{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe30/sbe30066.htm","path":"hin/sbe30/sbe30066.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe30/sbe30066.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1892]\n1. (Then follow the Mantras), 'I know thee as the firm Brahman. May I become firm in this world and in this country.\n'I know thee as the immovable Brahman. May I not be moved away from this world and from this country. May he who hates me, my rival, be moved away from this world and from this country.\n'I know thee as the unshaken Brahman. May I not be shaken off from this world and from this country. May he who hates me, my rival, be shaken off from this world and from this country.\n'I know thee as the unfailing Brahman. May I not fall from this world and from this country. May he who hates me, my rival, fall from this world and from this country.\n'I know thee as the nave of the universe. May I become the nave of this country. I know thee as the centre of the universe. May I become the centre of this country. I know thee as the string that holds the universe. May I become the string that holds this country. I know thee as the pillar\nof the universe. May I become the pillar of this country. I know thee as the navel of the universe. May I become the navel of this country.\n'As the navel is the centre of the Pr\u00e2nas, thus I am the navel. May hundred-and-onefold evil befall him who hates us and whom we hate; may more than hundred-and-onefold merit fall to my lot!'\n2. Having spoken there with a person that he likes, and having returned to the house, he causes her to sacrifice a mess of cooked food.\n3. The wife husks (the rice grains of which that Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ka is prepared).\n4. She cooks (that Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ka), sprinkles (\u00c2gya) on it, takes it from the fire, sacrifices to Agni, and then sacrifices to Agni Svishtakrit.\n5. 5 With (the remains of) that (Sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ka) he entertains a learned Br\u00e2hmana whom he reveres.\n6. To that (Br\u00e2hmana) he makes a present of a bull.\n7. From that time he constantly sacrifices (yagate) on the days of the full and of the new moon a mess of cooked food sacred to Agni.\n8. In the evening and in the morning he constantly sacrifices (guhoti) with his hand (and not with the Darv\u00ee) the two following oblations of rice or of barley: 'To Agni Sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To Prag\u00e2pati Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n9. Some (teachers) state that in the morning the\nformer (of these oblations) should be directed to S\u00fbrya.\n10. Through a period of three nights they should eat no saline food, should sleep on the ground, wear ornaments, and should be chaste.\n11. 11 In the fourth night, towards morning, he puts wood on the fire, performs the (regular) ceremonies down to the (regular) expiatory oblations, and sacrifices nine expiatory oblations (with the following Mantras):\n196:5 5, 6. In the commentary these S\u00fbtras are divided thus: 5. tena br\u00e2hmanam vidy\u00e2vantam pariveveshti; 6. yo\u093dsy\u00e2pakito bhavati tasm\u00e2 rishabham dad\u00e2ti. (5. Therewith he entertains a learned Br\u00e2hmana. 6. To one whom he reveres, he presents a bull.) The commentator observes that some authorities make one S\u00fbtra of the two, so that the Br\u00e2hmana who receives the food and the one to whom the bull is given, would be the same person.\n197:11 According to the commentary he performs the regular ceremonies down to the oblation offered with the Mantra, 'Thus thou, Agni' (see above, I, 3, 5, and compare P\u00e2raskara I, 2, 8). M\u00e2tridatta says, pr\u00e2yaskittiparyantam kritv\u00e2 sa tvam no Agna ity etadantam kritv\u00e2 nava pr\u00e2yaskitt\u00eer guhoti . . . vy\u00e2hritiparyantam kritv\u00e2 imam me Varuneti katasro (I, 3, 5) hutvait\u00e2 guhoti.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30): Grihya S\u00fbtra of Hiranyakesin: I, 7, 23","type":"page"}