Sankhayana-grihya-sutra
by Hermann Oldenberg | 1886 | 37,785 words
The Grihya-sutra ascribed to Shankhayana, which has been edited and translated into German in the XVth volume of the "Indische Studien", is based on the first of the four Vedas, the Rig-veda in the Bashkala recension, and among the Brahmana texts, on the Kaushitaka. Alternative titles: Śāṅkhāyana-gṛhya-sūtra (शाङ्खायन-गृह्य-सूत्र), Shank...
Adhyāya I, Khaṇḍa 2
1. At the end of the sacrificial acts (follows) the distribution of food to Brāhmaṇas.
2. Voice, (pleasantness of) form, age, learning, moral character, (right) conduct are the qualities (required in the Brāhmaṇas who are to be invited thereto).
3. Learning, however, outweighs every (other qualification).
4. A learned one should not be passed over.
5. 'The threefold (knowledge, viz. that) which refers to the deities, that which refers to the Ātman, and that which refers to sacrifice,
'(Handed down) in the Mantras and in the Brāhmaṇa: this is called learning.
6. 'A performer of the sacred rights, a man who has studied (the Veda), who is old in learning and devoted to austerities:
'He who gives food (even) once to such (a Brāhmaṇa), hunger will not befall that man any more.
7. 'Whatsoever deity he may wish to satiate at any sacrifice,
'Destining it to that (deity) in his mind, he shall give (the food) to a person like that.
8. 'An oblation deposited in a person like that will never miss its way to the deity;
'Treasure of men, vessel of gods (in which they receive what is given to them) he is called.'