________________
II2
SÂNKHẤYANA-GR/HYA-SOTRA.
15. The rest is the same (as in the other kinds of Sraddha rites), as far as it is not prohihited (by contrary rules).
KHANDA 5.
1. Now (follows) the Upakarana (i.e. the ceremony by which the annual course of study is opened).
2. When the herbs appear, under the Nakshatra Hasta or Sravana,
3. Let him make oblations of the flour of fried barley and of grains, mixed with curds and ghee, with the (whole) Veda, verse by verse: thus say some (teachers).
4. Or with the first verses of the Saktas and Anuvâkas.
5. With the first verses of the Adhyâyas and of the sections belonging to the (different) Rishis, according to Mândûkeya.
6. But Kaushitaki has said :
7. 'I praise Agni the Purohita' (Rig-veda I, 1, 1), this one verse,
8. The Kushumbhaka (mungoose ?) has said it;' If thou criest, O bird, announce luck to us ;' 'Sung by Gamadagni;''In thy abode the whole world rests;'
5, 1. As to the Upakarana, see the statements of Professor Weber in his second article on the Nakshatras, Abhandlungen der Berliner Akademie, 1861, p. 338, and of Professor Bühler in his notes on Âpastamba, S. B. E., II, pp. 110, 111.
2. The Nakshatra Sravana is evidently considered as particularly fit for this occasion because of its name containing an allusion to sruti, &c.
4. I have followed Narayana, but perhaps I ought to have translated, Saktas or Anuvâkas,' and in the fifth Sätra, Adhyâyas or the sections, &c.'
Digitized by Google
