{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe30/sbe30036.htm","path":"hin/sbe30/sbe30036.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe30/sbe30036.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1892]\n1. 1 By (the description of) the Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ka offered at the Anvashtakya ceremony the Pindapitriyag\u00f1a has been declared;\n2. This is a Sr\u00e2ddha offered on the day of the new moon.\n3. 3 Another (Sr\u00e2ddha) is the Anv\u00e2h\u00e2rya.\n4. (It is performed) monthly.\n5. 5 The Havis is prepared (by one who has set up the sacred Srauta fires) in the Dakshin\u00e2gni (i.e. in that of the three fires which is situated towards the south).\n6. And from the same (fire the fire is taken which)\nis carried forward (in order to be used at the ceremonies).\n7. In the domestic fire (the Havis is prepared) by one who has not set up the (Srauta) fires.\n8. One pit (only is made);\n9. 9 To the south of it the fire has its place.\n10. 10 Here the laying down of the fire-brand is omitted,\n11. 11 And (the spreading out of) the layer (of grass),\n12. 12 And the anointing (of the bunches of Darbha grass), and the anointing (of the Fathers),\n13. 13 And the (offering of) perfume,\n14. 14 And the ceremony of deprecation.\n15. 15 (The ceremony performed with) the vessel of water forms the conclusion (of the Pindapitriyag\u00f1a).\n16. 16 He should, however, put down one garment (for the Fathers in common).\n17. 17 On the eighth day after the full moon of M\u00e2gha a Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ka (is prepared).\n18. He should sacrifice of that (Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ka).\n19. 'To the Ashtak\u00e2 Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\u2014with (these words) he sacrifices.\n20. 20 The rest (should be performed) according to the Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ka rite.\n21. 21 Vegetables (are taken instead of meat) as ingredient to the Anv\u00e2h\u00e2rya(-rice).\n22. At animal sacrifices offered to the Fathers let\u2014\nhim sacrifice the omentum with (the verse), 'Carry the omentum, O G\u00e2tavedas, to the Fathers' (MB. II, 3, 16);\n23. At (such sacrifices) offered to the gods, with (the verse), 'G\u00e2tavedas, go to the gods with the omentum' (ibid. 17).\n24. If no (god to whom the sacrifice should be offered, and no Mantra with which the oblation should be made) is known, he sacrifices, assigning (his offering to the personified rite which he is performing), thus as (for instance), 'To the Ashtak\u00e2 Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n25. 25 The rest (should be performed) according to the Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ka rite.\n26. 26 If a debt turns up (which he cannot pay), he should sacrifice with the middle leaf of Golakas, with (the verse), 'The debt which' (MB. II, 3, 18).\n27. Now (follows) the putting into motion of the plough.\n28. Under an auspicious Nakshatra he should cook a mess of sacrificial food and should sacrifice to the following deities, namely, to Indra, to the Maruts, to Parganya, to Asani, to Bhaga.\n29. 29 And he should offer (\u00c2gya) to S\u00eet\u00e2, \u00c2s\u00e2, Arad\u00e2, Anagh\u00e2.\n30. The same deities (receive offerings) at the\nfurrow-sacrifice, at the thrashing-floor-sacrifice, at the sowing, at the reaping of the crop, and at the putting of the crop into the barn.\n31. And at mole hills he should sacrifice to the king of moles.\n32. 32 To Indr\u00e2n\u00ee a Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ka (is prepared).\n33. Of that he should make an offering with (the verse), 'The Ek\u00e2shtak\u00e2, performing austerities' (MB. II, 3, 19).\n34. The rest (should be performed) according to the Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ka ritual. The rest according to the Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ka ritual.\n111:1 4, 1. Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya III, 5, 35. Comp. M.M., 'India, what can it teach us?' p. 240. The word Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ka is used here, as is observed in the commentary, in order to exclude the mess of meat (chap. 2, 14) from the rites of the Pindapitriyag\u00f1a.\n111:3 Anv\u00e2h\u00e2rya literally means, what is offered (or given) after something else, supplementary. In the commentary on Gobhila, p. 666, a verse is quoted:\n'The second (Sr\u00e2ddha) which is performed on the day of the new moon, that is called anv\u00e2h\u00e2rya.' First comes the Pindapitriyag\u00f1a, and then follows the Anv\u00e2h\u00e2rya Sr\u00e2ddha; the last is identical with the P\u00e2rvana Sr\u00e2ddha, which is described as the chief form of Sr\u00e2ddha ceremonies, for instance in S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya IV, 1. Comp. Manu III, 122. 123, and Kull\u00fbka's note; M.M., 'India, what can it teach us?' p. 200.\n111:5 According to the commentary this and the following S\u00fbtras refer only to the Pindapitriyag\u00f1a, not to the Anv\u00e2h\u00e2rya Sr\u00e2ddha. Comp. Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya III, 5, 36-39.\n112:9 See chap. 2, 18.\n112:10 See chap. 3, 3.\n112:11 Chap. 2, 23.\n112:12 Chap. 2, 30; 3, 13.\n112:13 Chap. 3, 16.\n112:14 Chap. 3, 17 seq.\n112:15 Chap. 3, 26.\n112:16 Comp. chap. 3, 24. 25.\n112:17 17-21. Description of the third Ashtak\u00e2 festival.\n112:20 Comp. above, III, 7, 20 note.\n112:21 Comp. IV, I, 12.\n113:25 See III, 7, 20 note.\n113:26 I am not sure about the translation of the words golak\u00e2n\u00e2m madhyamaparnena. The ordinary meaning of golaka is 'ball,' see, for instance, S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana-Grihya IV, 19, 4. The commentary says, golak\u00e2n\u00e2m pal\u00e2s\u00e2nam madhyamaparnena madhyamakkhadena.\n113:29 The name of the third of those rural deities is spelt differently; Dr. Knauer gives the readings, Arad\u00e2m, Arath\u00e2m, Aragam, Arar\u00e2m, Aram.\n114:32 32-34. Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya III, 5, 40. I understand that this sacrifice stands in connection with the rural festivals which are treated of in the preceding S\u00fbtras. In the commentary, from the mantra the conclusion is drawn that the ceremony in question belongs to the day of the Ek\u00e2shtak\u00e2. But the Ek\u00e2shtak\u00e2 is the Ashtak\u00e2 of the dark fortnight of M\u00e2gha (see S.B.E. XXIX, 102), and the description of the rites belonging to that day has already been given above, S\u00fbtras 17-21. It very frequently occurs in the Grihya ritual that Mantras are used at sacrifices standing in no connection with those for which they have originally been composed.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30): Grihya S\u00fbtra of Gobhila: IV, 4","type":"page"}