{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe30/sbe30055.htm","path":"hin/sbe30/sbe30055.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe30/sbe30055.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1892]\n1. They bring him a chariot, (or) a horse, or an elephant.\n2. 2 'Thou art the (S\u00e2man called) Rathantara; thou art the V\u00e2madevya; thou art the Brihat;' the (verse), 'The two A\u1e45kas, the two Nya\u1e45kas' (Taitt. Samhit\u00e2 I, 7, 7, 2); (the verse), 'May this your chariot, O Asvins, not suffer damage, neither in pain nor in joy. May it make its way without damage, dispersing those who infest us;' (and the formula), 'Here is holding, here is keeping asunder; here is enjoyment, here may it enjoy itself:' with (these texts) he ascends the chariot, if he enters (the village) on a chariot.\n3. 3 'A horse art thou, a steed art thou'\u2014with these eleven 'horses\u2019 names' (Taitt. Samh. VII, 1, 12) (he mounts) the horse, if (he intends to enter the village) on horseback.\n4. 4 With (the formula), 'With Indra's thunderbolt I bestride thee; carry (me); carry the time; carry me forward to bliss. An elephant art thou. The elephant's glory art thou. The elephant's splendour art thou. May I become endowed with the elephant's glory, with the elephant's splendour'\u2014(he mounts) the elephant, if (he intends to proceed to the village) on it.\n5. 5 He goes to a place where they will do honour to him.\n6. With (the verse), 'May the quarters (of the horizon) stream together with me; may all delight assemble (here). May all wishes that are dear to us, come near unto us; may (our) dear (wishes) stream towards us'\u2014he worships the quarters of the horizon.\n7. While approaching the person who is going to do honour to him, he looks at him with (the words), 'Glory art thou; may I become glory with thee.'\n8. Then (the host who is going to offer the Argha reception to the Sn\u00e2taka), having prepared the dwelling-place (for his reception), says to him, 'The Argha (will be offered)!'\n9. (The guest) replies, 'Do so!'\n10. 10 They prepare for him (the Madhuparka or 'honey mixture') consisting of three or of five substances.\n11. The three substances are, curds, honey, and ghee.\n12. The five substances are, curds, honey, ghee, water, and ground grains.\n13. Having poured curds into a brass vessel, he pours honey into it, (and then the other substances stated above).\n14. 14 Having poured (those substances) into a smaller vessel, and having covered it with a larger (cover than the vessel is), (the host) makes (the guest) accept (the following things) separately, one after the other, viz. a bunch of grass (to sit down on),\nwater for washing the feet, the Argha water, water for sipping, and the honey-mixture (Madhuparka).\n15. 15 Going after (the single objects which are brought to the guest, the host) in a faultless, not faltering (?) voice, announces (each of those objects to the guest).\n16. The bunch of grass (he announces by three times saying), 'The bunch of grass!'\n17. 17 (The guest) sits down thereon facing the east, with (the formula), 'A giver of royal power art thou, a teacher's seat; may I not withdraw from thee.'\n18. (The host) then utters to him the announcement, 'The water for washing the feet!'\n19. 19 With that (water) a S\u00fbdra or a S\u00fbdra woman washes his feet; the left foot first for a Br\u00e2hmana, the right for a person of the two other castes.\n170:2 12, 2. Comp. P\u00e2raskara III, 14, 3-6.\n170:3 In this S\u00fbtra three 'horses\u2019 names' are given as the Prat\u00eeka of the Yagus quoted, 'Thou art asva, thou art haya, thou art maya.' M\u00e2tridatta observes that the third of them is not found in the Taittir\u00eeya Samhit\u00e2, which gives only ten, and not eleven, horses\u2019 names.\n170:4 P\u00e2raskara III, 15, 1 seq.\n171:5 \u00c2sval\u00e2yana III, 9, 3; S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana III, 1, 14.\n171:10 10 seq. P\u00e2raskara I, 3, 5; \u00c2sval\u00e2yana I, 24, 5 seq.\n171:14 P\u00e2raskara, loc. cit.; \u00c2sval\u00e2yana, loc. cit., \u00a7 7.\n172:15 The text is corrupt and the translation very doubtful. The MSS. have, anusamvrigin\u00e2 so\u093dnupaki\u00f1kay\u00e2 v\u00e2k\u00e2. M\u00e2tridatta's note, which is also very corrupt, runs thus: anusamvragin\u00e2 saha k\u00fbrk\u00e2din\u00e2 dravyena tad agratah kritv\u00e2nugant\u00e2. anusamvrigineti (sic: anugakhamnnusamv\u00b0, Dr. Kielhorn's MS.) pram\u00e2dap\u00e2thah. samprad\u00e2t\u00e2nupaki\u00f1kay\u00e2 na vidyata upagh\u00e2tik\u00e2 v\u00e2g yasya [yasy\u00e2, Dr. K.\u2019s MS.] seyam anupaki\u00f1k\u00e2 v\u00e2k . . . kekid anusamvrigineti (anusamvragineti, Dr. Kirste) p\u00e2th\u00e2ntaram kritv\u00e2 v\u00e2gviseshanam ikkhanti yath\u00e2 mrisht\u00e2 v\u00e2k samskrit\u00e2 v\u00e2k tath\u00e2 keti. apare yath\u00e2p\u00e2tham ev\u00e2rtham ikkhanti.\u2014Perhaps we may correct, anusamvriginay\u00e2nupaki\u00f1kay\u00e2 v\u00e2k\u00e2. Comp. below, I, 4, 13, 16.\n172:17 See above, I, 2, 6, 9.\n172:19 P\u00e2raskara I, 3, 10. 11; \u00c2sval\u00e2yana I, 24, 11.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30): Grihya S\u00fbtra of Hiranyakesin: I, 4, 12","type":"page"}