{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29199.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29199.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29199.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. Now the letting loose of the bull.\n2 2. (The ceremony) has been declared in the cow-sacrifice.\n3 3. (It is performed) on the full-moon day of K\u00e2rttika, or on the (day on which the moon stands in conjunction with) Revat\u00ee in the \u00c2svayuga month.\n4 4. Having set a fire in a blaze in the midst of the\ncows, and having prepared \u00c2gya, he sacrifices six (oblations) with (the Mantras), 'Here is delight' (V\u00e2g. Samh. VIII, 51).\n5 5. With (the verses), 'May P\u00fbshan go after our cows; may P\u00fbshan watch over our horses; may P\u00fbshan give us strength'\u2014he sacrifices of (the sacrificial food) destined for P\u00fbshan.\n6 6. After murmuring the Rudra hymns they adorn a one-coloured or a two-coloured (bull) who protects the herd or whom the herd protects. Or it should be red, deficient in no limb, the calf of a cow that has living calves and is a milk-giver; and it should be the finest (bull) in the herd. And besides they should adorn the best four young cows of the herd and let them loose with this (verse), 'This young (bull) I give you as your husband; run about sporting with him, your lover. Do not bring down a curse upon us, by nature blessed ones. May we rejoice in increase of wealth and in comfort.'\n7 7. When (the bull) stands in the midst of the cows, he recites over it (the texts beginning with) 'Bringing refreshment,' down to the end of the Anuv\u00e2ka (V\u00e2g. Samh. XVIII, 45-50).\n8. With the milk of all (the cows) he should cook milk-rice and give it to the Br\u00e2hmanas to eat.\n9 9_9. Some also sacrifice an animal.\n10 9_10. The ritual thereof has been declared by the (ritual for the) spit-ox.\n353:1 9, 1 seqq. Comp. S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana III, 11.\n353:2 See above, chap. 8, 15.\n353:3 S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana, loc. cit. \u00a7 2.\n353:4 S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana, \u00a7 3. Of course, in Professor Stenzler's translation, 'in der Mitte der K\u00fcche' is a misprint for 'in der Mitte der K\u00fche.'\n354:5 Rig-veda VI, 54, 5; S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana, \u00a7 5.\n354:6 S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana, \u00a7\u00a7 6-54. On the Rudra hymns, see above, chap. 8, \u00a7 13. Perhaps the words m\u00e2 nah s\u00e2pta are corrupt; the correct reading may possibly be, m\u00e2\u093dvasth\u00e2ta.\n354:7 S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana, \u00a7 15. There is no Mantra in the V\u00e2gasaneyi Samhit\u00e2 beginning with the word mayobh\u00fbh, but this word occurs in the middle of XVIII, 45 a; the texts which he recites begin at that word and extend down to the end of the Anuv\u00e2ka. It is clear that mayobh\u00fbh was intended in the original text, from which both S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana and P\u00e2raskara have taken this S\u00fbtra, as the Rik-Pratika, Rig-veda X, 169, 1.\n355:9_9 According to the commentators, a goat is sacrificed.\n355:9_10 See chap. 8.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): P\u00e2raskara-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: III, 9","type":"page"}