{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29191.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29191.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29191.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. (Now shall be explained) the partaking of the first-fruits (of the harvest), of a person who has not set up the (sacred Srauta) fires.\n2 2. He cooks a mess of fresh sacrificial food, sacrifices the two \u00c2gya portions, and two \u00c2gya oblations, (with the formulas),\n'To the hundredfold armed, hundredfold valiant, hundredfold blissful one, the vanquisher of enemies\u2014he who may create a hundred autumns for us, Indra,\u2014may he lead us across (the gulf of) misfortune. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n'The four paths that go between heaven and earth, trodden by the gods\u2014of these (paths) lead us to that which may bring us freedom from decay and decline, O all ye gods. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n3 3. Having made oblations of the mess of cooked food to the \u00c2grayana deities, he makes another oblation to (Agni) Svishtakrit with (the verse), 'Agni, make this (sacrifice) full, that it may be well offered. And may the god destroy all hostile powers. Come hither, showing us a good path. Bestow on us long life, full of splendour and free from decay. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n4. He then eats (of the fresh fruits with the\nverses), 'May Agni eat first, for he knows how the Havis (is fit for sacrifice); may he, the friend of all human tribes, make the herbs blessed to us.\nFrom the good you have led us to the better, ye gods! Through thee, the nourishment, may we obtain thee. Thus enter into us, O potion, bringing refreshment, for the good of our children and of ourselves, and pleasant.'\n5 5. Or with the (verse) sacred to Annapati (the Lord of food).\n6 6. For barley, however, (he uses the Mantra), 'This barley, mixed with honey, they have ploughed through Sarasvat\u00ee under Manu. Indra was lord of the plough, the hundredfold wise one; ploughers were the Maruts, the exuberant givers.'\n7. Then (follows) the feeding of the Br\u00e2hmanas.\n337:1 1, 1. The corresponding ceremony of the Srauta ritual is treated of in K\u00e2ty. IV, 6.\n337:2 A fresh Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ka means probably a Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ka prepared from the fresh grain of the new harvest.\n337:3 The deities of the \u00c2grayana ceremony, which occupies in the Srauta ritual the place corresponding to the rite described here, are Indra and Agni, the Visve dev\u00e2s, Heaven and Earth.\n338:5 The Annapat\u00eeya verse is V\u00e2g. Samh. XI, 83.\n338:6 Comp. man\u00e2v adhi, Rig-veda VIII, 72, 2.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): P\u00e2raskara-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: III, 1","type":"page"}