{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29201.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29201.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29201.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. If an animal (is to be sacrificed), let him wash it, if it is not a cow; let him walk round the fires and drive in front (of them) a Pal\u00e2sa branch into the ground.\n2 2. The winding (of a Kusa rope) round (that branch), the touching (of the animal with the grass-blade), the binding (of it to the branch), and the sprinkling (of the animal with water) should be performed in the way prescribed (in the Srauta-s\u00fbtra), and whatever else (is to be done).\n3 3. After he has sacrificed the two oblations before and after the killing of the animal, (he) silently (sacrifices) five other (oblations, directed to Prag\u00e2pati).\n4 4. And the omentum is taken out (of the killed animal). He should besprinkle it (with water) and name the deity (to whom the sacrifice is directed).\n5 5. (He should name that deity also) at the touching (of the animal with the grass-blade), at (its) being bound (to the branch), at its being sprinkled (with water), and at (the preparation and oblation) of the mess of cooked food.\n6. After he has sacrificed the omentum, he cuts off the Avad\u00e2na portions,\n7 7. All of them, or three, or five.\n8 8. He sacrifices the Avad\u00e2na portions together with the mess of cooked food.\n9. A limb of the animal is the sacrificial fee.\n10 10-11. At (a sacrifice) directed to a special deity he should sacrifice (an animal) belonging to that deity, should make a portion for that (god), and should say to him (i.e. to the messenger who is to convey that offering to a place sacred to that deity): 'Take care that this may reach that (god).'\n11. If there is a river between (the sacrificer and that sacred place), he may have a boat made, or he may dispense with this.\n360:1 11, 1. The branch replaces the sacrificial post (y\u00fbpa) of the Srauta ritual. As to agrena, comp. K\u00e2ty.-Sraut. VI, 2, 11 and the commentary.\n360:2 See K\u00e2ty.-Sraut. VI, 3, 15 on the parivyayana, ibid. \u00a7\u00a7 19, 26 on the up\u00e2karana, \u00a7 27 on the niyogana, \u00a7 33 on the prokshana.\n360:3 K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana VI, 5, 22: He sacrifices (\u00c2gya) with the words, Sv\u00e2h\u00e2 to the gods.' \u00a7 24: He sacrifices (\u00c2gya) with the words, To the gods sv\u00e2h\u00e2.' In the commentary on \u00a7 25 these two oblations are called paripasavy\u00e2hut\u00ee.\n360:4 See K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana VI, 6, 13; \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya I, 11, 10.\n360:5 See above, S\u00fbtra 2.\n361:7 The complete number of the Avad\u00e2nas (i.e. the portions of the killed animal which have to be cut off, such as the heart, the tongue, &c.) is eleven; see K\u00e2ty.-Sraut. VI, 7, 6; \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya I, II, 12.\n361:8 \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya, loc. cit. \u00a7 13.\n361:10-11 10, 11. The way for interpreting these S\u00fbtras is shown by \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya I, 12. I do not think that they have anything to do, as Gayar\u00e2ma states, with reference to S\u00fbtra II, with the offering due to a relative who has died while being absent on a journey (chap. 10, 44).","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): P\u00e2raskara-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: III, 11","type":"page"}