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 II, Khaṇḍa 6
1[1]. 'Waters are ye by name; happy ones are ye by name; sappy ones are ye by name; undecaying ones are ye by name; fearless ones are ye by name; immortal ones are ye by name. Of you, being such, may I partake; receive me into your favour'—with these words (the teacher) makes the student sip water three times,
2[2]. And hands over to him the staff with the five verses, 'Blessing may give us' (Rig-veda V, 51, 11-15).
3[3]. An optional gift is the fee for the sacrifice.
4[4]. After (the teacher) has led him round the fire, turning his right side towards it, (the student) goes through the village to beg food.
5. (Let him beg,) however, of his mother first,
6. Or of a woman who will not refuse.
7[5]. Having announced the alms to his teacher, he may eat (the food himself) with the master's permission.
8. The daily putting on of fuel, the going for alms, the sleeping on the ground, and obedience to the teacher: these are the standing duties of a student.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
6, 1, 2. Rāmacandra: '. . . with this Mantra which the teacher tells him, and which he (the student) pronounces, he sips water p. 68 three times . . . He (the teacher) then gives him again the staff, which he had given him before silently.' I do not think that this double handing over of the staff agrees with the real meaning of the text; Gobhila also (II, 10) and Āśvalāyana (I, 22, 1) prescribe the daṇḍapradāna after the repetition of the Sāvitrī, without mentioning that the same had been already done before; Pāraskara II, 2, II speaks of the handing over of the staff before the recital of the Sāvitrī, and does not state that it should be repeated afterwards.
[2]:
These five verses have already occurred above at I, 15, 12.
[3]:
Comp. I, 14, 13-15.
[4]:
4 seq. On the student's begging of alms compare the more detailed rules in Pāraskara II, 5; Āpastamba I, 3, &c.
[5]:
Comp. the passages quoted by Professor Bühler on Āpastamba I, 3, 31 (S.B.E., vol. ii, p. 22).