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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INTRODUCTION
TO THE
KHÂDIRA-GRIHYA-SÚTRA.
AMONG the Grantha MSS. collected by the late Dr. Burnell and now belonging to the India Office Library, there are some MSS. (numbers CLXXII and following of the Catalogue) of a Grihya-satra hitherto unpublished, which is ascribed to Khàdiråkårya. It belongs to the Dráhyâyana school of the Sâma-veda, which prevails in the south of the Indian peninsula', and it is based on the Gobhilîya-sätra, from which it has taken the greater number of its aphorisms, just as the Drahyâyana-Srautasatra, as far as we can judge at present, is nothing but a slightly altered redaction of Latyayana?. Like the GobhilaGrihya it very seldom gives the Mantras in their full extent, but quotes them only with their Pratîkas, and it is easy to identify these quotations in the Mantrabrahmana (published at Calcutta, 1873), which contains the texts prescribed by Gobhila for the Grihya ceremonies.
The Khâdira-Grihya has evidently been composed with the intention of abridging Gobhila's very detailed and somewhat lengthy treatise on the domestic rites. Digressions, such as, for instance, that introduced by the words
tatraihad a huh, Gobhila I, 2, 10–27, or such as Gobhila's · explication of the terms paurnamå si and amavasya,
I, 5, 7 seqq., or most of the regulations concerning the Sakvaryas, III, 3, or the Slokas, IV, 7, are invariably left
1 See Dr. Burnell's Catalogue, p. 56. · Weber, Vorlesungen über indische Literaturgeschichte (and edition), p. 87: Almost the entire difference between this Satra and that of Latyayana lies in the arrangement of the matter treated of, which is in itself very nearly the same in both texts, and is expressed in the same words.' Comp. Ânandakandra Vedantavägisa's Introduction to his edition of Latyayana (in the Bibliotheca Indica), pp. 2, 3, and his statements on Drâhyâyana in the notes of that edition.
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