Bharadvaja-srauta-sutra
by C. G. Kashikar | 1964 | 166,530 words
The English translation of the Bharadvaja-Srauta-Sutra, representing some of the oldest texts on Hindu rituals and rites of passages, dating to at least the 1st millennium BCE. The term Srautasutra refers to a class of Sanskrit Sutra literature dealing with ceremonies based on the Brahmana divisions of the Veda (Sruti). They include Vedic rituals r...
Praśna 15, Kaṇḍikā 3
1. When the vasatīvarī water is going to be taken,[1] the Brahman should go along the south.
2. He should remain towards the south while it is being taken.[2]
3. When others wake up[3] for the Prātaranuvāka, he should wake.
4. His route should be the same as that[4] followed while the Sadas and the Havirdhāna were being measured.
5. After the reciting of the Prātaranuvāka[5] is initiated, he should restrain speech until the enclosing of the reciting.
6. When the water relating to the pressing is going to be taken,[6] he should go along the south.
7. He should remain towards the south while it is being taken.[7]
8. He should go along the south while it is being fetched.[8]
9. When the Soma is going to be pressed,[9] he should enter the Havirdhāna by the eastern door, cross over in front of the mound, and sit down towards the south.
10. He should remain towards the south while the Soma is being measured[10] and while it is being pressed[11].
11. While the cups are being filled in,[12] he should restrain speech. (H< should do so) until the filling in of the Āgrayaṇa vessel.[13]
12. Similarly at each pressing, he should remain towards the south while the Soma is being pressed; he should restrain speech while the cups are being filled in.[14]
13. When the relevant officiating priests are crawling for the Bahiṣpavamānastotra,[15] he should crawl maintaining contact.
14. When the Sāman-chanters are going to chant that Stotra,[16] he should sit down towards the south.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
XII.20.5.
[2]:
XII.20.6. According to Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra XIV.9.3, he should remain towards the south while it is being carried around.
[3]:
XIV.1.1.
[4]:
XV.1.6.
[5]:
XIII.3.11.
[6]:
XIII.4.2.
[7]:
XIII.4.6.
[8]:
[9]:
XIII.6.11.
[10]:
XIII.9.13.
[11]:
XIII.12.1.
[12]:
XIII.13.2.
[13]:
XIII.15.7.
[14]:
XIII.13.2.
[15]:
XIII.16.15.
[16]:
XIII.17.2.