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 9
1[1]. Now (follows) the Sapiṇḍīkaraṇa.
2[2]. Let him fill four water-pots (for the Manes) from the father upwards,
3. And prepare in the same way lumps (of flour),
4. And let him distribute the first lump on the (other) three with (the verses), They who commonly, concordantly (dwell) in Yama's realm, the fathers: for them be space, freedom, adoration, sacrifice established among the gods.
'They who commonly, harmoniously (dwell), the living among the living, mine: may their prosperity fall to my lot in this world through a hundred years'—
And with the two (verses), 'Equal the design' (Rig-veda X, 191, 3. 4).
5[3]. In the same way the vessels with Argha water.
6. In the same way for the mother, for a brother, and for a wife that has died before (her husband), adding (the lump belonging to that person) to those (other) lumps.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
9, 1 seqq. Comp. above, IV, 3 and the notes there.
[2]:
On these four vessels, see IV, 3, 4 seq.
[3]:
These are the vessels mentioned in the second Sūtra.