{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe30/sbe30031.htm","path":"hin/sbe30/sbe30031.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe30/sbe30031.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1892]\n1. 1 On the \u00c2grah\u00e2yan\u00ee day (or the full-moon day of the month M\u00e2rgas\u00eersha) Bali-offerings (are made).\n2. 2 They have been explained by the Sr\u00e2vana sacrifice.\n3. 3 He does not murmur (here) the Mantra, 'Adoration to the Earth\u2019s.'\n4. In the morning, after he has sacrificed the (regular) morning oblation, he should have the following (plants and branches of trees) fetched, viz. Darbha grass, a Sami (branch), V\u00eerina grass, a (Badar\u00ee branch) with fruits, Ap\u00e2m\u00e2rga, and Sir\u00eesha. He then should silently throw (a portion) of flour of fried barley into the fire, should cause the Br\u00e2hmanas to pronounce auspicious wishes, and should circumambulate the house, turning his right side towards it, starting from the room for the (sacred) fire, striking the smoke (of the sacred fire) with those objects (i.e. with the plants and branches mentioned above).\n5. He should throw away those objects, after he has made use of them.\n6. 6 On solid stones he places a water-barrel with the two (S\u00e2mans belonging to the verse), 'V\u00e2stoshpati' (S\u00e2ma-veda I, 275) and with (that) Rik (itself).\n7. Let him pour two pots of water into that barrel with this verse, 'Some assemble' (S\u00e2ma-veda-\u00c2ranyaka, vol. ii, p. 292, ed. Bibl. Indica).\n8. 8 In the evening boiled rice-grains with milk (are prepared).\n9. Of that (milk-rice) he should make an oblation with (the Mantra), 'She shone forth as the first' (MB. II, 2, 1).\n10. 10 The rest (should be performed) according to the Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ka rite.\n11. To the west of the fire he touches the Barhis with his two hands turned downwards, and murmurs the Vy\u00e2hritis (i.e. the solemn utterances), 'In the Kshatra I establish myself' (ibid. 2. 3).\n12. To the west of the fire he should have a layer spread out,\n13. Of northward-pointed grass,\n14. Inclined towards the north.\n15. After they have spread out on that (grass) new rugs, the householder sits down (thereon) on the southern side.\n16. Then without an interval the others according to their age,\n17. And without an interval their wives, each with her children.\n18. When they are seated, the householder touches the layer (of grass) with his two hands turned downwards, and murmurs the verse, 'Be soft to us, O Earth' (ibid. 4).\n19. When he has finished that (verse), they lie down on their right sides.\n20. 20 In the same way (they lie down on their right sides) three times, turning themselves towards themselves (i.e. turning round forwards, not backwards, and thus returning to their former position?).\n21. They repeat the auspicious hymns as far as they know them;\n22. 22 The complex of S\u00e2mans called Arishta, according to some (teachers).\n23. Having touched water, they may do whatever they like.\n94:1 9, 1 seq. The \u00c2grah\u00e2yan\u00ee ceremony by which the rites devoted to the Serpents are concluded. Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya III, 3, 16 seq.\n94:2 See above, chap. 7.\n94:3 Comp. chap. 7, 17: To the west of that fire he touches the p. 95 earth with his two hands turned downwards, and murmurs the Mantra, 'Adoration to the Earth\u2019s.'\n95:6 He sings the two K\u00e2vasha S\u00e2mans of which the verse S\u00e2ma-veda I, 275 is considered as the Yoni, and then repeats that verse itself.\n95:8 This S\u00fbtra is identical with chap. 7, 18.\n95:10 Comp. chap. 7, 20 note.\n96:20 The explanation which the commentary gives of this difficult Sutra can hardly be accepted: trir \u00e2vritya trihkritvo\u093dbhyasya . . . abhy\u00e2tmam \u00e2tmano grihapater \u00e2bhimukhyena, \u00e2tmana \u00e2rabhyety arthah. katham n\u00e2ma? yenaiva kramenopavisht\u00e2h tenaiva kramena samvesanam trir \u00e2vartayeyuh.\n96:22 The commentary gives a second name for this S\u00e2man p. 97 litany, arishtabha\u1e45ga. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana says: abodhy agnir (Sv. I, 73) mahi tr\u00een\u00e2m (I, 192) iti dve tv\u00e2vata (I, 193) ity\u00e2dikam sarvalokaprasiddham prayugya.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30): Grihya S\u00fbtra of Gobhila: III, 9","type":"page"}