\u00fbtanaviv\u00e2havat\u00ee (Ludwig, loc. cit.); the 'three powers' are understood by M\u00e2dhava (in the commentary on Taitt. Samh. IV, 3, 11) as Agni, S\u00fbrya, and Kandra.\n102:5 After pavam\u00e2nah there is evidently a word wanting that p. 103 indicated the limb of the Ashtak\u00e2's body identified with the months and half-months.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: III, 12","type":"page"}