{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe30/sbe30044.htm","path":"hin/sbe30/sbe30044.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe30/sbe30044.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1892]\n1. We shall explain the Upanayana (i.e. the initiation of the student).\n2. 2 Let him initiate a Br\u00e2hmana at the age of seven years,\n3. A R\u00e2ganya, of eleven, a Vaisya, of twelve.\n4. 4 A Br\u00e2hmana in the spring, a R\u00e2ganya in the summer, a Vaisya in the autumn.\n5. In the time of the increasing moon, under an auspicious constellation, preferably (under a constellation) the name of which is masculine,\n6. 6 He should serve food to an even number of Br\u00e2hmanas and should cause them to say, 'An auspicious day! Hail! Good luck!'\u2014\n7. (Then he) should have the boy satiated, should\nhave his hair shaven, and after (the boy) has bathed and has been decked with ornaments\u2014\n8. He should dress him in a (new) garment which has not yet been washed.\n9. 9 In a place inclined towards the east, (or) inclined towards the north, (or) inclined towards northeast, or in an even (place), he raises (the surface on which he intends to sacrifice), sprinkles it with water,\n10. Kindles fire by attrition, or fetches common (worldly) fire, puts the fire down, and puts wood on the fire.\n11. 11 He strews eastward-pointed Darbha grass round the fire;\n12. Or (the grass which is strewn) to the west and to the east (of the fire), may be northward-pointed.\n13. 13 He (arranges the Darbha blades so as to) lay the southern (blades) uppermost, the northern ones below, if their points are turned (partly) towards the east and (partly) towards the north.\n14. 14 Having strewn Darbha grass, to the south of the fire, in the place destined for the Brahman,\n15. 15 Having with the two (verses), 'I take (the fire) to myself,' and, 'The fire which (has entered)'\u2014taken possession of the fire,\n16. 16 And having, to the north of the fire, spread out Darbha grass, he prepares the (following) objects,\naccording as they are required (for the ceremony which he is going to perform):\n17. 17 A stone, a (new) garment which has not yet been washed, a skin (of an antelope, or a spotted deer, &c.), a threefold-twisted girdle of Mu\u00f1ga grass if he is a Br\u00e2hmana (who shall be initiated), a bowstring for a R\u00e2ganya, a woollen thread for a Vaisya, a staff of Bilva or of Pal\u00e2sa wood for a Br\u00e2hmana, of Nyagrodha wood for a R\u00e2ganya, of Udumbara wood for a Vaisya.\n18. 18 He binds together the fuel, twenty-one pieces of wood, or as many as there are oblations to be made.\n19. Together with that fuel he ties up the (three) branches of wood which are to be laid round the fire, (which should have the shape of) pegs.\n20. 20 (He gets ready, besides, the spoon called) Darv\u00ee, a bunch of grass, the \u00c2gya pot, the pot for the Pran\u00eeta water, and whatever (else) is required;\n21. All (those objects) together, or (one after the other) as it happens.\n22. 22 At that time the Brahman suspends the sacrificial cord over his left shoulder, sips water, passes by the fire, on its west side, to the south side, throws away a grass blade from the Brahman's seat, touches water, and sits down with his face turned towards the fire.\n23. 23 He takes as 'purifiers' two straight Darbha blades with unbroken points of one span's length, cuts them off with something else than his nail, wipes them with water, pours water into a vessel over which he has laid the purifiers, fills (that vessel) up to near the brim, purifies (the water) three times with the two Darbha strainers, holding their points to the north, places (the water) on Darbha grass on the north side of the fire, and covers it with Darbha grass.\n24. 24 Having consecrated the Prokshan\u00ee water by means of the purifiers as before, having placed the vessels upright, and having untied the fuel, he sprinkles (the sacrificial vessels) three times with the whole (Prokshan\u00ee water).\n25. 25 Having warmed the Darv\u00ee spoon (over the fire), having wiped it, and warmed it again, he puts it down.\n26. Having besprinkled (with water) the Darbha grass with which the fuel was tied together, he throws it into the fire.\n27. 27 He melts the \u00c2gya, pours the \u00c2gya into the \u00c2gya pot over which he has laid the purifiers, takes some coals (from the fire) towards the north, puts (the \u00c2gya) on these (coals), throws light (on the\n[paragraph continues] \u00c2gya by means of burning Darbha blades), throws two young Darbha shoots into it, moves a fire-brand round it three times, takes it (from the coals) towards the north, pushes the coals back (into the fire), purifies the \u00c2gya three times with the two purifiers, holding their points towards the north, (drawing them through the \u00c2gya from west to east and) taking them back (to the west each time), throws the two purifiers into the fire,\n137:2 1, 2. The statement commonly given in the Grihya-s\u00fbtras and Dharma-s\u00fbtras is, that the initiation of a Br\u00e2hmana shall take place in his eighth year, though there are differences of opinion whether in the eighth year after conception, or after birth (\u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya I, 19, 1. 2). M\u00e2tridatta states that the rule given here in the Grihya-s\u00fbtra refers to the seventh year after birth. In the Dharma-s\u00fbtra (comp. \u00c2pastamba I, 1, 18) it is stated that the initiation of a Br\u00e2hmana shall take place in the eighth year after his conception. Comp. the remarks of Professor Bidder, S.B.E., vol. ii, p. xxiii.\n137:4 \u00c2pastamba I, 1, 18.\n137:6 Comp. \u00c2pastamba I, 13, 8 with B\u00fchler's note.\n138:9 P\u00e2raskara I, 1, 2; 4, 3; \u00c2sval\u00e2yana I, 3, 1, &c.\n138:11 \u00c2sval\u00e2yana l.l.; S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana I, 8, 1, &c.\n138:13 Gobhila I, 7, 14.\n138:14 Gobhila I, 6, 13; P\u00e2raskara I, 1, 2, &c.\n138:15 Taittir\u00eeya Samhit\u00e2 V, 9, 1. Comp. also the parallel passages, Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana VII, 3, 2, 17; K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana-Sraut. XVII, 3, 27.\n138:16 Gobhila I, 7, 1.\n139:17 S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana II, 1, 15 seqq., &c. As to the stone, comp. below, I, 1, 4, 13.\n139:18 Comp. \u00c2sval\u00e2yana I, 10, 3, and the passages quoted in the note (vol. xxix, p. 173).\n139:20 Regarding the bunch of grass, see below, I, 2, 6, 9.\n139:22 Gobhila I, 6, 14 seq. Comp. the passages quoted in the note.\n140:23 Gobhila I, 7, 21 seq.; S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana I, 8, 14 seq. The water mentioned in this S\u00fbtra is the Pran\u00eeta water.\n140:24 Regarding the Prokshan\u00ee water, see S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana I, 8, 25 note. The word which I have translated by 'vessels' is bilavanti, which literally means 'the things which have brims.' Probably this expression here has some technical connotation unknown to me. M\u00e2tridatta simply says, bilavanti p\u00e2tr\u00e2ni.\u2014'As before' means, 'as stated with regard to the Pran\u00eeta water.'\n140:25 P\u00e2raskara I, 1, 3.\n140:27 S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana I, 8, 18 seq.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30): Grihya S\u00fbtra of Hiranyakesin: I, 1, 1","type":"page"}