{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29159.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29159.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29159.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1. Having led her around the fire, keeping it on his right side, according to some (teachers)\u2014\n2. Having pushed with his right foot a bundle of grass or a mat to the west of the fire, he sits down.\n3 3. While (the bride) touches him, (the following oblations are made:) the two \u00c2gh\u00e2ra oblations, the two \u00c2gya portions, the Mah\u00e2vy\u00e2hritis, the general expiation, the Pr\u00e2g\u00e2patya oblation, and the Svishtakrit.\n4. These are regular (oblations) at every sacrifice.\n5. The Svishtakrit comes before the Mah\u00e2vy\u00e2hritis, if the sacrificial food is different from \u00c2gya.\n6 6. The place for the insertion (of the peculiar oblations belonging to the different sacrifices) is the interval between the general expiation and the oblation to Prag\u00e2pati.\n7. At the wedding (he may make oblations) with the R\u00e2shtrabhrit formulas (i.e. the formulas procuring royal power), if he likes, and with the Gaya and Abhy\u00e2t\u00e2na formulas (i.e. the formulas procuring\nvictory, and aiming [at the hostile powers]), if he knows them\u2014\n8 8. Because it has been said, 'By what sacrifice he wishes to attain success.'\n9 9. (The Gaya formulas run thus): 'Thought and thinking. Intention and intending. The understood and understanding. The mind and the Sakvar\u00ee (verses). The new moon and the full moon. Brihat and Rathantara.\n'Prag\u00e2pati, the powerful one in victorious battles, has given victories (or, the Gaya formulas) to manly Indra. To him all subjects bowed down; he has become powerful and worthy of sacrifice. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n10 10. (The Abhy\u00e2t\u00e2na formulas run thus): 'May Agni, the lord of beings, protect me. May Indra, (the lord) of the noblest, Yama, of the earth, V\u00e2yu, of the air, the Sun, of heaven, the Moon, of the Nakshatras, Brihaspati, of the Brahman, Mitra, of truth, Varuna, of the waters, the sea, of the rivers, food, the lord of royalty, protect me. May Soma, (the lord) of herbs, Savitri, of impulses, Rudra, of cattle, Tvashtri, of forms, Vishnu, of mountains, the Maruts, the lords of hosts, protect me. May the fathers,\nthe grandfathers, the former, the later, the fathers, the grandfathers protect me here in this power of holiness, in this worldly power, in this prayer, in this Purohitaship, in this sacrifice, in this invocation of the gods. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\u2014this is added each time.\n11. (He then makes other oblations with the following texts:)\n'May Agni come hither, the first of gods. May he release the offspring of this wife from the fetter of death. That may this king Varuna grant, that this wife may not weep over distress (falling to her lot) through her sons. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n'May Agni G\u00e2rhapatya protect this woman. May he lead her offspring to old age. With fertile womb may she be the mother of living children. May she experience delight in her sons. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n'Make, Agni, all ways of heaven and earth blissful to us, O thou who art worthy of sacrifices. What is great, born on this (earth); and praised, (born) in heaven, that bestow on us, rich treasures. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n'Come hither, showing us an easy path. Give us bright, undecaying life. May death go away; may immortality come to us. May Vivasvat's son make us safe from danger. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n12. And the (verse), 'Another way, O death' (V\u00e2g. Samh. XXXV, 7), after the eating (of the remnant of the sacrificial food), according to some (teachers).\n279:3 5, 3. See the note on S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya I, 9, 12.\n279:6 See the note l.l.\u2014I have altered the division of S\u00fbtras 6 and 7, so as to draw the word viv\u00e2he to the seventh S\u00fbtra. The rule in \u00a7 6 has an entirely general character; the formulas stated in \u00a7 7 are given for the particular occasion of the viv\u00e2ha ceremony.\n280:8 Taittir\u00eeya Samhit\u00e2 III, 4, 6, 1: 'By what sacrifice he wishes to attain success, at that (sacrifice) he should make oblations with them (i.e. with the Abhy\u00e2t\u00e2na Mantras): then he will attain success by that sacrifice.'\n280:9 Instead of sa i havyah we ought to read probably sa u havyah, or, as the Taitt. Samh. III, 4, 4, 1 gives, sa hi havyah. The Maitr. Samh. has vihavyah (II, 10, 2).\n280:10 The words, 'in this power of holiness . . . sv\u00e2h\u00e2!' are to be added to each member of the whole formula (comp. Atharva-veda V, 24). The expressions 'fathers' and 'grandfathers,' which are twice identically repeated in the translation, stand the first time for pitarah pit\u00e2mah\u00e2h, and then for tat\u00e2s tat\u00e2mah\u00e2h of the Sanskrit text.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): P\u00e2raskara-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: I, 5","type":"page"}