{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe30/sbe30011.htm","path":"hin/sbe30/sbe30011.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe30/sbe30011.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1892]\n1. To the east (is placed) the \u00c2gya, to the west the mess of cooked food.\n2. 2 Having sprinkled (water) round (the fire) and poured \u00c2gya on the mess of cooked food, he begins to sacrifice simply with the pot-ladle, picking out portions of the sacrificial food (without 'underspreading' and pouring \u00c2gya over the Havis).\n3. 3 If he intends, however, to sacrifice so as to 'underspread' (the Havis with \u00c2gya) and to pour (\u00c2gya) over it, let him sacrifice first the two \u00c2gya portions (in the following way):\n4. He should take four portions of \u00c2gya\u2014five portions (are taken) by the Bhrigus\u2014and should sacrifice from west to east, on the northern side with (the formula), 'To Agni Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!' on the southern side with (the words), 'To Soma Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n5. He then cuts off (two or three Avad\u00e2nas) from the Havis, having 'spread under' (\u00c2gya).\n6. 6 (Two Avad\u00e2nas) from the middle and from the east side, if he (belongs to the families who) make\nfour Avad\u00e2nas. (Three Avad\u00e2nas) from the middle, from the east and from the west side, if (he belongs to those who) make five Avad\u00e2nas.\n7. 7 He sprinkles (\u00c2gya) on the cut-off portions.\n8. He anoints the places from which he has cut them off (with \u00c2gya) in order that the strength (of the Havis) may not be lost.\n9. He should sacrifice over the middle of the fire with (the words), 'To Agni Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\u2014\n10. Once or thrice, in that same way.\n11. 11 Now for the Svishtakrit (oblation), after having 'spread under' (\u00c2gya), he cuts off once a very big (Avad\u00e2na) from the eastern part of the northern part (of the Havis), Twice he should sprinkle (\u00c2gya) on it.\n12. But if he (belongs to the families who) make five Avad\u00e2nas, he should 'spread under' twice, and cut off (the Avad\u00e2na), and sprinkle (\u00c2gya) on it twice.\n13. 13 He does not anoint the place from which he has cut off, in order that the strength (of the Havis) may be lost.\n14. 14 With the words, 'To Agni Svishtakrit\n[paragraph continues] Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!' he should sacrifice it over the eastern part of the northern part (of the fire).\n15. 15 He should sacrifice oblations of \u00c2gya on (the chief oblations of cooked sacrificial food), with the Mah\u00e2vy\u00e2hritis.\n16. 16 The insertion (stands) before the Svishtakrit (oblation).\n17. If different sacrifices are performed together, there is only one sweeping (of the ground) round (the fire) (chap. 3, 1), one (putting of) fuel (on the fire) (chap. 7, 19), one Barhis, one sprinkling (of water) round (the fire) (chap. 8, 2), one \u00c2gya, and one offering of the two \u00c2gyabh\u00e2gas (chap. 8, 3).\n18. Having cut off (the Avad\u00e2nas) for all (the single sacrifices), he sacrifices the Svishtakrit oblation only once.\n19. 19 After he has sacrificed, he should throw that pot-ladle (which he has used in the preceding ceremonies) into the fire.\n20. Or having washed it, he should take with it (the rest of the sacrificial food), and should eat that.\n21. The Sruva he should not throw into the fire, say some (teachers).\n22. 22 By one who has not set up the sacred fires, the mess of cooked food should be offered to Agni at the festivals both of the full and of the new moon.\n23. To Agni, or to Agni and Soma, by one who has set them up, at the full-moon (sacrifice);\n24. To Indra, or to Indra and Agni, or to Mahendra, at the new-moon (sacrifice).\n25. Or also one who has set up the sacred fires, should offer it to Agni at the festivals both of the full and of the new moon.\n26. 26 Having put a piece of wood (on the fire), and having afterwards sprinkled (water) round (the fire), he performs the Yag\u00f1av\u00e2stu ceremony (in the following way):\n27. 27 From that same Barhis he should take a handful of Kura grass, and should dip it thrice into the \u00c2gya or into the Havis, the points, the middle, and the roots, with (the words), 'May the birds come, licking what has been anointed.'\n28. He then should besprinkle that (handful of grass) with water, and should throw it into the fire with (the verse), 'Thou who art the lord of cattle, Rudra, who walkest with the lines (of cattle), the manly one: do no harm to our cattle; let this be offered to thee! Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n29. This (ceremony) they call Yag\u00f1av\u00e2stu.\n34:2 8, 2. On the sprinkling of water round the fire, comp. above, chap. 3, 1 seq. On the technical meaning of upagh\u00e2tam, see Bloomfield's note on Grihya-samgraha Parisishta I, 111 (Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenl\u00e4ndischen Gesellschaft, XXXV, 568).\n34:3 3 seq. Comp. Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya II, 1, 17.\n34:6 Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya II, I, 19 seq. The Upastarana (S\u00fbtra 5) and p. 35 the Abhigh\u00e2rana (S\u00fbtra 7) are reckoned as two Avad\u00e2nas, so that they form together with the two or three portions cut off from the Havis, four or five Avad\u00e2nas respectively. On the difference of the families regarding the number of Avad\u00e2nas, comp. Weber, Indische Studien, X, 95.\n35:7 7 seqq. Comp. Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya II, I, 21-24.\n35:11 Comp. the corresponding regulations of the Srauta ritual at Hillebrandt, Neu- and Vollmondsopfer, 117-119.\n35:13 The same rule re-occurs in the Srauta ritual; Hillebrandt, l.l. 117, note 8.\n35:14 The expression used here uttar\u00e2rdhap\u00fbrv\u00e2rdhe is also found in most of the corresponding passages of the Srauta ritual, p. 36 given by Hillebrandt, l.l. 119, note 3. The Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya has pr\u00e2gud\u00eeky\u00e2m.\n36:15 If the chief oblations consist in \u00c2gya, they are both preceded and followed by the Mah\u00e2vy\u00e2hriti oblations. See below, chap. 9, S\u00fbtra 27.\n36:16 On the \u00e2v\u00e2pa (i.e. the special characteristic offerings of each sacrifice) see S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya I, 9, 12, and the note there (vol. xxix, p. 28).\n36:19 According to the commentary, etad would belong to sauvishtakritam (S\u00fbtra 18): 'After he has sacrificed that, he should throw the pot-ladle into the fire.' The comparison of Baudh\u00e2yana 1, 17, 23, atraitan mekshanam \u00e2havan\u00eeve\u093dnupraharati (Hillebrandt, p. 119, note 3), shows that the commentary is wrong, and that etad belongs to mekshanam.\n37:22 22-25. Comp. Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya II, 2, 1-4.\n37:26 26-29. Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya II, 1, 26 seq.; Grihya-samgraha II, 1 seq.\n37:27 The expression tata eva barhishah has occurred already at chap. 7, 21. The Mantra re-occurs in V\u00e2g. Samhit\u00e2 II. 16 e, &c.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30): Grihya S\u00fbtra of Gobhila: I, 8","type":"page"}