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 VI, Khaṇḍa 1

1[1]. Now, after having paid reverence to Brahman, to the Brahmaṛṣi, to (those who descend from) Brahman's womb, to Indra, Prajāpati, Vasiṣṭha, Vāmadeva, Kahola Kauṣītaki, Mahākauṣītaki, Suyajña Śāṅkhāyana, Āśvalāyana, Aitareya, Mahaitareya, Kātyāyana, Śāṭyāyana, Śākalya, Babhru, Bābhravya, Maṇḍu, Māṇḍavya, and to all the teachers of the past, we will henceforth explain the rules for the Āraṇyaka as forming the subject of Svādhyāya (private recitation of a text).

2[2]. The teacher abstains through one day and one night from sexual intercourse and from eating flesh.

3[3]. Raw flesh, a Kaṇḍāla, a woman that has lately been confined, or that has her courses, seeing blood or persons whose hands have been cut off: (these persons and things he shall know form) impediments for the study.

4. And of the corpse-like (animals?).

5. Those which enter (their dens?) with the mouth first (?).

6[4]. Especially the Śakvarī verses (are concerned by what has been declared). Such are the rules.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

1, 1 seqq. Comp. the general remarks on this sixth book in the Introduction, p. 11.

[2]:

Comp. II, 11, 6.

[3]:

Comp. II, 12, 10, and the note of Nārāyaṇa, p. 160 of the German edition.

[4]:

2, 2. It seems to me that this Sūtra should be divided into two (after śakvaryaḥ), so that the words iti niyamāḥ would correspond to iti bhāṣikam, chap. 2, 13.

[5]:

Comp. IV, 7, 42. See also Ait. Āraṇyaka V, 3, 9.

[6]:

Comp. IV, 7, 5.

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