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ÂSVALÂYANA-GRIHYA-SÛTRA.
ADHYAYA I, KANDIKA 1.
1. The (rites) based on the spreading (of the three sacred fires) have been declared; we shall declare the Grihya (rites).
2. There are three (kinds of) Pâkayagñas, the hutas, (i. e. the sacrifices) offered over the fire; over something that is not the fire, the prahutas; and at the feeding of Brahmanas, those offered in the Brahman.
3. And they quote also Rikas, 'He who with a piece of wood or with an oblation, or with knowledge ("veda").
1, 1. The spreading (vitâna or, as it is also called, vihâra or vistâra) of the sacred fires is the taking of two of the three sacrificial fires, the Âhavanîya fire and the Dakshinâgni, out of the Gârhapatya fire (see, for instance, Weber's Indische Studien, IX, 216 seq.). The rites based on, or connected with the vitâna, are the rites forming the subject of the Srauta ritual, which are to be performed with the three fires.
2. Comp. Sânkhâyana-Grihya I, 5, 1; I, 10, 7. The division here is somewhat different from that given by Sânkhâyana; what Sânkhâyana calls ahuta, is here prahuta ('sacrificed up'); the prahutas of Sankhâyana form here no special category; the prâsitas of Sânkhâyana are the brahmani hutâs of Asvalâyana. Thus Âsvalâyana has three categories, while Sânkhâyana (and quite in the same way Pâraskara I, 4, 1) gives four. Nârâyana mentions as an example of prahuta sacrifices the baliharan a prescribed below, I, 2, 3.
3. Rig-veda VIII, 19, 5, 'The mortal who with a piece of wood, or with an oblation, or with knowledge worships Agni, who with adoration (worships him) offering rich sacrifices,' &c.
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| SR No. | 007685 |
| Book Title | Grihya Sutras |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1886 |
| Total Pages | 2642 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 49 MB |