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 III, Khaṇḍa 6
1. One who has not set up the (sacred Śrauta) fires, when setting out on a journey, looks at his house.
2. (He murmurs the text,) 'Do ye both, Mitra and Varuṇa, protect this house for me; unscathed, undisturbed, may Pūṣan guard it till our return;'
3. And murmurs (the verse), 'Upon the path we have entered' (Rig-veda VI, 51, 16).