{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe30/sbe30093.htm","path":"hin/sbe30/sbe30093.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe30/sbe30093.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1892]\nThe short treatise of \u00c2pastamba on the Grihya ritual forms one Prasna of the great corpus of the \u00c2pastamb\u00eeya-Kalpa-s\u00fbtra (see Sacred Books, vol. ii, p. xii) and stands, among the Grihya texts, in closest connection with the Hiranyakesi-Grihya-s\u00fbtra. The chief difference between these two S\u00fbtras, both belonging to the Taittir\u00eeya School of the Black Yagur-veda, consists herein, that \u00c2pastamba, just as has been stated above 1 with regard to Gobhila, gives only the rules for the performance of the Grihya rites without the Mantras, which are contained in a special collection, the Mantrap\u00e2tha, standing by the side of the S\u00fbtras: Hiranyakesin, on the other hand, follows the more usual practice, as adopted by S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana, \u00c2sval\u00e2yana, P\u00e2raskara, of interweaving the description of the ceremonies with the text of the corresponding Mantras. As to the relation in which the \u00c2pastamb\u00eeya-s\u00fbtras stand to the Mantrap\u00e2tha, there is, so far as I can see, no reason why we should not extend the theory which we have tried to establish with regard to Gobhila, to the evidently parallel case of \u00c2pastamba: the S\u00fbtras presuppose the existence of the Mantrap\u00e2tha, just as the latter text seems to presuppose the S\u00fbtras.\u2014The questions regarding the historical relation of \u00c2pastamba to Hiranyakesin have been treated of by Professor B\u00fchler in his Introduction to \u00c2pastamba's Dharma-s\u00fbtra, S.B.E., vol. ii, pp. xxiii seq.\nI have here to thank Dr. Winternitz, to whom we are indebted for an excellent edition of the \u00c2pastamb\u00eeya-Grihya-s\u00fbtra, for having placed at my disposal, before publication,\nthe proof-sheets of his edition, and for lending me his copy of the Mantrap\u00e2tha as well as of the commentary of Haradatta. The kindness of the same scholar has enabled me to make use of Professor Eggeling's copy of the first part of Sudarsan\u00e2rya's commentary and of his own copy of the second part of the same work.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30): Grihya-S\u00fbtra of \u00c2pastamba: Introductory Note","type":"page"}