{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe30/sbe30090.htm","path":"hin/sbe30/sbe30090.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe30/sbe30090.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1892]\n1. Now we shall explain the opening and the conclusion (of the annual course of study).\n2. 2 During the fortnight that precedes the Sravan\u00e2\nfull moon, when the herbs have appeared, under (the Nakshatra) Hasta or on the full-moon day (itself), the opening ceremony of the (annual course of) study (is performed).\n3. Having put wood on the fire and performed the rites down to the Vy\u00e2hriti oblations, he sacrifices (with his pupils) to the Rishis of the K\u00e2ndas: 'To Prag\u00e2pati, the Rishi of a K\u00e2nda, sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To Soma, the Rishi of a K\u00e2nda, sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To Agni, the Rishi of a K\u00e2nda, sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To the Visve dev\u00e2s, the Rishis of a K\u00e2nda, sv\u00e2h\u00e2! To Svayambh\u00fb, the Rishi of a K\u00e2nda, sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\u2014these are the Rishis of the K\u00e2ndas. Or (he sacrifices) to the names of the K\u00e2ndas, to the S\u00e2vitr\u00ee, to the Rig-veda, the Yagur-veda, the S\u00e2ma-veda, the Atharva-veda, and to Sadasaspati.\n4. Having (thus) sacrificed, they repeat the first three Anuv\u00e2kas,\n5. Or the beginnings of all K\u00e2ndas.\n6. He enters upon (sacrificing) the Gaya, &c. (oblations; see above, I, 1, 3, 8).\n7. After all rites down to the Svishtakrit oblation have been performed, they stop studying three days or one day; then they should go on studying so as to commence where they have broken off: so say the teachers.\n8. 8 During the fortnight that precedes the Taish\u00ee full moon, under (the Nakshatra) Rohin\u00ee or on the full-moon day (itself), the Utsarga (or conclusion of the term of study) is celebrated.\n9. 9 (The teacher) with his pupils goes in an easterly or northerly direction, and where they find a pleasant water with a pleasant bathing-place, they dive into it and perform three suppressions of the breath with the Agharmarshana hymn (Rig-veda X, 190 = Taitt. Ar. X, 1, 13. 14.). Holding purifiers (i.e. Darbha blades) in their hands they bathe with the three (verses), 'Ye waters, ye are wholesome' (Taitt. Samh. IV, 1, 5, 1), with the four (verses), 'The gold-coloured, pure, purifying waters' (T.S.V, 6, 1, 1 seq.), and with the Anuv\u00e2ka, '(Soma) which clears itself, the heavenly being' (Taitt. Br. I, 4, 8): giving the Darbha blades to each other and feigning to try to seize (??) each other.\n10. Then they arrange on a pure spot that is inclined towards the east, seats of eastward-pointed Darbha grass, so that they end in the north\u2014\n241:2 18, 2. Sravan\u00e2paksha means, according to M\u00e2tridatta, sr\u00e2vanap\u00fbrvapaksha, p. 242 and indeed the moon stands in conjunction with the Nakshatra Hasta only on one day of the first, not of the second, fortnight of the month Sr\u00e2vana (comp. the note on \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya III, 5, 2. 3). Comp. taish\u00eepakshasya rohiny\u00e2m, below, \u00a7 8.\n242:8 As to taish\u00eepaksha, comp. the note on S\u00fbtra 2.\n243:9 On the last words of this S\u00fbtra, M\u00e2tridatta says, ditsanta iveti d\u00e2tum ikkhanta iv\u00e2nyonyam prati. athav\u00e2 \u00e2ditsanta iveti p\u00e2thah. \u00e2ditsanto mushnanta iv\u00e2nyonyam.\u2014Professor Kielhorn's text MS. has, \u00e2tsamta iv\u00e2nyonyam; Professor B\u00fchler's text MS., ditsamta iv\u00e2nyonyam.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30): Grihya S\u00fbtra of Hiranyakesin: II, 8, 18","type":"page"}