{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29127.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29127.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29127.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. On the eighth days of the four dark fortnights of (the two seasons of) winter and Sisira the Ashtak\u00e2s (are celebrated).\n2 2. Or on one (of these days).\n3. The day before, he should offer to the Fathers (i.e. Manes)\u2014\n4. Boiled rice, boiled rice with sesamum seeds, rice-milk\u2014\n5. Or cakes made of four Sar\u00e2vas (of ground grain)\u2014\n6. Sacrificing with the eight (verses), 'May the lower (Fathers) and the higher arise' (Rig-veda X, 15, 1 seqq.), or with as many (verses) as he likes.\n7 7. Then on the next day the Ashtak\u00e2s (are celebrated) with an animal (sacrifice) and with a mess of cooked food.\n8. He may also give grass to an ox,\n9. Or he may burn down brushwood with fire\u2014\n10. With (the words), 'This is my Ashtak\u00e2.'\n11. But he should not omit celebrating the Ashtak\u00e2.\n12. This (Ashtak\u00e2) some state to be sacred to the Visve dev\u00e2s, some to Agni, some to the Sun, some to Prag\u00e2pati, some state that the Night is its deity, some that the Nakshatras are, some that the Seasons are, some that the Fathers are, some that cattle is.\n13 13. Having killed the animal according to the\nritual of the animal sacrifice, omitting the sprinkling (with water) and the touching of the animal with a fresh branch, he should draw out the omentum and sacrifice it with (the verse), 'Carry the omentum, G\u00e2tavedas, to the Fathers, where thou knowest them resting afar. May streams of fat flow to them; may all these wishes be fulfilled. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n14 14. Then (follow oblations) of the Avad\u00e2na portions and the cooked food, two with (the two verses), 'Agni, lead us on a good path to wealth' (Rig-veda I, 189, 1 seq.), (and other oblations with the texts), 'May summer, winter, the seasons be happy to us, happy the rainy season, safe to us the autumn. The year be our lord who gives breath to us; may days and nights produce long life. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n'Peaceful be the earth, happy the air, may the goddess Heaven give us safety. Happy be the quarters (of the horizon), the intermediate quarters, the upper quarters; may the waters, the lightnings protect us from all sides. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n'May the waters, the rays carry our prayers (to the gods); may the creator, may the ocean turn away evil; may the past and the future, (may) all be safe to me. Protected by Brahman may I pour forth songs. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n'May all the \u00c2dityas and the divine Vasus, the Rudras, the protectors, the Maruts sit down (here). May Prag\u00e2pati, the abounding one, the highest ruler, bestow vigour, offspring, immortality on me. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n'Prag\u00e2pati, no other one than Thou (Rig-veda X, 121, 10).'\n15. The eighth (oblation) is that to (Agni) Svishtakrit.\n16 16. He should give to the Br\u00e2hmanas to eat: this has been said.\n205:1 4, 1. Comp. S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya III, 12 seqq. The four p. 206 months of Hemanta and Sisira are M\u00e2rgas\u00eersha, Pausha, M\u00e2gha, and Ph\u00e2lguna.\n206:2 The statement of the Prayogaratna that in case the sacrificer should celebrate only one Ashtak\u00e2 festival, the Ashtak\u00e2 of the M\u00e2gha month is to be selected, well agrees with the designation of this Ashtak\u00e2 as 'the one Ashtak\u00e2' (ek\u00e2shtak\u00e2); see Weber, Naxatra II, 341 seq.; Indische Studien, XV, 145.\n206:7 7 seqq. Comp. the nearly identical passage in S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya III, 14, 3 seqq. and the note there. \u00c2sval\u00e2yana evidently gives these rules not as regarding one special Ashtak\u00e2 but all of them.\n206:13 Comp. above, I, 11, 1. 2. 10. As to the Mantra, comp. S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana III, 13, 3.\n207:14 I read, as Prof. Stenzler and the Petersburg Dictionary do, sv\u00e2r\u00e2 kshar\u00e2ni. Comp. P\u00e2raskara III, 3, 6.\n208:16 See above, chap. 3, 13.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: II, 4","type":"page"}