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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SÂNKHẤYANA-GRIHYA SOTRA.
cattle, at a frying-pan, or (at the fire of) one who offers many sacrifices.
9. Some say that (the fire should be fetched from one of the above-mentioned places) in the evening and in the morning.
10. The inauguration (of the fire) by an evening offering should be learnt from the Adhvaryus, according to (my) teacher.
11. In the morning he shall offer a full oblation with a verse sacred to Vishnu, or silently.
12. The time for setting it (i.e. the domestic fire) in a blaze and for sacrificing on it has been explained by (the rules given with regard to) the Agnihotra.
edition) differ as to whether in puru pasu-vi/kula one or two alternatives are contained, and it is interesting to see that the Sätra authors themselves differed in this respect; Paraskara (I, 2, 3), when declaring from what place the fire should be fetched, speaks of the house of a Vaisya rich in cattle; Âsvalâyana, on the contrary, who in the Grihya-sâtra does not expressly treat of the kindling of the domestic fire, in the corresponding passage of the Srauta-sätra (II, 2, 1), gives the rule that the dakshinagni is to be fetched from the house of a Vaisya or from a rich person.
9-11. I now differ from the opinion which I pronounced in my German edition with regard to the relation in which these three Sūtras stand to each other. I think they ought to be understood thus: o. Some teachers say that the fetching of the fire from its yoni, as taught in Sätra 8, ought to be done twice; in the evening, so that the fire, after the necessary rites have been performed, goes out, and then again in the morning. 10. But my (the author's) teacher (comp. as to a kâryâh, Kâtyâyana's Srauta-sútra I, 3, 7; Professor Garbe's note on Vaitâna-sätra I, 3) is of opinion that the fire should be fetched only once, and that with this fire the ceremonies which are taught by the Adhvaryus are to be performed in the evening (see, for instance, Kâty. IV, 7. 8, which passage is paraphrased here by Nârâyana). 11. In the morning (according to the same teacher, not, as I once understood this passage, according to the eke referred to in Sätra 9), a full oblation is to be offered, &c.
12. Srauta-sútra II, 6, 2 seq.
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