Apastamba Grihya-sutra
by Hermann Oldenberg | 1892 | 21,043 words
The short treatise of Apastamba on the Grihya ritual forms one Prashna of the great corpus of the Apastambiya-Kalpa-sutra and stands, among the Grihya texts, in closest connection with the Hiranyakeshi-Grihya-sutra. Alternative titles: Āpastamba-gṛhya-sūtra (आपस्तम्ब-गृह्य-सूत्र), Grhya, Āpastambagṛhyasūtra (आपस्तम्बगृह्यसूत्र), Apastambagrihyasut...
Praśna 7, Section 19
1. The unground grain (which is left over, see above, VII, 18, 11) they give to the boys to eat.
2. Let him repeat in the same way this Bali-offering of whatever food he has got or of flour, from that day to full moon of (the month) Mārgaśīrṣa.
3. On the day of the full moon of Mārgaśīrṣa after sunset a Sthālīpāka (is offered as above, VII, 18, 5).
4. In the Mantra for the Bali-offering he changes (the word 'I shall offer' into) 'I have offered.'
5. Then he does not offer (the Bali) any longer.
6. (Now follows) the Āgrayaṇa sacrifice (or partaking of the first-fruits) of one who has not set up the (Śrauta) fires.
7. He prepares a Sthālīpāka of the fresh fruits, sacrifices to the deities of the (Śrauta) Āgrayaṇa sacrifice with (Agni) Sviṣṭakṛt as the fourth, fills his mouth with grains, swallows them, sips water, forms a lump of the boiled (sacrificial) food, and throws it up with the next Yajus (II, 18, 1) to the summit of the house.
8.[1] (Now follows) the 'redescent' in the winter.
9. With the next Yajus (II, 18, 2) they 'redescend' (or take as their sleeping-place a layer of straw instead of the high bedsteads which they have used before). With the next Yajus formulas (II, 18, 3-7) they lie down on a new layer (of straw) on their right sides,
10. The father to the south, the mother to the north (of him), and so the others, one after the other from the eldest to the youngest.
11. After he has arisen, he touches the earth with the next two (verses, II, 18, 8. 9).
12. In the same way the lying down, &c., is repeated thrice.
13.[2] Having prepared a Sthālīpāka for Lana and one for Kṣetrapati, he goes out in an easterly or northerly direction, prepares a raised surface, (and then follow the ceremonies) beginning with the putting of wood on the fire.
14. To the west of the fire he builds two huts.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Comp. the note on Śāṅkhāyana IV, 17, 1.
[2]:
The description of the śūlagava sacrifice, which here follows, agrees in most points with the statements of Hiraṇyakeśin II, 3, 8.