{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29123.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29123.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29123.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. When he has chosen the Ritvigas, he should offer the Madhuparka (i.e. honey-mixture) to them (in the way described in S\u00fbtras 5 and following);\n2. To a Sn\u00e2taka, when he comes to his house;\n3. And to a king;\n4. And for a teacher, the father-in-law, a paternal uncle, and a maternal uncle.\n5. He pours honey into curds,\n6. Or butter, if he can get no honey.\n7. A seat, the water for washing the feet, the Arghya water (i.e. perfumed water into which flowers have been thrown), the water for sipping, the honey-mixture,\na cow: every one of these things they announce three times (to the guest).\n8. With (the verse), 'I am the highest one among my people, as the sun among the thunderbolts. Here I tread on him whosoever infests me'\u2014he should sit down on the seat (made of) northward-pointed (grass).\n9. Or (he should do so) after he has trodden on it.\n10. He should make (his host) wash his feet.\n11. The right foot he should stretch out first to a Br\u00e2hmana,\n12. The left to a S\u00fbdra.\n13. When his feet have been washed, he receives the Arghya water in the hollow of his joined hands and then sips the water destined thereto, with (the formula), 'Thou art the first layer for Ambrosia.'\n14. He looks at the Madhuparka when it is brought to him, with (the formula), 'I look at thee with Mitra's eye.'\n15. He accepts it with his joined hands with (the formula), 'By the impulse of the god S\u00e2vitr\u00ee, with the arms of the two Asvins, with the hands of P\u00fbshan I accept thee.' He then takes it into his left hand, looks at it with the three verses, 'Honey the winds to the righteous one' (Rig-veda I, 90, 6 seqq.), stirs it about three times from left to right with the fourth finger and the thumb, and wipes (his fingers) with (the formula), 'May the Vasus eat thee with the G\u00e2yatr\u00ee metre'\u2014to the east;\n16. With (the formula), 'May the Rudras eat thee with the Trishtubh metre'\u2014to the south;\n17. With (the formula), 'May the \u00c2dityas eat thee with the Gagat\u00ee metre'\u2014to the west;\n18. With (the formula), 'May the Visve dev\u00e2s eat thee with the Anushtubh metre'\u2014to the north.\n19. With (the formula), 'To the beings thee'\u2014he three times takes (some of the Madhuparka substance) out of the middle of it.\n20. With (the formula), 'The milk of Vir\u00e2g art thou'\u2014he should partake thereof the first time,\n21. With, 'The milk of Vir\u00e2g may I obtain'\u2014the second time,\n22 22. With, 'In me (may) the milk of Pady\u00e2 Vir\u00e2g (dwell)'\u2014the third time.\n23. (He should) not (eat) the whole (Madhuparka).\n24. He should not satiate himself.\n25. To a Br\u00e2hmana, to the north, he should give the remainder.\n26. If that cannot be done, (he should throw it) into water.\n27. Or (he may eat) the whole (Madhuparka).\n28 28. He then makes a rinsing of his mouth follow (on the eating of the Madhuparka) with the water destined thereto, with (the formula), 'Thou art the covering of Ambrosia.'\n29. With (the formula), 'Truth! Glory! Fortune! May fortune rest on me!'\u2014a second time.\n30. When he has sipped water, they announce to him the cow.\n31. Having murmured, 'Destroyed is my sin; my sin is destroyed,' (he says,) 'Om, do it,' if he chooses to have her killed.\n32. Having murmured, 'The mother of the Rudras, the daughter of the Vasus' (Rig-veda VIII, 101, 15),\n[paragraph continues] (he says,) 'Om, let her loose,' if he chooses to let her loose.\n33 33. Let the Madhuparka not be without flesh, without flesh.\nEnd of the First Adhy\u00e2ya.\n197:1 24, 1 seqq. Comp. S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya II, 15. The second S\u00fbtra is paraphrased by N\u00e2r\u00e2yana thus, 'To a person that has performed the Sam\u00e2vartana (see below, III, 8), when he comes on that day to his house with the intention of forming a matrimonial alliance.'\n199:22 On Pady\u00e2 Vir\u00e2g, see the note on S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya III, 7, 5.\n199:28 Comp. above, S\u00fbtra 13.\n200:33 Comp. S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya II, 15, 2.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): \u00c2s...","type":"page"}