{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29109.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29109.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29109.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1. Now the oblations of cooked food on the (two) Parvan (i.e. the new and full moon) days.\n2. The fasting (which takes place) thereat has been declared by (the corresponding rules regarding) the Darsap\u00fbrnam\u00e2sa sacrifices.\n3 3. And (so has been declared) the binding together of the fuel and of the Barhis,\n4 4. And the deities (to whom those oblations belong), with the exception of the Up\u00e2msuy\u00e2ga (offerings at which the formulas are repeated with low voice), and of Indra and Mahendra.\n5. Other deities (may be worshipped) according to the wishes (which the sacrificer connects with his offerings).\n6. For each single deity he pours out four handsful (of rice, barley, &c.), placing two purifiers (i.e. Kusa blades, on the vessel), with (the formula), 'Agreeable to such and such (a deity) I pour thee out.'\n7. He then sprinkles them (those four portions of Havis with water) in the same way as he had poured them out, with (the formula), 'Agreeable to such and such (a deity) I sprinkle thee.'\n8. When (the rice or barley grains) have been husked and cleansed from the husks three times, let him cook (the four portions) separately,\n9. Or throwing (them) together.\n10. If he cooks them separately, let him touch the grains, after he has separated them, (and say,) 'This to this god; this to this god.'\n11. But if he (cooks the portions) throwing (them) together, he should (touch and) sacrifice them, after he has put (the single portions) into different vessels.\n12 12. The portions of sacrificial food, when they\nhave been cooked, he sprinkles (with \u00c2gya, takes them from the fire towards the north, places them on the Barhis, and sprinkles the fuel with \u00c2gya with the formula, 'This fuel is thy self, G\u00e2tavedas; thereby burn thou and increase, and, O burning One, make us increase and through offspring, cattle, holy lustre, and nourishment make us prosper. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n13 13. Having silently poured out the two \u00c2gh\u00e2ras (or \u00c2gya oblations poured out with the Sruva, the one from north-west to south-east, the other from south-west to north-east), he should sacrifice the two \u00c2gya portions with (the formulas), 'To Agni sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To Soma sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\u2014\n14 14. The northern one belonging to Agni, the southern one to Soma.\n15 15. It is understood (in the Sruti), The two eyes indeed of the sacrifice are the \u00c2gya portions,\n16 16. 'Therefore of a man who is sitting with his face to the west the southern (i.e. right) eye is northern, the northern (i.e. left) eye is southern.'\n17 17. In the middle (of the two \u00c2gya portions he\nsacrifices the other) Havis, or more to the west, finishing (the oblations) in the east or in the north.\n18. To the north-east the oblation to (Agni) Svishtakrit.\n19 19-20. He cuts off (the Avad\u00e2na portions) from the Havis from the middle and from the eastern part;\n20. From the middle, the eastern part and the western part (the portions have to be cut off) by those who make five Avad\u00e2nas;\n21. From the northern side the portion for Svishtakrit.\n22 22. Here he omits the second pouring (of \u00c2gya) over (what is left of) the sacrificial food.\n23 23. 'What I have done too much in this ceremony, or what I have done here too little, all that may Agni Svishtakrit, he who knows it, make well sacrificed and well offered for me. To Agni Svishtakrit, to him who offers the oblations for general expiation, so that they are well offered, to him who makes us succeed in what we desire! Make us in all that we desire successful! Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n24 24. He pours out the full vessel on the Barhis.\n25 25. This is the Avabhritha.\n26. This is the standard form of the P\u00e2kayag\u00f1as.\n27. What has been left of the Havis is the fee for the sacrifice.\n173:3 10, 3. See \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Srauta I, 3, 28 Scholion; K\u00e2ty.-Srauta II, 7, 22.\n173:4 See Hillebrandt, Das altindische Neu- and Vollmondsopfer, p. 111; my note on S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya I, 3, 3.\n173:12 In the Mantra we have a similar play upon words (iddha, p. 174 lit, or burning, and samedhaya, make us prosper) as in S\u00e2\u1e45kh.-Grihya II, 10, 4.\n174:13 P\u00e2raskara I, 5, 3; S\u00e2\u1e45kh.-Grihya I, 9, 5 seq.\n174:14 S\u00e2\u1e45kh.-Grihya I, 9, 7.\n174:15 Professor Stenzler here very pertinently refers to Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana I, 6, 3, 38.\n174:16 It is doubtful whether this paragraph should be considered as forming part of the quotation from the Sruti. The object of this passage is, in my opinion, to explain why the southern \u00c2gyabh\u00e2ga belongs to Soma, who is the presiding deity of the north, and the northern \u00c2gyabh\u00e2ga to Agni, the presiding deity of the south-east. Professor Stenzler's opinion about this paragraph is somewhat different.\n174:17 S\u00e2\u1e45kh.-Grihya I, 9, 8.\n175:19-20 19, 20. See above, the note on I, 7, 9 about the Avad\u00e2na portions and the peculiar custom of the descendants of Gamadagni with regard to them.\n175:22 Comp. above, I, 7, 10. 'Here' means, at the Svishtakrit oblation.\n175:23 Comp. P\u00e2raskara I, 2, 11; Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana XIV, 9, 4, 24. On the oblations for general expiation (sarvapr\u00e2yaskitt\u00e2huti) comp. S\u00e2\u1e45kh.-Grihya I, 9, 12, and the note.\n175:24 'A full vessel which has been put down before, he should now pour out on the Barhis.' N\u00e2r\u00e2yana.\n175:25 This pouring out of the vessel holds here the place of the Avabhritha bath at the end of the Soma sacrifice. See Weber, Indische Studien, X, 393 seq.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: I, 10","type":"page"}