{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29182.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29182.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29182.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. Now (follow) the five great sacrifices.\n2 2. Of the Vaisvadeva food he should, after having sprinkled (water) round (the sacred fire), make oblations, with the word Sv\u00e2h\u00e2 (each time repeated), to Brahman, to Prag\u00e2pati, to the (deities) of the house, to Kasyapa, and to Anumati.\n3 3. To the domestic deities (he offers) three\n[paragraph continues] (Balis) in the water-pot: to Parganya, to the waters, to the Earth;\n4. To Dh\u00e2tri and Vidh\u00e2tri at the two doorposts;\n5. To the different quarters (of the horizon), to V\u00e2yu and (to the presiding deities) of the quarters;\n6. In the middle three (Balis) to Brahman, to the Air, to the Sun.\n7. To the north of those (he offers Balis) to the Visve dev\u00e2s and to all the beings;\n8. Further on to Ushas and to the Lord of beings;\n9. To the south (to the Fathers) with (the words), To the Fathers, Svadh\u00e2! Adoration!'\n10. Having rinsed out the vessel, he should pour it out towards the north-west with (the words), 'Consumption! this to thee!'\n11 11. Taking the Br\u00e2hmana's portion (of the food which he is going to distribute), he should give it to a Br\u00e2hmana, after he has made him wash himself, with (the words), 'Well! (this) to thee!'\n12. To (religious) mendicants and to guests they should apportion (food) as due to them.\n13. The persons belonging to the house, the young and the old, should eat what is due to them;\n14. Afterwards the householder and his wife.\n15 15. Or the householder (should eat) first, because\nthe Sruti says, 'Therefore the householder should eat the sweetest food before his guests.'\n16 16. Every day he should sacrifice with the word sv\u00e2h\u00e2. If he has no food (to offer, he should make his offering) with something else, be it even a piece of wood (only), to the gods, or be it (only) a water-pot, to the Fathers and to men.\n319:1 9, 1. The five Mah\u00e2yag\u00f1as are, the sacrifice to the gods, the sacrifice to living Beings, the sacrifice to the Fathers, the sacrifice to the Brahman, the sacrifice to men. As to the meaning of the five categories, see \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya III, 1.\n319:2 Compare above, I, 12, 3.\n319:3 Compare above, I, 12, 2.\n320:11 What I have translated 'the Br\u00e2hmana's portion' is agra. See on this word the remark of N\u00eelakantha quoted by B\u00f6htlingk-Roth sv. agrah\u00e2ra: agram br\u00e2hmanabhoganam, tadartham hriyante r\u00e2gadhan\u00e2t prithakkriyante te\u093dgrah\u00e2r\u00e2h kshetr\u00e2dayah. According to different commentators and lexicographers one Agra is equal to four or to sixteen mouthfuls of food.\n320:15 I cannot indicate any more than Professor Stenzler could, where the passage here quoted occurs in a Br\u00e2hmana.\n321:16 Comp. S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya II, 17, 2; Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana XI, 5, 6, 2.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): P\u00e2raskara-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: II, 9","type":"page"}