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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GRIHYA-SOTRA OF GOBHILA.
KÂNDIKÂ 2. 1. For the Mahânâmni verses (the Vrata is to be kept) twelve years,
2. (Or) nine, six, three (years). 3. These are the various possibilities. 4. Or also one year, according to some (teachers).
5. (In this case), however, the observances are enhanced.
6. (Keeping the Vrata through one year is allowed only) if (the student's) ancestors have learnt the Mahânâmni verses.
7. There is also a Brâhmana of the Rauruki (Sâkhâ, in which it is said) :
8. "The mothers forsooth say to their sons, when they suckle them :
9. ““Become men, my little sons, who endeavour to accomplish the Sakvarf-vrata!”'
10. During (the Vrata preparatory to the study of) these (i. e. the Mahânâmni verses), touching water at the time of each Savana (is prescribed).
11. Let him not eat in the morning before he has touched water.
12. In the evening, after he has touched water, he should not eat, before he has put the piece of wood on the fire.
2, 1. Regarding the Mahânâmnî or Sakvarî verses and the observances connected with their study, comp. Sânkhâyana II, 12 (see especially the note on II, 12, 13) and the sixth Adhyâya of that text. Khâdira-Grihya II, 5, 22 seq.
10. The rules as to 'touching water' have been given above, 1, 2, 5 seq. The three Savanas or Soma-pressings of which the Soma sacrifice consists, are the prâtah-savana, the mâdhyandinasavana, and the tritîya-savana, i. e. the morning Savana, the midday Savana, and the third or evening Savana.
12. Comp. above, II, 10, 46; III, 1, 27.
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