{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29067.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29067.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29067.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. Now (follows) the Up\u00e2karana (i.e. the ceremony by which the annual course of study is opened).\n2 2. When the herbs appear, under the Nakshatra Hasta or Sravana,\n3. Let him make oblations of the flour of fried barley and of grains, mixed with curds and ghee, with the (whole) Veda, verse by verse: thus say some (teachers).\n4 4. Or with the first verses of the S\u00fbktas and Anuv\u00e2kas.\n5. With the first verses of the Adhy\u00e2yas and of the sections belonging to the (different) Rishis, according to M\u00e2nd\u00fbkeya.\n6. But Kaush\u00eetaki has said:\n7. 'I praise Agni the Purohita' (Rig-veda I, 1, 1), this one verse,\n8. 'The Kushumbhaka (mungoose?) has said it;' 'If thou criest, O bird, announce luck to us;' 'Sung by Gamadagni;' 'In thy abode the whole world rests;'\n[paragraph continues] 'Come to our sacrifice, O you that are worthy of sacrifice, with care;' 'Whosoever, be he ours, be he alien;' 'Look on, look about;' 'Come here, Agni, the Maruts\u2019 friend;' 'The oblation, O king, cooked for thee:' each time two verses,\n9 9. 'That blessing and bliss we choose'\u2014this one verse (the first and last verse of each Mandala).\n10. (Taking something) of the remnants of the sacrificed (food) they partake of that sacrificial food with this (verse), 'I praised Dadhikr\u00e2van' (Rig-veda IV, 39, 6).\n11. They sip water, sit down,\n12. Murmur the Mah\u00e2vy\u00e2hritis, the S\u00e2vitr\u00ee, and the auspicious hymns commencing from the beginning of the Veda,\n13. And cause the teacher to pronounce auspicious wishes.\n14. Of this (ceremony) it is also said,\n15. 'Desirous (of acquiring) for the hymns inexhaustible vigour, reverence, and also soundness, the Rishis, by the power of their austerities, have discovered the Up\u00e2karman.\n16 16. 'Therefore a constant performer of the six kinds of works should, in order that his Mantras might be successful, perform the Up\u00e2karman\u2014so they say\u2014if he wishes for success of his (holy) works.\n17 17. 'At the time of the Up\u00e2karman and of the Utsarga an interruption (of the Veda-study) shall take place for (three days and) three nights, likewise at the Ashtak\u00e2s for one day and one night, and so on the last night of each season.'\n112:1 5, 1. As to the Up\u00e2karana, see the statements of Professor Weber in his second article on the Nakshatras, Abhandlungen der Berliner Akademie, 1861, p. 338, and of Professor B\u00fchler in his notes on \u00c2pastamba, S.B.E., II, pp. 110, 111.\n112:2 The Nakshatra Sravana is evidently considered as particularly fit for this occasion because of its name containing an allusion to sruti, &c.\n112:4 I have followed N\u00e2r\u00e2yana, but perhaps I ought to have translated, 'S\u00fbktas or Anuv\u00e2kas,' and in the fifth S\u00fbtra, 'Adhy\u00e2yas or the sections, &c.'\n113:9 According to Kaush\u00eetaki, the oblations are made with the first and last rikas of each Mandala. The last rik of the tenth Mandala quoted here, tak kham yor \u00e2 vrin\u00eemahe, is different from the verse with which our Samhit\u00e2 (the S\u00e2kala Samhit\u00e2 of the Rig-veda) closes. It is well known that tak kham yor \u00e2 vrin\u00eemahe is the last verse in the B\u00e2shkala S\u00e2kh\u00e2 which was adopted by the S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana school (comp. Indische Studien, IV, 431; Weber, Verzeichniss der Berliner Sanskrit-Handschriften, p. 314, &c.; Indische Literaturgeschichte, second edition, Nachtrag, p. 2). It was also known long since that the B\u00e2shkala S\u00e2kh\u00e2 of the Rig-veda contains eight hymns more than the S\u00e2kala S\u00e2kh\u00e2. The Karanavy\u00fbha Bh\u00e2shya (comp. Dr. von Schroeder's Introduction to his excellent edition of the Maitr\u00e2yan\u00ee Samhit\u00e2, vol. i, p. xxiv), known to me through the kindness of Professor Weber, tells which eight hymns these are. There it is said (folio 22 of Professor Weber's MS.) that in the B\u00e2shkala Samhit\u00e2 there followed after VIII, 48 the first two of the V\u00e2lakhilya hymns, after VIII, 94 the V\u00e2lakhilya hymns 3-7, and at the end of the whole collection the so-called samg\u00f1\u00e2na hymn (see Professor Max M\u00fcller's edition, vol. vi, p. 32), which ends with the very verse quoted in our S\u00fbtra, tak kham yor \u00e2 vrin\u00eemahe.\n114:16 The six kinds of works are, performing sacrifices (yagana), officiating at the sacrifices of others (y\u00e2gana), studying the Veda (adhyayana), teaching the Veda to others (adhy\u00e2pana), giving (d\u00e2na), and accepting gifts (pratigraha). N\u00e2r\u00e2yana.\n114:17 Concerning the Utsarga, see chap. 6. This Sloka occurs also Manu IV, 119 with the reading kshepanam instead of kshapanam ('kshapanam khandas\u00e2m vir\u00e2ma anadhy\u00e2yah,' N\u00e2r\u00e2yana). Kshapanam is correct.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: IV, 5","type":"page"}