{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29225.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29225.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29225.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1-5. Keeping the observance (of fasting) through one fortnight, let him sacrifice in a full-moon night one hundred pegs with the Ek\u00e2kshary\u00e2 verse (MB. II, 6, 9), if he is desirous of having (a large) family.\n2. (Those pegs should be) of Kh\u00e2dira wood, if he is desirous of long life.\n3. Now another (ceremony performed with the same verse). He should go out of the village in an eastern or northern direction, should brush up an elevated surface, or (should raise it) on a mountain with the dung of beasts of the forest, should set it on\n3, 1. ardham\u00e2savrat\u00ee paurnam\u00e2sy\u00e2m r\u00e2trau sa\u1e45kusatam guhuy\u00e2d ek\u00e2ksharyay\u00e2 s\u00e2nvayak\u00e2mah. 2. kh\u00e2dir\u00e2n \u00e2yushk\u00e2mo. 3. \u093dth\u00e2param. pr\u00e2\u1e45 voda\u1e45 v\u00e2 gr\u00e2m\u00e2n nishkramya sthandilam sam\u00fbhya parvate v\u00e2ranyair gomayai sth\u00e2payitv\u00e2 (read, gomayais t\u00e2payitv\u00e2?) \u093d\u1e45g\u00e2r\u00e2n apohy\u00e2syena guhuy\u00e2d.\nfire, should sweep the coals away (from that surface), and should make an oblation (of butter) with his mouth.\n4. If (the butter) catches fire, twelve villages (will be his).\n5. If smoke rises, at least three.\n6. Let him sacrifice in the evening and in the morning the fallings-off of rice-grains. Thus his means of livelihood will not be exhausted.\n7 7-9. Of articles of trade let him make an oblation with (the formula), 'Here (this Visvakarman),' (MB. II, 6, 10.)\n8. On the sacrificial day (i.e. on the first day of the fortnight) let him sacrifice a full oblation (with the verse MB. II, 6, II, 'A full oblation I sacrifice,' &c.).\n9. One who is desirous of companions (should sacrifice) with (the formula), 'Indr\u00e2mavad\u00e2t' (?), (MB. II, 6, 12.)\n10 10-16. He should fast through a period of eight nights, and then should kindle a fire to the east or to the north of the village, at a place where four roads meet. The fuel should be Udumbara wood, and the Sruva and the cup (for water should be of the same wood). Let him sacrifice (\u00c2gya) with (the formulas), 'Food indeed,' and 'Bliss indeed' (MB. II, 6, 13, 14).\n11. A third (oblation) in the village with (the formula), 'The food\u2019s' (l.l. 15).\n4. dv\u00e2dasa gr\u00e2m\u00e2 gvalite. 5. tryavar\u00e2 dh\u00fbme. 6. kamb\u00fbk\u00e2n s\u00e2yampr\u00e2tar guhuy\u00e2n n\u00e2sya vrittih ksh\u00eeyata. 7. idam aham imam iti panyahomam guhuy\u00e2t. 8. p\u00fbrnahomam yagan\u00eeye guhuy\u00e2d. 9. Indr\u00e2mavad\u00e2d iti sah\u00e2yak\u00e2mo. 10. \u093dshtar\u00e2troposhito\u093dparam pr\u00e2\u1e45 voda\u1e45 v\u00e2 gr\u00e2m\u00e2k katushpathe samidhy\u00e2gnim audumbara idhma sy\u00e2t sruvakamasau ka guhuy\u00e2d annam v\u00e2 iti sr\u00eer v\u00e2 iti. 11. gr\u00e2me trit\u00eey\u00e2m annasyety.\n12. Then he will become a ruler.\n13. When (his cows) are sick, let him sacrifice milk-rice in the cow-stable.\n14. On a dangerous road let him make knots in the skirts of the garments (of those who travel together). This will bring a prosperous journey to (himself) and his companions.\n15. With the two (formulas), 'To Hunger Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!' (MB. II, 6, 16, 17), let him sacrifice a thousand oblations, if he desires to obtain a thousand cart-loads (of gold).\n16. One who is desirous of cattle (should sacrifice one thousand oblations) of the excrements of a male and a female calf. Of a male and a female sheep, if he is desirous of flocks.\n17 17. Let him make oblations of fresh cowdung in the evening and in the morning; then his means of livelihood will not be exhausted.\n12. \u00e2dhipatyam pr\u00e2pnoty. 13. upat\u00e2pin\u00eeshu goshthe p\u00e2yasam guhuy\u00e2d. 14. aksheme pathi vastradas\u00e2n\u00e2m granth\u00een kury\u00e2t sah\u00e2yin\u00e2m (sah\u00e2y\u00e2n\u00e2m?) ka svastyayan\u00e2ni. 15. kshudhe sv\u00e2hety et\u00e2bhy\u00e2m \u00e2hutisahasram guhuy\u00e2d \u00e2kitasahasrak\u00e2mo. 16. vatsamithunayoh pur\u00eeshena pasuk\u00e2mo\u093dvimithunayoh kshudrapasuk\u00e2mo. 17. haritagomayena s\u00e2yampr\u00e2tar guhuy\u00e2n n\u00e2sya vrittih ksh\u00eeyate.\n430:1-5 3, 1-5, Gobhila IV, 8, 10-16. 6 = IV, 9, 15.\n431:7-9 7-9 = IV, 8, 19 seqq.\n431:10-16 10-16 = IV, 9, 1 seqq.\n432:17 17 = IV, 8, 18.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: IV, 3","type":"page"}