{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29223.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29223.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29223.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1-18. When undertaking ceremonies for the obtainment of special wishes, let him omit six meals or three.\n2. At such ceremonies as are repeated daily, (let him do so only) in the beginning;\n3. After (the ceremony), if it is performed on account of a prodigy.\n4. Thus also at the performances of the sacrificial day (i.e. of the first day of the fortnight).\n5. One who keeps the vow (of fasting) through one fortnight, (may avail himself of the following indulgence):\n6. If he is not able (to subsist entirely without food, let him drink) rice-water once a day.\n7. Let him murmur the Prapada formula (MB. II, 4, 5), sitting in the forest on eastward-pointed grass-blades.\n8. Thus one who is desirous of holy lustre.\n9. One who is desirous of cattle, as stated above (III, I, 5?).\n10. One who desires that his stock of cattle\nIV, 1, 1. k\u00e2myeshu shad bhakt\u00e2ni tr\u00eeni v\u00e2 n\u00e2sn\u00eey\u00e2n. 2. nityaprayukt\u00e2n\u00e2m \u00e2dita. 3. uparisht\u00e2t s\u00e2nnip\u00e2tika. 4. evam yagan\u00eeyaprayogeshv. 5. ardham\u00e2savraty. 6. asaktau peyam (read, pey\u00e2m) ekam k\u00e2lam. 7. aranve prapadam gaped \u00e2s\u00eenah pr\u00e2gagreshv. 8. evam brahmavarkasak\u00e2mo. 9. yathoktam pasuk\u00e2mah. 10. sahasrab\u00e2hur iti pasusvastyayanak\u00e2mo vr\u00eehiyavau guhuy\u00e2d.\nmay increase, should sacrifice rice and barley, with (the verse), 'He who has a thousand arms' (MB. II, 4, 7).\n11. To one with whom he wishes to become associated, he should give fruits of a big tree, over which he has murmured the Kautomata verse (MB. II, 4, 8).\n12. Having kept the vow (of fasting) through one fortnight, he should in the full-moon night plunge up to his navel into a pool which does not dry up, and should sacrifice with his mouth fried grain into the water, with the five (verses), 'Like a tree' (MB. II, 4, 9-13).\n13. This ceremony procures (property on) the earth.\n14. One who is desirous of the enjoyment (of riches), should worship the sun with the first (of those five verses), while one who is rich in wealth should look at him.\n15. One who desires that his stock of horses and elephants may increase, (should sacrifice) fried grain with the second (of those verses), while the sun has a halo.\n16. One who desires that his flocks may increase, (should sacrifice) sesamum seeds with the third (verse), while the moon has a halo.\n11. yenekhet sahak\u00e2ram kautomaten\u00e2sya mah\u00e2vrikshaphal\u00e2ni parigapya dady\u00e2d. 12. ardham\u00e2savrat\u00ee paurnam\u00e2sy\u00e2m r\u00e2trau n\u00e2bhim\u00e2tram prag\u00e2hy\u00e2vid\u00e2sini hrade\u093dkshatatandul\u00e2n \u00e2syena guhuy\u00e2d udake vriksha iveti pa\u00f1kabhih. 13. p\u00e2rthivam karma. 14. prathamay\u00e2dityam upatishthed bhogak\u00e2mo\u093drthapatau preksham\u00e2ne. 15. dvit\u00eeyay\u00e2kshatatandul\u00e2n \u00e2ditye parivishyam\u00e2ne brihatpattrasvastyayanak\u00e2mas. 16. trit\u00eeyay\u00e2 kandramasi tilatandul\u00e2n kshudrapasusvastyayanak\u00e2mas.\n17. Having worshipped the sun with the fourth (verse), let him try to gain great wealth.\n18. Having worshipped the sun with the fifth, let him return home.\n19 19-27. In order to avert involuntary death let him murmur every day (the formula), 'Bh\u00fbh!' (MB. II, 4, 14.)\n20. On the sacrificial day (i.e. the first day of the fortnight) let him make oblations with the six verses, From the head' (MB. II, 5, 1 seqq.), with the V\u00e2madevya verses, with the Mah\u00e2vy\u00e2hritis, and with the verse sacred to Prag\u00e2pati (l.l. 8).\n21. Thus he will drive away misfortune.\n22. On an unsafe road let him murmur the verse, 'Go away' (Rig-veda X, 164, 1).\n23. One who is desirous of glory should worship the sun in the forenoon, at noon, and in the afternoon, with (the formula), 'I am glory' (MB. II, 5, 9).\n24. Let him change (the word), 'Of the forenoon,' according (to the different times of the day).\n25. Worshipping (the sun) at twilight with the formula, 'O sun! the ship' (MB. II, 5, 14), procures happiness.\n26. At the morning twilight (he says), 'When thou risest' (l.l. 15).\n17. katurthy\u00e2dityam upasth\u00e2ya gurum artham abhyuttishthet. 18. pa\u00f1kamy\u00e2dityam upasth\u00e2ya grih\u00e2n ey\u00e2d. 19. anak\u00e2mam\u00e2ram nityam gaped bh\u00fbr iti. 20. yagan\u00eeye guhuy\u00e2n m\u00fbrdhno\u093ddhi ma iti shadbhir v\u00e2madevyargbhir mah\u00e2vy\u00e2hritibhih pr\u00e2g\u00e2patyay\u00e2 k\u00e2. 21. \u093dlakshm\u00eenirnodo. 22. \u093dksheme pathy apeh\u00eeti gaped. 23. yaso \u093dham ity \u00e2dityam upatishthed yasask\u00e2mah p\u00fbrv\u00e2hnamadhyandin\u00e2par\u00e2hneshu. 24. pr\u00e2tarahnasyeti yath\u00e2rtham filled. 25. \u00e2ditya n\u00e2vam iti sandhyopasth\u00e2nam svastyayanam. 26. udyantam tveti p\u00fbrv\u00e2m.\n27. At the evening twilight, 'When thou goest to rest' (l.l. 16).\n27. pratitishthantam tveti paskim\u00e2m.\n425:1-18 IV, 1, 1-18 = Gobhila IV, 5, I, 9, 10, 11, 13, 12, 27, 24, 25, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 27, 28, 22, 23, 30-34 (9 deest).\n427:19-27 19-27 = IV, 6, 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 3, 10-12 (22 deest).","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: IV, 1","type":"page"}