{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29163.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29163.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29163.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. Beginning from the wedding the worshipping of the Aup\u00e2sana (i.e. sacred domestic) fire (is prescribed).\n2 2. After sunset and before sunrise (the fire should\nbe worshipped) with (oblations of) curds, (rice) grains, or fried grains.\n3. (He sacrifices) in the evening with (the formulas), 'To Agni sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To Prag\u00e2pati sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n4. In the morning with (the formulas), 'To S\u00fbrya sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To Prag\u00e2pati sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n5 5. 'Men are both Mitra and Varuna; men are both the Asvins; men are Indra and S\u00fbrya. May a man be born in me! Again sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\u2014with (this verse) a wife who desires to conceive, (should offer) the first (oblation).\n286:1 9, 1. The expression which I have translated 'beginning from the wedding' is upayamanaprabhriti. The Indian commentators and Professor Stenzler explain the term upayamana as implying a reference to the S\u00fbtra I, 1, 4, upayaman\u00e2n kus\u00e2n \u00e2d\u00e2ya ('having taken up the Kusa blades with which he is to take hold of the lower surface of the \u00c2gya pot'). 'The worshipping of the domestic fire,' says Stenzler, following the native authorities, 'consists in the rites which have been prescribed above (I, 1, 4), beginning from the word upayamana, i.e. in the taking up of the Kusa blades, the putting of wood on the fire, the sprinkling and sacrificing. As the rites preceding that word, such as the preparation of the sacrificial spoon (I, 1, 3), are hereby excluded, the oblations are offered with the hand.' It would be easy to show that the upayaman\u00e2h kus\u00e2h have nothing at all to do with the regular morning and evening oblations of which these S\u00fbtras treat. The comparison of \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya I, 9, 1 (see also Manu III, 67, &c.) leaves no doubt that upayamana is to be understood here as derived from upayakkhati in its very frequent meaning of marrying. I have translated the S\u00fbtra accordingly.\n286:2 On the different statements of Vedic authors with regard to the proper time of the morning oblations, see Weber's Indische Studien, X, 329.\n287:5 Comp. S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya I, 17, 9, where the reading and the construction slightly differ. The words punah sv\u00e2h\u00e2 at the end of the Mantra seem to be corrupt; the frequent repetition of pum\u00e2msam and pum\u00e2n through the whole verse suggests the correction pumse sv\u00e2h\u00e2, or pumbhyah sv\u00e2h\u00e2, 'to the man sv\u00e2h\u00e2!' or 'to the men sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): P\u00e2raskara-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: I, 9","type":"page"}