Grihya Sutras

SR No.: 007685
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

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I ADHYAYA, II KANDIKÂ, 12.
7. This is the Sâmitra (fire). 8. With the two Vapâsrapani ladles the 'performer' touches the animal.
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9. The sacrificer (touches) the performer.
10. To the west of the Sâmitra (fire) he (the Samitri) kills (the animal), the head of which is turned to the east or to the west, the feet to the north; and having placed a grass-blade on his side of the (animal's) navel, (the 'performer') draws out the omentum, cuts off the omentum, seizes it with the two Agnisrapants, sprinkles it with water, warms it at the Sâmitra (fire), takes it before that fire, roasts it, being seated to the south, goes round (the two fires), and sacrifices it.
11. At the same fire they cook a mess of food.
12. Having cut off the eleven Avadânas (or portions which have to be cut off) from the animal, from all its limbs, having boiled them at the Sâmitra (fire),
7. Comp. Sutra 2.
8. On the two Vapâsrapanîs, comp. Kâtyâyana-Srauta-sûtra VI, 5, 7; Indische Studien, X, 345. The act which is here attributed to the kartri ('performer'), belongs in the Srauta ritual to the incumbencies of the Pratiprasthâtri.
10. On the way in which animals had to be killed at sacrifices, see Weber's Indische Studien, IX, 222 seq.
On the position of the head and the feet of the victim, comp. Kâtyâyana-Srauta-sûtra VI, 5, 16. 17.
According to Kâtyâyana VI, 6, 8 seq. a grass-blade is placed on the dead animal's body before the navel (agrena nâbhim); through that grass-blade he cuts into the body and draws out the omentum.
'That fire' is, according to Nârâyana, not the Sâmitra but the Aupasana fire. In the same way in the Srauta ritual the warming of the omentum is performed at the Sâmitra, the boiling at the Ahavaniya fire. Kâtyâyana VI, 6, 13. 16.
11. The Aupasana fire is referred to.
12. The eleven portions are indicated by Kâtyâyana, Srauta-sûtra VI, 7, 6.
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