{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29226.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29226.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29226.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1-4. One who has been bitten by a venomous animal, he should besprinkle with water, murmuring (the verse), 'Do not fear' (MB. IL 6, 18).\n4, 1. vishavat\u00e2 dashtam adbhir abhyukshan gapen m\u00e2 bhaish\u00eer iti.\n2. A Sn\u00e2taka should, when lying down to sleep, put his bamboo staff near (his bed) with (the formula), 'Strong one, protect' (l.l. 19). This will bring him luck.\n3. A place where he has a worm he should besprinkle with water, murmuring (the verses), 'Thy worm is killed' (MB. II, 7, 1-4).\n4. (If doing this) for his cattle, let him fetch in the afternoon an earth-clod taken out of a furrow, and let him in the morning strew the dust of it (on the place attacked by worms), murmuring (the same texts).\n5 5-23. (A guest) who is going to accept the Madhuparka should come forward murmuring, 'Here I tread on this' (MB. II, 8, 2).\n6. They announce three times (to the guest) each (of the following things which are brought to him): a bed (of grass), water for washing the feet, the Argha water, water for sipping, and the Madhuparka;\n7. And the cow.\n8. Having spread out the bed (of grass, so that the points of the grass are) turned to the north, he should sit down thereon with (the verse), 'The herbs which' (MB. II, 8, 3).\n9. With the feet (he treads on another bundle of\n2. sn\u00e2takas samvisan vainavam dandam upanidadhy\u00e2t tura gop\u00e2yeti svastyayanam. 3. hatas ta (hastata, hahsta, hasta, vitasta, the MSS.) iti krimimantam desam adbhir abhyuksha\u00f1 gapet. 4. pas\u00fbn\u00e2m ked apar\u00e2hne s\u00eet\u00e2loshtam \u00e2hritya tasya pr\u00e2tah p\u00e2msubhih pratishkira\u00f1 gapen. 5. madhuparkam pratigrah\u00eeshyann idam aham im\u00e2m iti pratitishtha\u00f1 gaped. 6. vishtarap\u00e2dy\u00e2rghy\u00e2kaman\u00eeyamadhupark\u00e2n\u00e2m ekaikam trir vedayante. 7. g\u00e2m ko. 8. . \u093dda\u00f1kam vishtaram \u00e2st\u00eerya y\u00e2 oshadh\u00eer ity adhy\u00e2s\u00eeta. 9. p\u00e2dayor dvit\u00eeyay\u00e2 dvau ked.\ngrass), if there are two, with the second (verse) (l.l. 4).\n10. Let him look at the water with (the formula), 'From which side I see the goddesses' (l.l. 5).\n11. Let him wash his left foot with (the formula), 'The left' (l.l. 6), the right with, 'The right' (I. 1. 7); both with the rest (8).\n12. Let him accept the Arghya water with (the formula), 'Thou art the queen of food' (l.l. 9).\n13. The water which he is to sip, (he accepts) with (the formula), 'Glory art thou' (l.l. 10).\n14. The Madhuparka with (the formula), 'The glory's glory art thou' (l.l. 11).\n15. Let him drink three times with (the formulas), 'The glory\u2019s,' 'The might\u2019s,' 'The fortune\u2019s' (l.l. 12).\n16. Having drunk more of it a fourth time silently he should give the remainder to a Br\u00e2hmana.\n17. Over the cow, when it has been announced to him, he should recite (the formula), 'Let loose the cow.'\n18. Instead of 'and of N.N.' (in that formula) he should put the name of the person who offers the Arghya reception.\n19. Thus if it is no sacrifice (by which the Arghya ceremony has been occasioned).\n20. 'Make it (ready),' if it is a sacrifice.\n10. apah pasyed yato dev\u00eer iti. 11. savyam p\u00e2dam avasi\u00f1ked savyam iti dakshinam dakshinam ity ubhau seshen\u00e2. 12. \u093dnnasya r\u00e2shtrir as\u00eety arghyam pratigrihn\u00eey\u00e2d. 13. yaso\u093ds\u00eety \u00e2kaman\u00eeyam. 14. yasaso yaso\u093ds\u00eeti madhuparkam. 15. trih pibed yasaso mahasa sriy\u00e2 iti. 16. t\u00fbshn\u00eem katurtham bh\u00fbyo\u093dbhip\u00e2ya br\u00e2hman\u00e2yokkhishtam dady\u00e2d. 17. gam vedit\u00e2m anumantrayeta mu\u00f1ka g\u00e2m ity. 18. amushya kety arhayitur n\u00e2ma br\u00fby\u00e2d. 19. evam ayag\u00f1e. 20. kuruteti yag\u00f1a.\n21. The six persons to whom the Arghya reception is due are, a teacher, an officiating priest, a Sn\u00e2taka, a king, the father-in-law, a friend.\n22. He should honour them (with the Arghya reception) once a year;\n23. But repeatedly in the case of a sacrifice and of a wedding. But repeatedly in the case of a sacrifice and of a wedding.\nEnd of the Fourth Patala.\nEnd of the Grihyakhanda.\n21. \u00e2k\u00e2rya ritvik sn\u00e2tako r\u00e2g\u00e2 viv\u00e2hyah priya iti shad arghy\u00e2h. 22. pratisamvatsar\u00e2n arhayet. 23. punar yag\u00f1aviv\u00e2hayos ka punar yag\u00f1aviv\u00e2hayos ka. katurthapatalah.\ngrihyakhandam sam\u00e2ptam.\n432:1-4 4, 1-4 = Gobhila IV, 9, 16 seqq.\n433:5-23 5-23 = IV, 10.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: IV, 4","type":"page"}