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 V, Khaṇḍa 3
1[1]. Now at (the consecration of) a garden: having established the (sacred) fire (in that garden),
2. (And) having prepared a mess of cooked food,
3. He shall sacrifice with (the formulas), 'To Viṣṇu svāhā! To Indra and Agni svāhā! To Viśvakarman svāhā!' (and with the verses), 'Whom the men' (Rig-veda III, 8, 6 seq.), verse by verse.
4. He recites over (the garden), 'O tree with thy hundred branches' (Rig-veda III, 8, 11).
5. The fee for the sacrifice is gold.
Footnotes and references:
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3, 1 seqq. Comp. Āśvalāyana-Pariśiṣṭa IV, so. Nārāyaṇa uses for the ceremony here described the expressions Ārāmapratiṣṭhā, Ārāmotsarga.