{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe30/sbe30073.htm","path":"hin/sbe30/sbe30073.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe30/sbe30073.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1892]\n1. Now (follows) the S\u00eemantonnayana (or parting of the pregnant wife's hair).\n2. In the fourth month of her first pregnancy, in the fortnight of the increasing moon, under an auspicious constellation he puts wood on the fire, performs the rites down to the Vy\u00e2hriti oblations, and makes four oblations to Dh\u00e2tri with (the verse), 'May Dh\u00e2tri give us wealth' (and the following three verses, Taitt. Samh. III, 3, II, 2. 3).\n3. 3 'This, O Varuna' (&c.; see I, chap. 27, S\u00fbtra 2, down to): 'Hail! Good luck!'\nHe then makes the wife who has taken a bath, who wears a clean dress and ornaments, and has spoken with a Br\u00e2hmana, sit down to the west of the fire, facing the east, in a round apartment. Standing to the east (of the wife), facing the west he parts her hair upwards (i.e. beginning from the front) with a porcupine's quill that has three white spots, holding (also) a bunch of unripe fruits, with the Vy\u00e2hritis (and) with the two (verses), 'I invoke R\u00e2k\u00e2,' (and), 'Thy graces, O R\u00e2k\u00e2' (Taitt. Samh. III, 3, 11, 5). Then he recites over (his wife the formulas), 'Soma alone is our king, thus say the Br\u00e2hmana tribes, sitting near thy banks, O Ga\u1e45g\u00e2,\nwhose wheel does not roll back (?)!' (and), 'May we find our way with thee through all hostile powers, as through streams of water' (above I, 20, 5).\n208:3 1, 3. The corrupt word vivrittakakr\u00e2(h) seems to contain a vocative fem. referring to Ga\u1e45ge\u2014avivrittakakra? The \u00c2pastamb\u00eeya Mantrap\u00e2tha reads, vivrittakakra \u00e2s\u00een\u00e2s t\u00eerena yamune tava. Comp. \u00c2sval\u00e2yana I, 14, 7; P\u00e2raskara I, 15, 8.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30): Grihya S\u00fbtra of Hiranyakesin: II, 1, 1","type":"page"}