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 II, Khaṇḍa 8

1[1]. In the afternoon, having obtained by begging fried barley grains, he shall sacrifice them with his hand on the fire according to the rites of the Ājya oblations with the text, 'The lord of the seat, the wonderful' (Rig-veda I, 18, 6 seq.), verse by verse, down to the end of the hymn,

2[2]. Causing the teacher by (the gift of) food to pronounce auspicious wishes.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

8, 1. This is the Anupravacanīyahoma treated of by Āśvalāyana at I, 22, 12 seq. There it is stated that this sacrifice should be performed as well after the recitation of the Sāvitrī as after the other p. 74 portions of the Veda, for instance, as the commentary there has it, after the Mahānāmnīs, the Mahāvrata, and the Upaniṣad have been recited. Nārāyaṇa indicates the time of this sacrifice in the words, 'On that same fast-day (chap. 7, 29) in the afternoon.'

[2]:

'He shall, by pronouncing such words as svasti bhavanto bruvantu, dispose the teacher favourably so that he may say svasti!' Nārāyaṇa.

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