{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29149.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29149.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29149.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1. He gives order, 'Light the fires together.'\n2 2. If the \u00c2havan\u00eeya fire reaches (the body) first, he should know, 'It has reached him in the heaven-world. He will live there in prosperity, and so will this one, i.e. his son, in this world.'\n3 3. If the G\u00e2rhapatya fire reaches (the body) first, he should know, 'It has reached him in the air-world. He will live there in prosperity, and so will this one, i.e. his son, in this world.'\n4 4. If the Dakshina fire reaches (the body) first, he should know, 'It has reached him in the world of men. He will live there in prosperity, and so will this one, i.e. his son, in this world.'\n5 5. If (the three fires) reach (the body) in the same moment, they say that this signifies the highest luck.\n6 6. While (the body) is burning, he recites over it the same texts, 'Go on, go on, on the ancient paths' (Rig-veda X, 14, 7).\n7. Being burnt by a person who knows this, he goes to the heaven-world together with the smoke (of the funeral pile)\u2014thus it is understood (in the Sruti).\n8 8. To the north-east of the \u00c2havan\u00eeya fire he should have a knee-deep pit dug and should have an Avak\u00e2, i.e. (the water-plant called) S\u00eep\u00e2la put down into it. From that (pit) he (i.e. the deceased) goes out and together with the smoke he goes up to the heaven-world\u2014thus it is understood (in the Sruti).\n9. After he has recited (the verse), 'These living ones have separated from the dead' (Rig-veda X, 18, 3), they turn round from right to left and go away without looking back.\n10 10. When they have come to a place where standing water is, having once (plunged into it and) emerged\nfrom it, they pour out one handful (of water), pronounce the Gotra name and the proper name (of the deceased), go out (of the water), put on other garments, wring out (the old garments) once, lay them away with their skirts to the north, and sit down until the stars appear.\n11. Or they may enter (their houses), when still (a part) of the sun-disk is seen,\n12 12. The younger ones first, the older ones last.\n13. When they have come to the houses, they touch a stone, the fire, cow's dung, fried barley, sesamum seeds, and water.\n14. Let them not cook food during that night.\n15 15. Let them subsist on bought or ready-made food.\n16. Let them eat no saline food for three nights.\n17 17. Let them optionally for twelve nights avoid the distribution of gifts and the study (of Vedic texts), if one of the chief Gurus (has died).\n18 18. Ten days after (the death of) Sapindas,\n19. And of a Guru who is no Sapinda,\n20. And of unmarried female relations.\n21 21. Three nights after (the death of) other teachers,\n22. And of a relation who is no Sapinda,\n23. And of married female relations,\n24. Of a child that has no teeth,\n25. And of a dead-born child.\n26. One day, after (the death of) a fellow-pupil,\n27. And of a Srotriya of the same village.\n242:2 4, 2. Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana XII, 5, 2, 10.\n242:3 Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana l.l. \u00a7 9.\n243:4 Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana l.l. \u00a7 11.\n243:5 Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana l.l. \u00a7 12.\n243:6 'The same texts' means that the texts indicated in the Srauta-s\u00fbtra VI, 10, 19 (twenty-four verses taken from the hymns X, 14, 16, 17, 18, 154) have to be recited.\n243:8 Comp. above, II, 8, 14.\n243:10 'All the Sam\u00e2nodaka relations (see Manu V, 60), men and women, should pour out one handful of water each. Pronouncing p. 244 the Gotra name and the proper name of the deceased, saying, for instance, \"Devadatta, belonging to the Gotra of the K\u00e2syapas, this water is for thee!\"\u2014they sprinkle it out, with southward-turned faces.' N\u00e2r\u00e2yana.\n244:12 Possibly praviseyuh (they should enter) belongs to this S\u00fbtra. In Prof. Stenzler's edition and in the commentary of N\u00e2r\u00e2yana it is taken as belonging to S\u00fbtra 11.\n244:15 Vasishtha IV, 15. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana here observes, 'Some authorities omit this S\u00fbtra.'\n244:17 'Father and mother and the teacher who, after having performed the Upanayana for him, has taught him the whole Veda, are the chief Gurus. When these have died, they should avoid giving gifts and studying the Veda either for twelve nights, or for ten nights, this rule standing in correlation with the following one.' N\u00e2r\u00e2yana.\n244:18 The Sapinda relationship is generally defined as the relationship within six degrees, though the statements in the different p. 245 texts do not exactly agree. See \u00c2pastamba II, 15, -2; Manu V, 60; Gautama XIV, 13 (with Prof. B\u00fchler's note, Sacred Books, vol. ii, p. 247, &c.).\n245:21 Comp. S\u00fbtras 17, 19.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: IV, 4","type":"page"}