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 11
1. If an anthill arises in his house, the house should be abandoned.
2[1]. Then, after having fasted three nights (and days), he should perform the great expiation.
Here ends the Fifth Adhyāya.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
11, 2. Nārāyaṇa understands the 'great expiation' as a rite directed to Ganeśa and to the planets (comp. Yājñavalkya I, 276 seq., 292, &c.); that this ceremony was known already to the author of this Sūtra seems very doubtful. Another 'mahāśānti' is frequently mentioned in the Kauśika-sūtra (quoted in Böhtlingk-Roth's Dictionary); comp. my German edition of Sāṅkhāyana, p. 159.