{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29216.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29216.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29216.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. Let him initiate a Br\u00e2hmana in his eighth year.\n2. For him the time (for being initiated) has not passed until his sixteenth (year).\n3. In the eleventh a Kshatriya.\n4, 1. ashtame varshe br\u00e2hmanam upanayet. 2. tasy\u00e2 shodas\u00e2d anat\u00eetah k\u00e2la. 3. ek\u00e2dase kshatriyam.\n4. For him (the time has not passed) until the twenty-second.\n5. In the twelfth a Vaisya.\n6. For him (the time has not passed) until the twenty-fourth.\n7. After (the student's) hair has been arranged, and he has been adorned, and dressed in a garment which has not yet been washed, (the teacher) should sacrifice with (the Mantras which the student recites), 'Agni! Lord of the vow!' (MB. I, 6, 9-13.)\n8. He should cause (the student) to stand northwards of the fire, facing the west, and to join his hands.\n9. And he should himself join his hands above (the student's hands).\n10. A Br\u00e2hmana versed in the Mantras who stands towards the south, should fill the teacher's joined hands with water.\n11. While (the student?) looks at him, (the teacher) should murmur (the Mantra), 'With him who comes to us' (MB. I, 6, 14).\n12. (The student) to whom (the teacher) has said, 'What is thy name?' should pronounce a name which he is to use at respectful salutations, derived from (the name of) a deity or a Nakshatra, 'I am N.N.!' (l.l. 17.)\n4. tasy\u00e2 dv\u00e2vims\u00e2d. 5. dv\u00e2dase vaisyam. 6. tasy\u00e2 katurvims\u00e2t. 7. kusal\u00eekritam alamkritam ahaten\u00e2kh\u00e2dya hutv\u00e2gne vratapata ity. 8. uttarato\u093dgneh pratya\u1e45mukham avasth\u00e2py\u00e2\u00f1galim k\u00e2rayet. 9. svayam kopari kury\u00e2d. 10. dakshinatas tishthan mantrav\u00e2n br\u00e2hmana \u00e2k\u00e2ry\u00e2yodak\u00e2\u00f1galim p\u00fbrayed. 11. \u00e2gantreti gapet preksham\u00e2ne [sic]. 12. ko n\u00e2m\u00e2s\u00eety ukto devat\u00e2srayam nakshatr\u00e2srayam v\u00e2bhiv\u00e2dan\u00eeyam n\u00e2ma br\u00fby\u00e2d as\u00e2v asm\u00eety.\n13. Having let the water run (out of his joined hands over the student's hands) the teacher should seize with his two hands, holding the right uppermost, (the student's) joined hands, with (the formula), By the impulse of the god S\u00e2vitr\u00ee' (l.l. 18).\n14. With (the formula), 'Move in the sun's course' (l.l. 19) he should make him turn round from left to right.\n15. Grasping down over his right shoulder he should touch his uncovered navel with (the formula), '(Thou art the knot) of all breath' (l.l. 20).\n16. He then should give him in charge (to the gods) with the Antaka and the other formulas (l.l. 20 seqq.).\n17. (He touches) his right shoulder with (the formula), 'To Prag\u00e2pati (I give) thee (in charge)' (l.l. 23),\n18. His left shoulder with his left (hand) with (the formula), 'To the god Savitri (I give) thee (in charge)' (l.l. 24).\n19. Having directed him (to observe the duties of Brahmakarya, by the formula), 'A student art thou' (l.l. 25, 26), (the teacher) sitting down should from left to right tie round the student, who bends his right knee and clasps his hands, the girdle made of Mu\u00f1ga grass, and should cause him to repeat (the verse), 'Protecting us from evil word' (l.l. 27).\n13. utsrigy\u00e2po devasya ta iti dakshinottar\u00e2bhy\u00e2m hast\u00e2bhy\u00e2m a\u00f1galim grihn\u00eey\u00e2d \u00e2k\u00e2ryas. 14. S\u00fbryasyeti pradakshinam \u00e2vartayed. 15. dakshinam amsam anvavamrisy\u00e2nantarhit\u00e2m n\u00e2bhim \u00e2labhet pr\u00e2n\u00e2n\u00e2m ity. 16. athainam pariady\u00e2d antakaprabhritibhir. 17. dakshinam amsam Prag\u00e2pataye tveti. 18. savyena savyam dev\u00e2ya tveti. 19. brahmak\u00e2ry as\u00eeti sampreshyopavisya (samprekshy\u00b0, samprokshy\u00b0 the MSS.) dakshninag\u00e2nvaktam a\u00f1gal\u00eekritam pradakshinam mu\u00f1gamekhal\u00e2m \u00e2badhnan v\u00e2kayed iyam durukt\u00e2d ity.\n20. With (the words), 'Recite, sir!' (the student) should respectfully sit down near (the teacher).\n21. He then recites the S\u00e2vitr\u00ee (l.l. 29) to him, P\u00e2da by P\u00e2da, hemistich by hemistich, (and finally) the whole-thus he should teach him the S\u00e2vitr\u00ee,\n22. And the Mah\u00e2vy\u00e2hritis, one by one,\n23. And the word Om.\n24. He hands over to him the staff, which should be made of (the wood of) a tree\u2014\n25. With (the formula which the student has to recite), 'O glorious one, make me glorious' (l.l. 34).\n26. Let him put a piece of wood (on the fire) with (the verse), 'To Agni a piece of wood' (l.l. 32).\n27. Let him go to beg food;\n28. First of his mother,\n29. Then of other women friends.\n30. He should announce the alms (received) to his teacher.\n31. He should stand silently till sunset.\n32. Through a period of three nights he should avoid eating saline food and drinking milk.\n20. adh\u00eehi bho ity upas\u00eedet. 21. tasm\u00e2 anv\u00e2ha s\u00e2vitr\u00eem pakkho \u093drdharkasas sarv\u00e2m iti s\u00e2vitr\u00eem v\u00e2kayed. 22. mah\u00e2vy\u00e2hrit\u00ees kaikaikasa. 23. omk\u00e2ra\u00f1 ka. 24. prayakhaty asmai v\u00e2rksham dandam. 25. susravas susravasam meti. 26. samidham \u00e2dadhy\u00e2d Agnaye samidham iti. 27. bhaiksham karen. 28. m\u00e2taram agre. 29. \u093dth\u00e2ny\u00e2s suhrida. 30. \u00e2k\u00e2ry\u00e2ya bhaikshan nivedayet. 31. tishthed \u00e2stamay\u00e2t t\u00fbshn\u00eem. 32. trir\u00e2tram ksh\u00e2ralavane dugdham iti vargayet.\n399:1 4, 1 = Gobhila II, 10.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: II, 4","type":"page"}