{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29214.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29214.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29214.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1-4. By one who has not set up the sacred fires, a mess of cooked food, sacred to Agni, is offered at the festivals of the full and new moon;\n2. By one who has set them up, one sacred to Agni and Soma at the full moon;\n3. One sacred to Indra, or to Mahendra, or to Indra and Agni, at the new moon;\n4. Or as (the sacrifice is performed) by one who has not set up the sacred fires.\n5 5-14. The time at which the morning oblation may be offered, is the whole day;\n6. For the evening oblation the night;\n7. For the sacrifice of the full moon the whole second fortnight (of the month);\n2, 1. \u00c2gneya sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ko\u093dn\u00e2hit\u00e2gner darsap\u00fbrnam\u00e2sayor. 2. agn\u00eeshom\u00eeyah paurnam\u00e2sy\u00e2m \u00e2hit\u00e2gner. 3. aindro m\u00e2hendro vaindr\u00e2gno v\u00e2m\u00e2v\u00e2sy\u00e2y\u00e2m. 4. yath\u00e2 v\u00e2n\u00e2hit\u00e2gnes. 5. sarvam ahah pr\u00e2tar\u00e2hute sth\u00e2nam. 6. r\u00e2tris s\u00e2yam\u00e2hutes. 7. sarvo\u093dparapakshah paurnam\u00e2sasya.\n8. For the sacrifice of the new moon the first fortnight.\n9. Some say that he should keep his vow (until the sacrifice is performed) by abstaining from food.\n10. If (the proper) sacrificial food is wanting, let him offer fruits of sacrificially pure (plants or trees);\n11. Or leaves (of such plants or trees);\n12. Or water.\n13. For (even if he offers water) the sacrifice has been performed.\n14. A penance (is prescribed) for one who does not perform the sacrifice.\n15 15-16. If no Havis is indicated, one should offer \u00c2gya.\n16. The deity (only should be named), if no Mantra is indicated.\n17 17-23. In the third month of the first pregnancy (of the sacrificer's wife he should perform) the Pumsavana (i.e. the ceremony to secure the birth of a son).\n18. After she has bathed, her husband should put on her a (new) garment that has not yet been washed, and after having sacrificed he should stand behind her.\n19. Grasping down over her right shoulder he\n8. p\u00fbrvapaksho d\u00e2rsasy\u00e2. 9. bhoganena santanuy\u00e2d ity eke. 10. \u093dvidyam\u00e2ne havye yag\u00f1iy\u00e2n\u00e2m phal\u00e2ni guhuy\u00e2t. 11. pal\u00e2s\u00e2ni v\u00e2. 12. \u093dpo v\u00e2. 13. hutam hi. 14. pr\u00e2yaskittam ahutasy\u00e2. 15. \u093dgya\u00f1 guhuy\u00e2d dhavisho\u093dn\u00e2dese. 16. devat\u00e2 [corr. devat\u00e2m?] mantr\u00e2n\u00e2dese. 17. prathamagarbhe trit\u00eeye m\u00e2si pumsavanam. 18. sn\u00e2t\u00e2m ahaten\u00e2kh\u00e2dya hutv\u00e2 patih prishthatas tishthed. 19. dakshinam amsam anvabhimrisy\u00e2nantarhitam (\u00b0hit\u00e2m, \u00b0hit\u00e2n, the MSS.) n\u00e2bhidesam abhimriset pum\u00e2ms\u00e2v ity.\nshould touch the uncovered place of her navel with (the verse), 'The two men' (MB. I, 4, 8).\n20. Then another (ceremony). Having bought for three times seven barley corns or beans, a Nyagrodha-shoot which has fruits on both sides, which is not dry, and not touched by worms, he should set that up with (the formula), Ye herbs everywhere, being well-minded, bestow strength on this (shoot); for it will do its work.'\n21. He then should take it and place it in the open air.\n22. A girl, or a (wife) addicted (to her husband), or a student, or a Br\u00e2hman\u00ee should pound (that Nyagrodha-shoot) without moving backward (the stone with which she pounds it).\n23. (The husband) should make (the wife) who has bathed, lie down, and should insert (that pounded substance) into her right nostril with (the verse), 'A man is Agni' (MB. I, 4, 9).\n24 24-27. Then in the fourth or sixth month (of her pregnancy) the S\u00eemantonnayana (or parting of the hair is performed) for her.\n25. After she has bathed, her husband should put on her a garment that has not yet been washed,\n20. ath\u00e2param nyagrodhasu\u1e45g\u00e2m ubhayatahphal\u00e2m asr\u00e2m\u00e2m akrimiparisript\u00e2m trissaptair yavaih parikr\u00eeyotth\u00e2payen m\u00e2shair v\u00e2 sarvatraushadhayas sumanaso bh\u00fbtv\u00e2 (hutv\u00e2, hutv\u00e2m the MSS.) \u093dsy\u00e2m v\u00eeryam sam\u00e2dhatteyam karma karishyat\u00eety. 21. \u00e2hritya vaih\u00e2yas\u00eem kury\u00e2t. 22. kum\u00e2r\u00ee vratavat\u00ee brahmak\u00e2r\u00ee br\u00e2hman\u00ee v\u00e2 peshayed apraty\u00e2harant\u00ee. 23. sn\u00e2t\u00e2m samvesya dakshine n\u00e2sik\u00e2srotasy \u00e2si\u00f1ket pum\u00e2n Agnir ity. 24. ath\u00e2sy\u00e2s katurthe m\u00e2si shashthe v\u00e2 s\u00eemantonnayanam. 25. sn\u00e2t\u00e2m ahaten\u00e2kh\u00e2dya hutv\u00e2 patih prishthatas tishthann anup\u00fbrvay\u00e2 phalavrikshas\u00e2khay\u00e2 sakrit s\u00eemantam unnayet trisvetay\u00e2 salaly\u00e2yam \u00fbrg\u00e2vato vriksha iti.\nand after having sacrificed, he should stand behind her and should part her hair once with a well-proportioned (?) branch of a tree, on which there are fruits, (and) with a porcupine's quill that has three white spots, with (the verse), 'Rich in sap is this tree' (MB. I, 5, 1).\n26. While she looks at a mess of boiled rice with sesamum seeds, covered with ghee, he should ask her, 'What dost thou see?'\n27. He should make her reply, 'Offspring!'\n28 28-34. When the child is appearing, the sacrifice for the woman in labour (is to be performed)\u2014\n29. With the two verses, 'She who athwart' (MB. I, 5, 6 seq.).\n30. He should give a name to the child, 'N.N.!'\n31. That (is his) secret (name).\n32. Before the navel-string is cut off and the breast is given (to the child, the father) should have rice and barley grains pounded in the way prescribed for the Nyagrodha-shoot (see S\u00fbtra 22).\n33. He should take thereof with his (right) thumb and fourth finger and give it to the child to eat, with (the formula), 'This order' (MB. I, 5, 8).\n34. And butter with (the verse), 'May intelligence to thee' (MB. I, 5, 9).\n26. krisarasth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2kam uttaraghritam aveksha[n]t\u00eem prikkhet kim pasyas\u00eeti. 27. prag\u00e2m iti v\u00e2kayet. 28. pratishthite vastau soshyant\u00eehomah. 29. y\u00e2 tirask\u00eeti dv\u00e2bhy\u00e2m. 30. as\u00e2v iti n\u00e2ma dadhy\u00e2t. 31. tad guhyam. 32. pr\u00e2\u1e45 n\u00e2bhikrintan\u00e2t stanad\u00e2n\u00e2k ka vr\u00eehiyavau peshayek khu\u1e45g\u00e2vrit\u00e2. 33. \u093d\u1e45gushthen\u00e2n\u00e2mikay\u00e2 k\u00e2d\u00e2ya kum\u00e2ram pr\u00e2sayed iyam \u00e2g\u00f1eti. 34. sarpis ka medh\u00e2n ta iti.\n392:1-4 2, 1-4 = Gobhila I, 8, 22-25.\n392:5-14 5-14 = I, 9, 14 seqq.\n393:15-16 15, 16 desunt.\n393:17-23 17-23 = II, 6.\n394:24-27 24-27 = II, 7, 1 seqq.\n395:28-34 28-34 = II, 7, 13 seqq.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: II, 2","type":"page"}