Satapatha Bramhana Part 02

SR No.: 007678
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

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PÂRASKARA-GRIHYA-SOTRA.
"To me Brihaspati has given thee; obtaining offspring through me, thy husband, live with me a hundred autumns.'
20. If she does not see (the polar-star), let her say notwithstanding, ' I see,' &c.
21. Through a period of three nights they shall eat no saline food; they shall sleep on the ground; through one year they shall refrain from conjugal intercourse, or through a period of twelve nights, or of six nights, or at least of three nights.
Kandik 9. 1. Beginning from the wedding the worshipping of the Aupâsana (i.e.sacred domestic) fire (is prescribed).
2. After sunset and before sunrise (the fire should 21. Sânkhâyana I, 17, 5. 6; Âsvalâyana I, 8, 10.11.
9, 1. The expression which I have translated 'beginning from the wedding' is upayamanaprabhriti. The Indian commentators and Professor Stenzler explain the term upayamana as implying a reference to the Sätra I, I, 4, upayamanan kusân âdâya (having taken up the Kusa blades with which he is to take hold of the lower surface of the Agya pot'). The worshipping of the domestic fire,' says Stenzler, following the native authorities, consists in the rites which have been prescribed above (I, I, 4), beginning from the word upayamana, i.e. in the taking up of the Kusa blades, the putting of wood on the fire, the sprinkling and sacrificing. As the rites preceding that word, such as the preparation of the sacrificial spoon (I, 1, 3), are hereby excluded, the oblations are offered with the hand.' It would be easy to show that the upaya manâh kusâh have nothing at all to do with the regular morning and evening oblations of which these Sûıras treat. The comparison of ÂsvalâyanaGrihya I, 9, I (see also Manu III, 67, &c.) leaves no doubt that upaya mana is to be understood here as derived from upayakkhati in its very frequent meaning of marrying. I have translated the Sûtra accordingly.
2. On the different statements of Vedic authors with regard to the proper time of the morning oblations, see Weber's Indische Studien, X, 329.
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