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II KANDA, 12 KANDIKA, 4.
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10. After having studied five months and a half, they should celebrate the Utsarga,
II. Or six months and a half.
12. They then mutter this Rik: 'Ye two young sages! The relation which has expired among us, the friendship we dissolve, (turning away) from the condition of friendship.'
13. After having remained together through a period of three nights, they separate.
KANDIKA 12.
1. In (the month) Pausha, under (the Nakshatra) Rohini, or at the middle Ashtakâ let them celebrate the conclusion of the study (of the Veda).
2. Let them go to the brink of water and make water oblations to the gods, the metres, the Vedas, the Rishis, the ancient teachers, the Gandharvas, the other teachers, the year with its divisions, and to their own ancestors and teachers.
3. After having four times quickly recited the Sâvitri, they should say, 'We have finished.'
4. Interruption (of the study) and (continuation of the) teaching as stated above.
12. The reading of the Mantra is doubtful. I think it should stand as Professor Stenzler has printed it, except that I should propose to correct yuvâ into yuvânâ (comp. Asvalâyana-Srauta VI, 12, 12). It is probable that the gods addressed are the two Asvins, who are called kavf and yuvânâ in several passages of the Vedas.
12, 1. See Âsvalâyana-Grihya III, 5, 20; Sânkhâyana-Grihya IV, 6. On the three Ashtakâs, see below, III, 3, 1.
4. Sankhâyana-Grihya IV, 5, 17, where the same expression kshapana for interruptions of the study is used. The words 'as above' refer to chap. 10, 23. 24.
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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 |