{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe30/sbe30081.htm","path":"hin/sbe30/sbe30081.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe30/sbe30081.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1892]\n1. 1 Now follows the distribution of Pal\u00e2sa leaves (at different places).\n2. 'Protector of the house, touch them! To the protector of the house sv\u00e2h\u00e2! Protectress of the\nhouse, touch them! To the protectress of the house sv\u00e2h\u00e2! Protector of the door, touch them! To the protector of the door sv\u00e2h\u00e2! Protectress of the door, touch them! To the protectress of the door sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\u2014with (these formulas) he puts down four leaves; (then other leaves) with (the formulas), 'Noisy ones, touch them! To the noisy ones sv\u00e2h\u00e2! Quivered ones. . . ye that run in the rear . . . Minglers (?) . . . Choosers . . . Eaters, touch them! To the eaters sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\u2014\n3. Then again ten (leaves) with (the formula), 'Divine hosts, touch them! To the divine hosts sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n4. Then other ten (leaves) with (the formula), 'Divine hosts that are named and that are not named, touch them! To them sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n5. 5 Then he makes a basket of leaves, puts into it a lump of boiled rice with an 'under-spreading' (of \u00c2gya) and sprinkling (\u00c2gya) on it, goes outside his pasture-grounds, and hangs (the basket) up at a tree with (the formula), 'Quivered ones, touch it! To the quivered ones sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n6. 6 He then performs worship (before that basket) with (the formula), 'Adoration to the quivered one, to him who wears the quiver! To the lord of the thieves adoration!'\n7. 7 With sandal salve, sur\u00e2 and water, unground, fried grains, cow-dung, with a bunch of d\u00fbrv\u00e2 grass, with Udumbara, Pal\u00e2sa, Sami, Vika\u1e45kata, and\n[paragraph continues] Asvattha (branches), and with a cow-tail he besprinkles his cows, the bull first, with (the words), 'Bring luck! Bring luck!' Then (the bull) will bring him luck.\n8. 8 He then cooks that mess of sacrificial food, sacred to Kshetrapati (the lord of the field), with milk, sprinkles it (with \u00c2gya), takes it from the fire, and performs a sacrifice to Kshetrapati on the path where his cows use to go, without a fire, on four or on seven leaves.\n9. He has him (i.e. the Kshetrapati? an ox representing Kshetrapati?) led (to his place) in the same way as the s\u00fblagava (chap. 8, \u00a7 2).\n10. 10 He sacrifices quickly, (for) the god has a strong digestion (?).\n11. He then performs worship with (the two verses), 'With the lord of the field,' 'Lord of the field' (Taitt. Samh. I, 1, 14, 2. 3).\n12. Of (the remains of that sacrificial food) sacred to Kshetrapati his uterine relations should partake, according as the custom of their family is.\nEnd of the Third Patala.\n222:1 9, 1. The text has baudhyavih\u00e2ra, on which the commentary observes, baudhy\u00e2ni pal\u00e2saparn\u00e2ni, tesh\u00e2m vih\u00e2ro viharanam n\u00e2n\u00e2deseshu sth\u00e2panam baudhyavih\u00e2rah, karman\u00e2ma v\u00e2. The baudhyavih\u00e2ra is, as its description clearly shows, a ceremony for propitiating Rudra and his hosts and for averting evil from the cattle and the fields. The commentary understands it as forming part of the s\u00fblagava described in chap. 8, and with this opinion it would agree very well that no indication of the time at which the baudhyavih\u00e2ra ought to be performed (such as \u00e2p\u00fbryam\u00e2napakshe punye nakshatre) is given. Comp. also \u00c2pastamba VII, 20, 5 seq.\n223:5 I have translated avadh\u00e2ya (instead of avad\u00e2ya), as \u00c2pastamba VII, 20, 7 reads.\n223:6 Taittir\u00eeya Samhit\u00e2 IV, 5, 3, 2. Of course the god to whom these designations refer is Rudra.\n223:7 The commentary explains surodaka as rain-water, or as rainwater which has fallen while the sun was shining.\n224:8 M\u00e2tridatta says, kshaitrapatyam kshetrapatidevat\u00e2kam payasi sth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2kam, &c. The meaning of the expression 'that (enam) mess of sacrificial food' is doubtful; the commentary says, enam iti p\u00fbrv\u00e2peksham p\u00fbrvavad aup\u00e2sana ev\u00e2sy\u00e2pi srapan\u00e2rtham.\u2014The last words (on four or on seven leaves) the commentator transfers to the next S\u00fbtra, but he mentions the different opinion of other authorities.\n224:10 n\u00fbrtte s\u00eeghram yagate. kutah. yatah sa devah p\u00e2kah pakanas\u00eelas t\u00eekshmas (read, t\u00eekshnas) tasm\u00e2t. M\u00e2tridatta.\u2014Possibly Dr. Kirste is right in reading t\u00fbrtam; the corresponding S\u00fbtra of \u00c2pastamba has kshipram (VII, 20, 15), and, as the Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana (VI, 3, 2, 2) observes, 'yad vai kshipram tat t\u00fbrtam.'","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30): Grihya S\u00fbtra of Hiranyakesin: II, 3, 9","type":"page"}