{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29156.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29156.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29156.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. The setting up of the \u00c2vasathya (or sacred domestic) fire (is performed) at the time of his wedding.\n2 2. At the time of the division of the inheritance, according to some (teachers).\n3 3 After he has fetched fire from the house of a Vaisya who is rich in cattle,\u2014\n4 4. All ceremonies are performed as at the cooking of the k\u00e2tushpr\u00e2sya food.\n5 5. Some (say that) the handing over of the kindling sticks (should take place),\n6 6. Because the Sruti says, 'There are five great sacrifices.'\n7 7. Having cooked a mess of sacrificial food for the deities of the Agny\u00e2dheya, and having sacrificed the two \u00c2gya portions, he sacrifices (the following) \u00c2gya oblations:\n8 8. 'Thou, Agni' (V\u00e2g. Samhit\u00e2 XXI, 3); 'Thus\nthou, Agni' (V\u00e2g. Samhit\u00e2 XXI, 4); 'This, O Varuna' (XXI, 1); 'For this I entreat thee' (XXI, 2); 'Thy hundred' (K\u00e2ty.-Sraut. XXV, 1, 11); 'And quick, Agni' (K\u00e2ty. l.l.); 'The highest one' (V\u00e2g. Samh. XII, 12); 'Be both to us' (ibid. V, 3)\u2014with (these verses he sacrifices) eight (oblations) before (the oblations of cooked food).\n9. Thus he sacrifices also afterwards, after he has made oblations of the mess of cooked food to the deities of the Agny\u00e2dheya.\n10. And to (Agni) Svishtakrit,\n11 11. With (the formulas), 'Into the quick one (has been put) Agni's (sacrificial portion) over which the word vashat has been spoken;' 'What I have done too much;' 'O gods who know the way.'\n12 12. Having sacrificed the Barhis, he partakes (of the sacrificial food).\n13. Then food is given to the Br\u00e2hmanas.\n270:1 2, 1. Comp. S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya I, 1, 3.\n271:2 S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana I, 1, 4.\n271:3 S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana I, 1, 8.\n271:4 The k\u00e2tushpr\u00e2sya food is prepared, at the time of the setting up of the Srauta fires, for the four chief officiating priests of the Srauta sacrifices. Comp. Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana II, 1, 4. K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana's corresponding rules with regard to the \u00c2dh\u00e2na of the Srauta fires are found at IV, 7, 15. 16.\n271:5 Comp. the remarks on this S\u00fbtra, in the Introduction, pp. 265 seq.\n271:6 Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana XI, 5, 6, 1: 'There are five great sacrifices which are great Sattras, viz. the sacrifice to living beings, the sacrifice to men, the sacrifice to the Manes, the sacrifice to the gods, the Brahmayag\u00f1a.' As the Grihya ceremonies are included here under the category of mah\u00e2yag\u00f1\u00e2s or great sacrifices, they require, according to the teachers whose opinion is stated in S\u00fbtra 5, a form of the Agny\u00e2dh\u00e2na (setting up of the sacred fire) analogous to the Agny\u00e2dh\u00e2na of the Srauta ritual, and containing, like that \u00c2dh\u00e2na, the act of the Araniprad\u00e2na or handing over of the kindling woods (S\u00fbtra 5).\n271:7 The deities of the Agny\u00e2dheya, or of the Srauta ceremony corresponding to the Grihya rite here treated of, are Agni pavam\u00e2na, Agni p\u00e2vaka, Agni suki, Aditi. On the \u00c2gyabh\u00e2gas, see S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana I, 9, 7, &c.\n271:8 The verses V\u00e2g. Samh. XXI, 3, 4, the two verses quoted p. 272 K\u00e2ty. XXV, 1, 11, and fifthly the verse V\u00e2g. Samh. XII, 12, are prescribed for the Sarvapr\u00e2yaskitta (or general expiatory ceremony), see K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana l.l.\n272:11 Professor Stenzler, following Gayar\u00e2ma, takes the whole as one Mantra, which he translates: 'Ungehemmet sei Agni's Spende, die durch die That ich \u00fcberreich machte, bahnschaffende G\u00f6tter!' But the words yat karman\u00e2tyar\u00eerikam are the opening words of a Mantra quoted Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana XIV, 9, 4, 24, (comp. also \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya I, 10, 23; the connection in which atyar\u00eerikam there stands, shows that the word designates a mistake made in the sacrificial work by doing too much.) The words dev\u00e2 g\u00e2tuvidah are the Prat\u00eeka of V\u00e2g. Samhit\u00e2 VIII, 21. Thus I have no doubt that also ay\u00e2sy Agner vashatkritam (or possibly ay\u00e2sy Agner (?) and vashatkritam (?)) is a Prat\u00eeka. Of course, the translation of these words must remain uncertain until the Mantra to which they belong has been discovered.\n272:12 On the throwing into the fire of the Barhis, comp. K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana III, 8.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): P\u00e2raskara-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: I, 2","type":"page"}