{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29121.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29121.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29121.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1. Having tied the girdle round him and given him the staff, he should impose the (observances of the) Brahmakarya on him\u2014\n2. (With the words), 'A Brahmak\u00e2rin thou art. Eat water. Do the service. Do not sleep in the day-time. Devoted to the teacher study the Veda.'\n3. Twelve years lasts the Brahmakarya for (each) Veda, or until he has learnt it.\n4. Let him beg (food) in the evening and in the morning.\n5. Let him put fuel on (the fire) in the evening and in the morning.\n6. Let him beg first of a man who will not refuse,\n7. Or of a woman who will not refuse.\n8. (In begging he should use the words), 'Sir, give food!'\n9 9. Or, '(Sir, give) Anupravakan\u00eeya (food).'\n10 10. That (which he has received) he should announce to his teacher.\n11. He should stand the rest of the day.\n12 12. After sunset (the student) should cook the Br\u00e2hmaudana (or boiled rice with which the Br\u00e2hmanas are to be fed) for the Anupravakan\u00eeya sacrifice (the sacrifice to be performed after a part of the Veda has been studied), and should announce to the teacher (that it is ready).\n13. The teacher should sacrifice, while the student takes hold of him, with the verse, 'The wonderful lord of the abode' (Rig-Veda I, 18, 6).\n14. A second time with the S\u00e2vitr\u00ee\u2014\n15 15. And whatever else has been studied afterwards.\n16. A third time to the Rishis.\n17. A fourth time (the oblation) to (Agni) Svishtakrit.\n18 18. Having given food to the Br\u00e2hmanas he should cause them to pronounce the end of the Veda (study).\n19. From that time (the student) should eat no saline food; he should observe chastity, and should sleep on the ground through three nights, or twelve nights, or one year.\n20 20. When he has fulfilled those observances, (the teacher) performs (for him) the 'production of intelligence,' (in the following way):\n21 21. While (the student) towards an unobjectionable direction (of the horizon) sprinkles thrice (water) from the left to the right with a water-pot round a\n[paragraph continues] Pal\u00e2sa (tree) with one root, or round a Kusa bunch, if there is no Pal\u00e2sa, (the teacher) causes him to say, 'O glorious one, thou art glorious. As thou, O glorious one, art glorious, thus, O glorious one, lead me to glory. As thou art the preserver of the treasure of sacrifice for the gods, thus may I become the preserver of the treasure of the Veda for men.'\n22 22. Thereby, beginning with his having the hair cut, and ending with the giving in charge, the imposing of observances has been declared.\n23. Thus for one who has not been initiated before.\n24. Now as regards one who has been initiated before:\n25 25. The cutting of the hair is optional,\n26 26. And the 'production of intelligence.'\n27 27. On the giving in charge there are no express rules (in this case);\n28 28. And on the time.\n29 29. (He should recite to him) as the S\u00e2vitr\u00ee (the Rik),'That we choose of god Savitri' (Rig-veda V, 82, 1).\n191:9 22, 9. Food for the Anupravakan\u00eeya offering; see S\u00fbtra 12.\n191:10 S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya II, 6, 7; P\u00e2raskara II, 5, 8.\n191:12 'The student should, according to the rules for the P\u00e2kayag\u00f1as, cook the Anupravakan\u00eeya food and announce it to the teacher in the words, \"The food is cooked.\"' N\u00e2r\u00e2yana.\n192:15 N\u00e2r\u00e2yana mentions as such texts especially those belonging to the \u00c2ranyaka, viz. the Mah\u00e2n\u00e2mnyas, the Mah\u00e2vrata, and the Upanishad. But there is no reason why we should not think quite as well of the Rig-veda Samhit\u00e2 itself.\n192:18 'He should say, \"Sirs! Pronounce the end of the Veda (study).\" And they should reply, \"May an end of the Veda (study) be made.\"' N\u00e2r\u00e2yana.\n192:20 Comp. above, chap. 15, 2.\n192:21 'The objectionable directions are three, the south, the southeast, the south-west.' N\u00e2r\u00e2yana.\nSusravas, which I have translated by 'glorious,' at the same time means, 'endowed with good hearing,' i.e. successful in study. The student therefore by the same word prays for glory and for success in Vedic learning.\n193:22 The rules stated above for the Upanayana, beginning with the prescription regarding the cutting of the hair (given chap. 19, so in the words, 'whose [hair on the] head is arranged;' see the note there), and ending with the ceremony prescribed chap. 20, 8, are to be extended also to other cases of the imposing of a vow, such, for instance, as that mentioned chap. 18, 9.\n193:25 See chap. 79, 10.\n193:26 See above, S\u00fbtra 20.\n193:27 See chap. 20, 8.\n193:28 See chap. 4, 1.\n193:29 Instead of the ordinary S\u00e2vitr\u00ee, Rig-veda III, 62, 10.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: I, 22","type":"page"}