{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29175.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29175.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29175.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1. He should initiate a Br\u00e2hmana, when he is eight years old, or in the eighth year after the conception,\n2. \u00c2sval\u00e2yana, when he is eleven years old,\n3. A Vaisya, when he is twelve years old.\n4. Or according as it is considered auspicious by all (the different families).\n5. He should feed the Br\u00e2hmanas. And they lead him (i.e. the boy who is to be initiated) on, with his head shaven all round, and decked with ornaments.\n6 6. (The teacher) makes him place himself to the west of the fire and say, 'I have come hither for the sake of studentship (brahmakarya).' And, 'I will be a student (brahmak\u00e2rin).'\n7. He then makes him put on a garment with (the verse), 'In the way in which Brihaspati put the garment of immortality on Indra, thus I put (this garment) on thee, for the sake of long life, of old age, of strength, of splendour.'\n8 8. He ties round him the girdle with (the verse which the youth recites), 'Here has come to me, keeping away evil words, purifying my kind as a purifier, clothing herself, by (the power of) inhalation and exhalation, with strength, this sisterly goddess, this blessed girdle.'\n9 9. Or, 'A youth, well attired, dressed, came hither. He, being born, becomes glorious. Wise sages extol him, devout ones, turning their minds to the gods.'\n10. Or silently.\n11. He gives him the staff.\n12. (The student) accepts it with (the verse), 'My staff which fell down to the ground in the open air, that I take up again for the sake of long life, of holiness, of holy lustre.'\n13 13. According to some (teachers he accepts the staff) in the way prescribed for the inauguration, because it is said, 'He enters upon a long Sattra (or sacrificial period).'\n14. (The teacher) then with his joined hands fills (the student's) joined hands with water with the three (verses), 'Ye waters are' (V\u00e2g. Samh. XI, 50 seqq.).\n15 15. He then makes him look at the sun with (the verse), 'That eye' (V\u00e2g. Samh. XXXVI, 24).\n16 16. He then touches his heart, (reaching) over his right shoulder, with (the words), 'Into my will I take thy heart, &c.'\n17 17. He then seizes (the student's) right hand and says, 'What is thy name?\n18. He replies, 'I am N.N., sir!'\n19. He then says to him, 'Whose pupil (brahmak\u00e2rin) art thou?'\n20 20. After (the student) has said, 'Yours!'\u2014(the\nteacher replies,) 'Indra's pupil art thou; Agni is thy teacher; I am thy teacher, N.N.!'\n21. He then gives him in charge to living beings with (the formulas), 'To Prag\u00e2pati I give thee in charge. To the god Savitri I give thee in charge. To the waters, the herbs I give thee in charge. To Heaven and Earth I give thee in charge. To the Visve dev\u00e2s I give thee in charge. To all beings I give thee in charge for the sake of freedom from harm.'\n304:6 6 seqq. Comp. Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana XI, 5, 4.\n304:8 The commentators differ as to whether the \u00c2k\u00e2rya or the youth should recite the verse. The comparison of S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana II, 2, 1 would rather tend to show that it is the teacher, but Gobhila II, 10 says expressly: athainam trih pradakshinam mu\u00f1gamekhal\u00e2m pariharan v\u00e2kayat\u00eeyam durukt\u00e2t parib\u00e2dham\u00e2nety ritasya goptr\u00eeti v\u00e2.\n304:9 Rig-veda III, 8, 4. The verse is originally addressed to Agni.\n305:13 Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana XI, 3, 3, 2: 'He enters upon a long Sattra, who enters upon Brahmakarya.' The student, when being initiated, ought to behave, consequently, in the same way as those who receive the inauguration (d\u00eeksh\u00e2) for a long Sattra. This is the meaning of this S\u00fbtra. The rules regarding the staff handed over by the Adhvaryu to the Yagam\u00e2na at the d\u00eeksh\u00e2 ceremony are given by K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana, Srauta-s\u00fbtra VII, 4, 1-4.\n305:15 See above, I, 8, 7.\n305:16 See above, I, 8, 8.\n305:17 17 seqq. Comp. Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana XI, 5, 4, 1 seqq.\n305:20 The words 'I am thy teacher' are omitted in one of Professor Stenzler's MSS. and in his translation. But they are given in the parallel passage of the Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana. The p. 306 parallel passage in S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana (Grihya II, 3, 1) also runs thus: Agnir \u00e2k\u00e2ryas tava, as\u00e2v, aham kobhau.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): P\u00e2raskara-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: II, 2","type":"page"}