{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29086.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29086.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29086.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1. If a dove or an owl sits down (on his house),\n2. Let him sacrifice with (the hymn), 'O gods, the dove' (Rig-veda X, 165), verse by verse.\n3. If he has seen a bad dream or an occurrence boding misfortune,\n4. Or when the cawing of a crow is heard in (the dead of) night,\n5. And in the case of other prodigies,\n6. Let him cook rice-grains with milk,\n7. With the milk of a cow that has a calf of the same colour (with her own),\n8. But in no case of a black (cow),\n9. And let him sacrifice with the night-hymn (Rig-veda X, 127), verse by verse.\n10. Having eaten the remnants of those oblations with the Mah\u00e2vy\u00e2hritis,\n11. And having recited over his ears (the verse), 'Blessing with our ears' (Rig-veda I, 89, 8),\n12. And over himself (the verse), 'May a hundred autumns be before us, ye gods' (ibid. 9),\n13. He shall give something to the Br\u00e2hmanas.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): S\u00e2...","type":"page"}