{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe30/sbe30095.htm","path":"hin/sbe30/sbe30095.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe30/sbe30095.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1892]\n1. He warms at the fire the implement with which he sacrifices, wipes it off with Darbha blades, warms it again, sprinkles it (with water), puts it down, touches the Darbha blades with water, and throws them into the fire.\n2. 2 As paridhis (or pieces of wood laid round the fire) yoke-pins are used at the marriage, the Upanayana, the Sam\u00e2vartana, the parting of the (wife's) hair, the tonsure of the child's hair, the cutting of the beard, and at expiatory ceremonies.\n3. He sprinkles water round the fire, on the south side from west to east with (the words), 'Aditi, give thy consent!' on the west side from south to north with 'Anumati, give thy consent!' on the north side from west to east with 'Sarasvat\u00ee [sic], give thy consent!' all around with 'God S\u00e2vitr\u00ee, give thy impulse!'\n4. At ceremonies belonging to the Fathers (water is sprinkled) only all round (the fire), silently.\n5. 5 Having put a piece of wood on the fire, he\noffers the two \u00c2gh\u00e2ra oblations as at the sacrifices of the new and full moon, silently.\n6. 6 Then he offers the two \u00c2gyabh\u00e2ga oblations, over the easterly part of the northerly part (of the fire) with (the words), 'To Agni Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!' over the easterly part of the southerly part (another oblation) exactly like the preceding one, with (the words), 'To Soma Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n7. 7 Having offered the chief oblations (belonging to each sacrifice) according to prescription, he adds the following oblations, viz. the Gaya, Abhy\u00e2t\u00e2na, R\u00e2shtrabhrit oblations, the oblation to Prag\u00e2pati, the Vy\u00e2hritis one by one, the oblation to (Agni) Svishtakrit with (the following formula), 'What I have done too much in this ceremony, or what I have done here too little, all that may Agni Svishtakrit, he who knows, make well sacrificed and well offered. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!'\n8. 8 The sprinkling (of water) round (the fire is repeated) as above; the Mantras are altered so as to say, 'Thou hast given thy consent,' 'Thou hast given thy impulse.'\n9. The designation 'P\u00e2kayag\u00f1a' is used of ceremonies connected with worldly life.\n10. 10 There the ritual based on the Br\u00e2hmana (holds good),\n11. 11 (To which the words allude), 'He sacrifices twice; he wipes off (his hand) twice; he partakes twice (of the sacrificial food); having gone away he sips (out of the Sruk) and licks off (the Sruk).'\n12. All seasons are fit for marriage with the exception of the two months of the sisira season, and of the last summer month.\n13. All Nakshatras which are stated to be pure, (are fit for marriage);\n14. And all auspicious performances.\n15. And one should learn from women what ceremonies (are required by custom).\n16. 16 Under the Invak\u00e2s (Nakshatra), (the wooers who go to the girl's father) are sent out: such wooers are welcome.\n253:2 2, 2. On the paridhi woods, comp. chiefly Hillebrandt, Neu-und Vollmondsopfer, 66 seq.\n253:5 The Srauta rules on the two \u00c2gh\u00e2ras are given Srauta-s\u00fbtra II, 12, 7; 14, 1.\n254:6 Comp. Srauta-s\u00fbtra II, 18, 5; Hillebrandt, loc. cit., p. 106, note 3.\n254:7 On the Gaya, Abhy\u00e2t\u00e2na, R\u00e2shtrabhrit formulas, comp. P\u00e2raskara I, 5, 7 seq.; Hiranyakesin I, I, 3, 7 seq.; Taitt. Samhit\u00e2 III, 4, 4-7.\u2014The last formula occurs also in \u00c2sval\u00e2yana I, 10, 23; Hiranyakesin I, I, 3, 6, &c.\n254:8 Comp. above, S\u00fbtra 3.\n254:10 According to Haradatta, this S\u00fbtra would imply that wheresoever the ritual described in the preceding S\u00fbtras holds good, p. 255 another ritual based on the Br\u00e2hmana, and more especially on the treatment of the Agnihotra in the Br\u00e2hmana, may be used in its stead.\n255:11 Comp. Taitt. Br\u00e2hmana II, 1, 4, 5; Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana II, 3, 1, 18. 21.\u2014At the Agnihotra the sacrificer, having wiped off the Sruk with his hand, wipes off the hand on the Barhis or on the earth (\u00c2past.-Sraut. VI, 10, 11; 11, 4; K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana IV, 14, 20). As to the following acts alluded to in this S\u00fbtra, comp. \u00c2pastamba VI, 11, 4. 5; 12, 2.\n255:16 On the Nakshatra Invak\u00e2s, comp. Section 3, S\u00fbtra 4. This S\u00fbtra forms a Sloka-hemistich, on which Haradatta observes, 'This verse has not been made by the S\u00fbtrak\u00e2ra.'","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30): Grihya-...","type":"page"}