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 14
1. On the last (Aṣṭakā) he sacrifices cakes,
2. With the words, 'The Ukthya and the Atirātra. the Sadyaḥkrī together with the metre—Aṣṭakā!
Preparer of cakes! Adoration to thee, O glad-faced one. Svāhā!
3[1]. A cow or a goat is the animal (to be sacrificed), or a mess of cooked food (should be offered).
4. Or he may optionally offer food to a cow.
5[2]. Or he may optionally burn down brushwood in the forest and say, 'This is my Aṣṭakā.'
6. But let him not neglect to do (one of these things). But let him not neglect to do (one of these things).
Here ends the Third Adhyāya.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
14, 3-6. This is one of the passages which the author has taken unchanged from a more ancient Sūtra; see Āśv. II, 4, 8-11; Gobhila IV, 1 (end of the chapter). The Sūtras do not refer, as their position would seem to indicate, to the third, but to the second Aṣṭakā.
[2]:
Comp. Weber, loc. cit., p. 342, note 1.