{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29138.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29138.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29138.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1. Now (follows) the Adhy\u00e2yop\u00e2karana (i.e. the ceremony by which the annual course of study is opened);\n2 2-3. When the herbs appear, (when the moon stands in conjunction) with Sravana, in the Sr\u00e2vana month,\n3. Or on the fifth (Tithi of that month), under (the Nakshatra) Hasta.\n4 4. Having sacrificed the two \u00c2gya portions, he should offer \u00c2gya oblations (to the following deities, viz.) S\u00e2vitr\u00ee, Brahman, Belief, Insight, Wisdom, Memory, Sadasaspati, Anumati, the metres, and the Rishis.\n5. He then sacrifices grains with curds (with the following texts):\n6. 'I praise Agni the Purohita'\u2014this one verse (Rig-Veda I, 1, 1),\n7 7. 'The Kushumbhaka (mungoose?) has said it'\u2014'If thou criest, O bird, announce luck to us Sung by Gamadagni'\u2014'In thy abode the whole world rests'\n[paragraph continues] \u2014'Come to our sacrifice, O you that are worthy of sacrifice, with care'\u2014'Whosoever, be he ours, be he alien'\u2014'Look on, look about'\u2014'Come here, Agni, the Maruts' friend'\u2014'The oblation, O king, cooked for thee'\u2014each time two verses;\n8. 'United is your will' (Rig-veda X, 191, 4)\u2014this one verse;\n9 9. 'That blessing and bliss we choose'\u2014this one verse.\n10 10. When he intends to study (the Veda together with pupils), he should, while the pupils take hold of him, sacrifice to those deities, and sacrifice to (Agni) Svishtakrit, and partake of the grains with curds; then (follows) the 'cleaning.'\n11 11. Sitting down to the west of the fire on Darbha grass, the tufts of which are directed towards the east, he should put Darbha blades into a water-pot, and making a Brahm\u00e2\u00f1gali (i.e. joining his hands as a sign of veneration for the Brahman), he should murmur (the following texts):\n12. The Vy\u00e2hritis preceded by (the syllable) Om (stand first); (these) and the S\u00e2vitr\u00ee he should repeat three times and then recite the beginning of the Veda.\n13. In the same way at the Utsarga (i.e. at the ceremony performed at the end of the term of Vedic study).\n14. He should study six months.\n15 15. One who has performed the Sam\u00e2vartana (should live during that time) according to the regulations for Brahmak\u00e2rins.\n16 16. The others according to the rules.\n17 17. Some say that he should have intercourse with his wife.\n18. That (is a practice) sacred to Prag\u00e2pati.\n19. This (Up\u00e2karana) they call v\u00e2rshika (i.e. belonging to the rainy season).\n20 20. On the middle Ashtak\u00e2 they offer food to those deities, and descend into water.\n21. They satiate those same deities (with water oblations),\n22. (And besides) the \u00c2k\u00e2ryas, the Rishis, and the Fathers.\n23 23. This is the Utsargana.\n221:2-3 5, 2, 3. Perhaps the division of these S\u00fbtras should be altered, so that sr\u00e2vanasya would belong to S\u00fbtra 2. In this case we should have to translate, '2. When the herbs appear, (on a day on which the moon stands in conjunction) with Sravana. 3. Or on the fifth (Tithi) of the Sr\u00e2vana month, under (the Nakshatra) Hasta.' Comp. sr\u00e2vanasya pa\u00f1kam\u00eem, Par. II, 10, 2. If we count the month beginning with the bright fortnight, and assume that the full moon day of Sr\u00e2vana falls, as the name of the month implies, on Sravana, the fifth Tithi of that month will fall indeed on Hasta. Comp. on the dates of the Up\u00e2karana, Prof. Weber's remarks, Die vedischen Nachrichten von den Naxatra II, 322, and on the special symbolical signification of the Nakshatra Sravana in this connection, my note on S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana IV, 5, 2.\n221:4 On the two \u00c2gya portions, comp. above, I, 3, 5; 10, 13 seqq.\n221:7 Comp. S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana IV, 5, 8. The verses with which the oblations are performed, are the first and last verses of each Mandala.\n222:9 This is the last verse of the Rik-Samhit\u00e2 in the B\u00e2shkala S\u00e2kh\u00e2. See my note on S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana IV, 5, 9.\n222:10 The expression, 'Those deities' would, according to N\u00e2r\u00e2yana, refer not only to the deities stated in S\u00fbtra 4, but also to the deities of the first and last verses of the Mandalas (S\u00fbtras 6 seqq.). On the grains with curds, comp. S\u00fbtra 5. The technical sense of the 'cleaning' is explained in the Srauta-s\u00fbtra I, 8, 2; comp. Hillebrandt, Das altindische Neu- and Vollmondsopfer, p. 130, note 1. The sacrificer covers his joined hands with the Kusa grass spread out round the fire, and has water sprinkled on them.\n222:11 On the term brahm\u00e2\u00f1gali, comp. Manu II, 71.\n223:15 On the Sam\u00e2vartana, see below, chap. 8 seq. The restrictions referred to consist in the interdiction of eating honey and meat, of having sexual intercourse, of sleeping in a bedstead and in the day-time, &c. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana.\n223:16 I.e. the Brahmak\u00e2rins.\n223:17 I.e. one who has performed the Sam\u00e2vartana.\n223:20 After the six months (S\u00fbtra 14) have elapsed, on the Ashtak\u00e2 of M\u00e2gha.\n223:23 Or Utsarga, see S\u00fbtra 13.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: III, 5","type":"page"}