{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29144.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29144.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29144.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. If unknown danger from all sides (menaces him), he should sacrifice eight \u00c2gya oblations with (the formulas),\n'Prithiv\u00ee (the earth) is covered; she is covered by Agni. By her, the covered one, the covering one, I ward off the danger of which I am in fear. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n'Antariksha (the air) is covered; it is covered by V\u00e2yu. By it, the covered, the covering, I ward off the danger of which I am in fear. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n'Dyaus (the heaven) is covered; she is covered by \u00c2ditya (the sun). By her, &c.\n'The quarters (of the horizon) are covered; they are covered by Kandramas (the moon). By them, &c.\n'The waters are covered; they are covered by Varuna. By them, &c.\n'The creatures are covered; they are covered by Pr\u00e2na (the breath). By them, &c.\n'The Vedas are covered; they are covered by the metres. By them, &c.\n'All is covered; it is covered by Brahman. By it, &c. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n2 11_2. Then, stationing himself towards the north, east, he murmurs the Svasti-\u00c2treya and, 'Of what we are in fear, Indra' (Rig-veda VIII, 61, 13 seqq.), down to the end of the hymn.\n232:1 11, 1. 'Covered' is vrita; 'I ward off' is the causative of the same verb, v\u00e2raye.\n233:11_2 The Svasti-\u00c2treya is the part of the hymn V, 51, which very frequently contains the word svasti (vv. 11-15). There is a Khila appended to that hymn (Rig-veda, vol. iii, p. 30), which, according to N\u00e2r\u00e2yana, is also to be murmured on this occasion.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: III, 11","type":"page"}