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GRIHYA-SUTRA OF GOBHILA.
15. Having touched water, he then sits down on the Brahman's seat, with (the words), 'I sit down on the seat of wealth.'
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16. Facing the fire he sits silently, raising his joined hands, till the end of the ceremony.
17. Let him speak (only) what refers to the due performance of the sacrifice.
18. Let him not speak what is unworthy of the sacrifice.
19. If he has spoken what is unworthy of the sacrifice, let him murmur a verse, or a Yagus, sacred to Vishnu.
20. Or let him only say, 'Adoration to Vishnu!' 21. If one wishes, however, to do himself the work both of the Hotri and of the Brahman, he should in the same way place on the Brahman's seat a parasol, or an outer garment, or a water-pot, or a
parison of parallel texts leaves no doubt as to the correctness of this view. Thus Hiranyakesin says (I, 1): etasmin kâle brahmâ yagnopavîtam kritvâpa âkamyâparenâgnim dakshinâtikramya brahmasadanât trinam nirasya, &c. Comp. also the corresponding passages of the Srauta ritual given by Hillebrandt, Neu- und Vollmondsopfer, p. 17. I do not think it probable, however, that we should read brahmâ sanât, so that it would be distinctly expressed by the text that the Brahman is the subject (comp. Dr. Knauer's Introduction, p. viii). For we read in this same Sutra brahmâsanât trinam abhisamgrihya; in Sûtra 15, brahmâsana upavisati; in Sutra 21, brahmâsane nidhâya: of these passages it is in the second made probable by the sense, and it is certain in the third, that brahmâsana is to be understood as a compound equal to brahmasadana. Thus it would, in my opinion, be unnatural not to explain it in the same way also in the first passage. Parâvasu is opposed to Vasu (Sutra 15) in the same way as some texts, for instance Âpastamba, oppose Parâgvasu to Arvâgvasu.
16 seqq. Khâdira-Grthya I, 1, 19 seqq.
21. In the same way' refers to the ceremonies stated in Sûtras
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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 |