{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29219.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29219.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29219.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1-7. On the full-moon day of (the month) Sr\u00e2vana, let him carry forward fire from his house, and let him besmear (the place around it) to the extent of more than one prakrama (i.e. step) towards the different directions (of the horizon).\n2. Having once taken a quantity of flour, and having put it into (the spoon called) Darvi, he should pour out water on the besmeared place to the east (of the fire), and should offer a Bali with (the formula), (O king of serpents) dwelling towards the east' (MB. II, 1, 1),\n3. He should pour out the rest of the water.\n4. Having touched water, he should do the same\n2, 1. sr\u00e2vany\u00e2m paurnam\u00e2sy\u00e2m grih\u00e2d agnim atipran\u00eeya pratidisam upalimped adhike prakrame. 2. sakridgrih\u00eet\u00e2n sakt\u00fbn darvy\u00e2m kritv\u00e2 p\u00fbrvopalipte nin\u00eey\u00e2po yah pr\u00e2ky\u00e2m iti balim nirvapen. 3. ninayed ap\u00e2m sesham. 4. apa upasprisyaivam pratidisam yath\u00e2li\u1e45gam.\ntowards the other directions (of the horizon) according as they are mentioned in the Mantras.\n5. Between (the besmeared surface) towards the south and that towards the east and the fire (there should be) a passage.\n6. After he has thrown the remnants (of flour) out of the basket into the fire, he should go from (the fire) which has been carried forward, to that (fire) which has not (been carried forward), and should turn his hands downwards (so as to touch the earth with them) and should murmur (the Mantra), 'Adoration to the earth's' (l.l. 3).\n7. Thence rising he should place (to the north of the fire) a bunch of Darbha-grass with (the Mantra), 'The king Soma' (l.l.4), and should fix his thoughts on the serpents that are in that bunch.\n8 8-13. Taking a portion of fried grain, he should go out of the village in a northern or eastern direction, and should sacrifice it with his joined hands with the four (verses), 'Hearken, R\u00e2k\u00e2!' (MB. II, 6, 2 seqq.).\n9. Walking eastwards he should murmur, 'Be a giver of wealth' (l.l. 6).\n10. Thus three times to the different quarters and intermediate quarters (of the horizon).\n5. dakshinapaskime antaren\u00e2gni\u00f1 ka samkarah. 6. s\u00fbrpena sisht\u00e2n agn\u00e2v opy\u00e2tipran\u00eet\u00e2d anatipran\u00eetasy\u00e2rdham gatv\u00e2 nya\u00f1kau p\u00e2n\u00ee kritv\u00e2 namah Prithivy\u00e2 iti gapet. 7. tata utth\u00e2ya Somo r\u00e2geti darbhastambam upasth\u00e2ya (correct, upasth\u00e2pya) stambasth\u00e2n sarp\u00e2n manas\u00e2 dhy\u00e2yann. 8. akshat\u00e2n \u00e2d\u00e2ya pr\u00e2\u1e45 voda\u1e45 v\u00e2 gr\u00e2m\u00e2n nishkramya guhuy\u00e2d a\u00f1galin\u00e2 haye R\u00e2ka iti katasribhih. 9. pr\u00e2\u1e45 utkramya gaped vasuvana edh\u00eeti. 10. tris trih pratidisam av\u00e2ntaradeseshu ko.\n11. Looking upwards (he should offer a Bali) to the hosts of divine beings,\n12. (Looking) towards the side, to the hosts of other beings;\n13. Looking downwards, he should go back (to the fire) without looking back, and should eat the fried grain.\n14. On the following day he should prepare flour of fried grain, should put it into a new vessel, and after sunset he should offer Balis.\n15. (The same is repeated every day) till the \u00c2grah\u00e2yan\u00ee day.\n16 16-33. On the full-moon day of Praushthapada (or) under (the Nakshatra) Hasta they should begin the Veda-study;\n17. On the full-moon day of Sr\u00e2vana, according to some (teachers).\n18. Having sacrificed as at the Upanayana\u2014\n19. He should cause (the students) to recite the S\u00e2vitr\u00ee,\n20. (The verse), 'Soma, the king' (S\u00e2ma-veda I, 91), and the first verses of the Parvans.\n21. Let them eat grain and curds with two appropriate (verses).\n22. On the following day in the morning let them repeat (the Veda) to their pupils.\n11. \u093drdhvam prekshan devayaganebhyas (correct, devaganebhyas). 12. tirya\u1e45\u1e45 itaraganebhyo. 13. \u093dv\u00e2\u1e45 prekshan pratyety\u00e2navekshann akshat\u00e2n pr\u00e2sn\u00eey\u00e2k. 14. khvobh\u00fbte\u093dkshatasakt\u00fbn kritv\u00e2 nave p\u00e2tre nidh\u00e2y\u00e2stam ite bal\u00een hared. 15. \u00e2grah\u00e2yany\u00e2h. 16. praushthapad\u00eem hasten\u00e2dhy\u00e2y\u00e2n up\u00e2kuryuh. 17. sr\u00e2van\u00eem ity eke. 18. hutvopanayanavat. 19. s\u00e2vitr\u00eem anuv\u00e2kayet. 20. Somam r\u00e2g\u00e2nam parv\u00e2d\u00eems ka. 21. dh\u00e2n\u00e2 dadhi ka pr\u00e2sn\u00eeyur abhir\u00fbp\u00e2bhy\u00e2m. 22. svobh\u00fbte pr\u00e2tar adh\u00eey\u00eera\u00f1 khishyebhyo.\n23. (After each section of the text) they should repeat (as a sort of index?) the beginnings of the Rikas and the Prast\u00e2vas (of the S\u00e2mans).\n24. Then the Rahasya texts are chanted,\n25. Except when lightning is seen or thunder heard.\n26. When they have studied four months and a half, they finish on the full-moon day of Pausha.\n27. From that time studying is forbidden when clouds appear,\n28. And when lightning is seen, or thunder heard, or when it is drizzling.\n29. When these three things happen together, (studying is forbidden) till the twilight has thrice passed.\n30. On an Ashtak\u00e2, on a new-moon day, on the (three) festivals which come once in four months, and at (the beginning of) the northern course of the sun, (studying is forbidden) for one night with one day before and one day after it.\n31. And if a fellow-pupil has died.\n32. On the falling of a meteor, or after an earthquake, or an eclipse of the sun or of the moon, on these occasions one should know (that studying is forbidden) until the same time next day.\n33. The Kathas and Kauthumas, however, state\n23. \u093dn.uv\u00e2ky\u00e2h kuryur rig\u00e2dibhih prast\u00e2vais k\u00e2. 24. \u093dnug\u00e2nam rahasy\u00e2n\u00e2m. 25. vidyutstanayitnuvargam. 26. ardhapa\u00f1kam\u00e2n m\u00e2s\u00e2n adh\u00eetya paush\u00eem utsargas. 27. tata \u00fbrdhvam mantr\u00e2n\u00e2dhy\u00e2yo (correct, abhr\u00e2n\u00e2dhy\u00e2yo). 28. vidyutstanayitnuvrishtiteshu (correct, \u00b0prushiteshu or \u00b0prishiteshu; see Ludwig's note on Rig-veda VIII, I, 12) ka. 29. trisannip\u00e2te trisandhyam. 30. ashtak\u00e2m am\u00e2v\u00e2sy\u00e2m k\u00e2turm\u00e2s\u00eer udagayane ka pakshin\u00eem r\u00e2tr\u00eem. 31. sabrahmak\u00e2rini ka preta. 32. ulk\u00e2p\u00e2te bh\u00fbmikale gyotishos kopasarga eteshv \u00e2k\u00e2likam vidy\u00e2t. 33. k\u00e2rshvan tu Kathakauthum\u00e2h.\nthat (when rain has fallen, studying is forbidden) as long as the water stands in the ditches.\n411:1-7 2, 1-7. 14. 15 = III, 7.\n412:8-13 8-13 = IV, 8, 1 seqq. (to deest).\n413:16-33 16-33 = III, 3 (22, 25, 29, 33 desunt).","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: III, 2","type":"page"}