{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29188.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29188.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29188.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1. On the full-moon day of Praushthapada the sacrifice to Indra.\n2 2. Having cooked milk-rice for Indra and cakes, and having put cakes round (the fire), he sacrifices the two \u00c2gya portions and \u00c2gya oblations to Indra, to Indr\u00e2n\u00ee, to Aga Ekapad, to Ahi Budhnya, and to the Proshthapad\u00e2s.\n3 3. After he has eaten (his portion of the sacrificial food), he offers a Bali to the Maruts. For the Sruti says, 'The Maruts eat what is not-sacrificed.'\n4 4. (This Bali he offers) in Asvattha leaves, because it is said, 'The Maruts stood in the Asvattha tree.'\n5 5. (He offers it) with (the texts), 'Brilliantly resplendent' (Var. Samh. XVII, 80-85), Mantra by Mantra,\n6 6. And with the (Mantra called) Vimukha.\n7. (This Mantra he repeats only) in his mind.\n8 8. For the Sruti says, 'These are their names.'\n9 9. He murmurs, 'To Indra the divine' (V\u00e2g. Samh. XVII, 86).\n10. Then (follows) the feeding of the Br\u00e2hmanas.\n331:2 15, 2. After these \u00c2gya oblations follows the chief oblation of the whole sacrifice, the oblation of milk-rice to Indra. In one of Professor Stenzler's MSS. there is a special S\u00fbtra inserted after S\u00fbtra 2, 'Of the cooked food he makes an oblation with (the formula), \"To Indra sv\u00e2h\u00e2.\"' I do not, however, think it right to receive this S\u00fbtra into the text, as the other MSS. do not support it, and the commentators did not find it in the text which they read.\n331:3 Professor Stenzler's translation, 'Die Maruts essen kein Opfer,' seems to me not quite exact. I should prefer to say, 'Die Maruts essen Nicht-Opfer.' This passage, taken from Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana IV, 5, 2, 16, is quoted as supporting the rule that a Bali offering should be made to the Maruts; for in the technical language the term ahuta is applied to Bali offerings (S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya I, 10, 7, huto\u093dgnihotrahomena, ahuto balikarman\u00e2).\n331:4 When Indra called them to his help against Vritra. Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana IV, 3, 3, 6.\n332:5 This S\u00fbtra is identical with the last words of K\u00e2ty. XVIII, 4, 23.\n332:6 This is the first part of V\u00e2g. Samh. XVII, 86.\n332:8 Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana IX, 3, I, 26. There it is said that sukragyotis ('brilliantly resplendent') &c. (the words used in V\u00e2g. Samh. XVII, 80) are names of the Maruts.\n332:9 This S\u00fbtra is identical with K\u00e2ty. XVIII, 4, 25.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): P\u00e2raskara-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: II, 15","type":"page"}