{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29096.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29096.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29096.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. 'Unerring mind, vigorous eye (is) the sun, the noblest of the stars. Inauguration, do no harm to me!'\u2014with (these words) they look at Savitri (I.e. the sun).\n2. One (verse), 'You both the gladdening one' (Rig-veda X, 131, 4), and the three (verses), 'Blessing to us on the paths' (Rig-veda X, 63, 15-17) (are to be repeated before the recitation) of the Mah\u00e2vrata (chapter).\n3. But (at that) of the Sakvar\u00ee (verses) before (the formula mentioned in the first Sara):\n4 4. The three Trikas, 'To him, the thirsty one' (Rig-veda VI, 42, 1-3), 'The wealthiest (Soma), O wealthy one' (VI, 44, 1-3), 'Him who does no harm to you' (VI, 44, 4-6), (the verse), 'To him, to him the sap of the herb' (VI, 42, 4), (and the verse), \"Verily thou art a hero' (VIII, 81, 28)\u2014thus for the Sakvar\u00ee (verses) before and afterwards.\n5. Now for the Upanishad (texts)\u2014\n6. The same (recitation) as for the Mah\u00e2vrata.\n7 7. For the Samhit\u00e2s, however, before (the text given in the first S\u00fbtra the formula has to be recited), 'I shall speak right, I shall speak truth (&c.)'\u2014this is the difference (in the case of the Samhit\u00e2s).\n8 8. Now for the Mantha the two verses (have to be recited) before (the formula given in the first S\u00fbtra), 'This we entreat of Savitar,' 'That glorious (splendour) of Savitar' (Rig-veda V, 82, 1; III, 62, 10).\n9. With (the formula), 'Unerring mind' (see S\u00fbtra 1), then follow the expiatory formulas that belong to the (different) sections.\n10. (All) this on one day.\n145:1 4, 1. The formula 'Adabdham manah,' &c. has to be recited before each of the single \u00c2ranyaka texts (the Sakvar\u00ee verses, the Mah\u00e2vrata, &c.); to this formula are added, before or after it, as the case may be, other texts specified in the S\u00fbtras 2-8. Of these there can be no doubt about the meaning of S\u00fbtras 7, 8, treating of the introductory formulas of the Samhit\u00e2 section (Kaush. \u00c2r. VII-VIII) and of the Mantha section (ibid. IX): before the text adabdham, &c. are to be added, in the first case the formula ritam vadishy\u00e2mi, &c., in the second case two Rikas addressed to Savitri. These formulas and verses have been received into the \u00c2ranyaka text and are found there in the order here stated, at the beginning of books VII and IX. The meaning of the words samhit\u00e2n\u00e2m tu p\u00fbrvam (S\u00fbtra 7) having thus been established, I can see no reason why we should not interpret the words sakvar\u00een\u00e2m to p\u00fbrvam (S\u00fbtra 3) quite in the same way. Thus the introductory benediction for the recital of the Sakvar\u00ee verses would consist, firstly of the verses stated in S\u00fbtra 4, then of the formula adabdham, &c.; those verses would have to be repeated again after the Sakvar\u00ee verses (end of S\u00fbtra 4). The recitation of the Mah\u00e2vrata (S\u00fbtras 1, 2) and of the Upanishads (S\u00fbtra 5) is preceded by adabdham, &c., and then by the four verses stated in S\u00fbtra 2. The interpretation which N\u00e2r\u00e2yana gives of this S\u00fbtra is not quite the same as that which I have here proposed; see p. 163 of the German edition.\n146:4 According to the reading of some MSS. we should have to translate, or (the verse), 'Verily,' &c.\n146:7 On the Samhit\u00e2s (Kaush. \u00c2r. VII, VIII) see Max M\u00fcller, Rig-veda Pr\u00e2tis\u00e2khya, pp. 4 seq.; Ait. \u00c2ranyaka III (pp. 305 seqq., ed. Bibl. Ind.; Sacred Books of the East, I, pp. 247 seq.).\n146:8 Regarding the description of the Mantha sacrifice (Kaush. \u00c2r. IX) which has to be performed by one who wishes to attain greatness, comp. Satap. Br\u00e2hmana XIV, 9, 2; Kh\u00e2nd. Up. V, 2, 4; Sacred Books of the East, I, p. 75.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: VI, 4","type":"page"}