{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29145.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29145.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29145.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1. When a battle is beginning, (the royal Purohita) should cause the king to put on his armour (in the following way).\n2 12_2. (The Purohita) stations himself to the west of (the king's) chariot with (the hymn?), 'I have brought thee hither; be here' (Rig-veda X, 173).\n3. With (the verse), 'Like a thunder-cloud is his countenance' (Rig-veda VI, 75, 1), he should tender the coat of mail to him.\n4. With the following (verse) the bow.\n5. The following (verse) he should cause him to repeat.\n6. He should murmur himself the fourth.\n7. With the fifth he should tender the quiver to him.\n8. When (the king) starts, the sixth.\n9. The seventh (he recites) over the horses.\n10. The eighth he should cause (the king) to repeat while looking at the arrows;\n11. (The verse), 'Like a serpent it encircles the arm with its windings' (Rig-veda VI, 75, 14), when he ties to his arm the leather (by which the arm is protected against the bow-string).\n12 12. He then mounts up to (the king on his chariot), while he is driving, and causes him to repeat the Abh\u00eevarta hymn (Rig-veda X, 174) and the two verses, 'He who, Mitra and Varuna' (Rig-veda VIII, 101, 3 seq.).\n13 13. He then should look at him with the Apratiratha, S\u00e2sa, and Sauparna hymns.\n14 14. The Sauparna is (the hymn), 'May the streams of honey and ghee flow forwards.'\n15. (The king) should drive (in his chariot successively) to all quarters (of the horizon).\n16. He should commence the battle in the line of battle invented by \u00c2ditya or by Usanas.\n17 17-18. He should touch the drum with the three verses, 'Fill earth and heaven with thy roar' (Rig-veda VI, 47, 29 seqq.).\n18. With (the verse), 'Shot off fall down' (Rig-veda VI, 75, 16), he should shoot off the arrows.\n19 19. 'Where the arrows fly' (l.l. v. 17)\u2014this (verse) he should murmur while they are fighting.\n20. Or he should teach (the king the texts mentioned). Or he should teach (the king).\nEnd of the Third Adhy\u00e2ya.\n233:12_2 12, 2. According to N\u00e2r\u00e2yana the Prat\u00eeka here signifies not the verse, but the whole hymn, though a whole P\u00e2da is given (comp. Srauta-s\u00fbtra I, 1, 17).\n234:12 The Abh\u00eevarta hymn begins with the word abh\u00eevartena, and is ascribed to Abh\u00eevarta \u00c2\u1e45girasa.\n234:13 The Apratiratha hymn is Rig-veda X, 103 (ascribed to Apratiratha Aindra); the S\u00e2sa, X, 152 (ascribed to S\u00e2sa Bh\u00e2radv\u00e2ga). On the Sauparna, see the next S\u00fbtra.\n234:14 This hymn is not found in any Vedic Samhit\u00e2, as far s I know, nor does it occur in the Suparn\u00e2dhy\u00e2ya. I have followed Prof. Stenzler's conjecture pra dh\u00e2r\u00e2 yantu instead of pradh\u00e2rayantu, which is confirmed by S\u00e2yana's note on Aitareya Br\u00e2hmana VI, 25, 7; VIII, 10, 4 (pp. 365, 399 ed. Aufrecht).\n234:17-18 17, 18. According to N\u00e2r\u00e2yana the subject is the king.\n235:19 Here the subject is the Purohita.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: III, 12","type":"page"}