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 20
1. In the third month the Puṃsavana (i.e. the ceremony to secure the birth of a male child),
2. Under (the Nakṣatra) Puṣya or Śravaṇa.
3[1]. Having pounded a Soma stalk, or a Kuśa needle, or the last shoot of a Nyagrodha trunk, or the part of a sacrificial post which is exposed to the fire,
4. Or (having taken) after the completion of a sacrifice the remnants from the Juhū ladle,
5[2]. Let him sprinkle it into her right nostril with the four verses, 'By Agni may good' (Rig-veda I, 1, 3), 'That sperm to us' (III, 4, 9), 'May he succeed who lights fire' (V, 37, 2), 'Of tawny shape' (II, 3, 9), with Svāhā at the end (of each verse).
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
20, 3. On śuṅgā compare the note of Nārāyaṇa and the verse quoted from the Karmapradīpa, p. 131 of the German edition.
[2]:
Nasto dakṣiṇataḥ stands here as in chap. 19, 1. Āśvalāyana I, 13, 6 has dakṣiṇasyāṃ nāsikāyām, and so has also p. 47 Pāraskara I, 13. Comp. the natthukamma treated of in the Pāli Buddhist texts (Mahāvagga VI, 13) and in the medical literature.