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SÂN KHẤYANA-GRIHYA-SOTRA.
the verse, O Indra, the best treasures' (II, 21, 6); the verse, 'The swan dwelling in purity' (IV, 40, 5); the verse, 'Adoration to the great ones' (I, 27, 13); the verse, 'What we fear, Indra' (VIII, 50, 13); the verse, 'And of the sleep' (I, 120, 12); the verse, 'He who says to me, O king' (II, 28, 10); the hymn, * Let glory be mine, Agni' (X, 128); and the five verses, ‘Bliss may create for us' (V, 51, 11 seq.).
Kuanda 5. 1. There are four kinds of Pâkayagñas, viz. the Huta, the Auuta, the PRAHUTA, and the PRÂSITA.
2. On the following five occasions, viz. the wedding, the tonsure (of the child's head), the initiation (of the Brahmakârin), the cutting of the beard, and the parting of the hair, (on these occasions) in the outer hall
3. To a place that has been smeared (with cowdung), which is elevated, and which has been sprinkled (with water), he carries forward the fire,
4. Having kindled it by rubbing, according to some teachers, at his marriage.
5. During the northern course of the sun, in the
5, 1. This Satra and the following ones down to the fifth are identical with Paraskara I, 4, 1-5; it seems to me that we have here before us the opening Sûtras of a lost text from which this passage has been copied both by Sânkhayana and Paraskara. Comp. the preface of the second volume of the Grihya-sútras.
With regard to the fourfold division of Pakayagñas stated here comp. below, chap. 10, 7.
2. Comp. the Kârikâ quoted by Nârâyana, 'vivâhâdishu bâhyo 'gnir mandape ka tad ishyata iti.'
3. On the Agni-pranayana comp. the details given in the Grihyasamgraha-parisishta (Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, vol. xxxv), I, 64-69.
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| SR No. | 007678 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Julius Eggeling |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1885 |
| Total Pages | 2521 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 44 MB |