{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29110.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29110.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29110.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1. Now (follows) the ritual of the animal sacrifice.\n2 2. Having prepared to the north of the fire the place for the S\u00e2mitra fire, having given drink (to the animal which he is going to sacrifice), having washed the animal, having placed it to the east (of the fire) with its face to the west, having made oblations with the two Rikas, 'Agni as our messenger' (Rig-veda I, 12, 1 seq.), let him touch (the animal) from behind with a fresh branch on which there are leaves, with (the formula), 'Agreeable to such and such (a deity) I touch thee.'\n3. He sprinkles it from before with water in which rice and barley are, with (the formula), 'Agreeable to such and such (a deity) I sprinkle thee.'\n4. Having given (to the animal) to drink of that (water), he should pour out the rest (of it) along its right fore-foot.\n5. Having carried fire round (it), performing that act only (without repeating a corresponding Mantra), they lead it to the north.\n6 6. In front of it they carry a fire-brand.\n7 7 This is the S\u00e2mitra (fire).\n8 8. With the two Vap\u00e2srapan\u00ee ladles the 'performer' touches the animal.\n9. The sacrificer (touches) the performer.\n10 10. To the west of the S\u00e2mitra (fire) he (the Samitri) kills (the animal), the head of which is turned to the east or to the west, the feet to the north; and having placed a grass-blade on his side of the (animal's) navel, (the 'performer') draws out the omentum, cuts off the omentum, seizes it with the two Agnisrapan\u00ees, sprinkles it with water, warms it at the S\u00e2mitra (fire), takes it before that fire, roasts it, being seated to the south, goes round (the two fires), and sacrifices it.\n11 11. At the same fire they cook a mess of food.\n12 12. Having cut off the eleven Avad\u00e2nas (or portions which have to be cut off) from the animal, from all its limbs, having boiled them at the S\u00e2mitra (fire),\nand having warmed the heart on a spit, let him sacrifice first from the mess of cooked food (mentioned in S\u00fbtra 11);\n13. Or together with the Avad\u00e2na portions.\n14 14. From each of the (eleven) Avad\u00e2nas he cuts off two portions.\n15 15. They perform the rites only (without corresponding Mantras) with the heart's spit (i.e. the spit on which the heart had been; see S\u00fbtra 12).\n176:2 11, 2. The S\u00e2mitra fire (literally, the fire of the Samitri, who prepares the flesh of the immolated animal) is the one mentioned below in S\u00fbtras 7 and 10. Comp. Indische Studien, X, 345. 'I touch thee' is up\u00e2karomi; comp. K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana-Srauta-s\u00fbtra VI, 3, 19. 26.\n176:6 It seems that this fire-brand is the same which had been carried round the animal, according to S\u00fbtra 5. Comp. K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana-Srauta-s\u00fbtra VI, 5, 2-5.\n177:7 Comp. S\u00fbtra 2.\n177:8 On the two Vap\u00e2srapan\u00ees, comp. K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana-Srauta-s\u00fbtra VI, 5, 7; Indische Studien, X, 345. The act which is here attributed to the kartri ('performer'), belongs in the Srauta ritual to the incumbencies of the Pratiprasth\u00e2tri.\n177:10 On the way in which animals had to b. killed at sacrifices, see Weber's Indische Studien, IX, 222 seq.\nOn the position of the head and the feet of the victim, comp. K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana-Srauta-s\u00fbtra VI, 5, 16. 17.\nAccording to K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana VI, 6, 8 seq. a grass-blade is placed on the dead animal's body before the navel (agrena n\u00e2bhim); through that grass-blade he cuts into the body and draws out the omentum.\n'That fire' is, according to N\u00e2r\u00e2yana, not the S\u00e2mitra but the Aup\u00e2sana fire. In the same way in the Srauta ritual the warming of the omentum is performed at the S\u00e2mitra, the boiling at the \u00c2havan\u00eeya fire. K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana VI, 6, 13. 16.\n177:11 The Aup\u00e2sana fire is referred to.\n177:12 The eleven portions are indicated by K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana, Srauta-s\u00fbtra VI, 7, 6.\n178:14 'A Pa\u00f1k\u00e2vattin cuts off three portions. Having performed the Upastarana and the Pratyabhigh\u00e2rana (the first and second pouring out of \u00c2gya) he sacrifices (the cut-off portions).' N\u00e2r\u00e2yana.\n178:15 On the rites regarding the spit, see K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana VI, 10, 1 seq.; Indische Studien, X, 346.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: I, 11","type":"page"}