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GRIHYA-SUTRA OF HIRANYAKESIN.
Soma thereon bestow splendour, Agni, Indra, Brihaspati, and I sâna. Svâhà !'
2. Now (follows) the way for appeasing anger.
3. He addresses the angry person with (the verses), “The power of wrath that dwells here on thy forehead, destroying thy enemy (?), may the chaste, wise gods take that away
If thou shootest, as it were, the thought dwelling in thy face, upwards to thy forehead, I loosen the anger of thy heart like the bow-string of an archer.
Day, heaven, and earth : we appease thy anger, as the womb of a she-mule (cannot conceive).'
4. Now (follows) the way for obtaining the victory in disputes.
5. He puts wood on the fire at night-time in an inner apartment, performs the rites down to the Vyâhriti oblations, and sacrifices small grains mixed with Âgya, with (the verse), · Tongueless one, thou who art without a tongue! I drive thee away through my sacrifice, so that I may gain the victory in the dispute, and that N. N. may be defeated by me. Svâhâ !'
6. Then in the presence (of his adversary), turned towards him, he murmurs (the verses), 'I take away the speech from thy mouth, (the speech) that dwells in thy mind, (the speech) from thy heart. Out of every limb I take thy speech. Wheresoever thy speech dwells, thence I take it away.
3. Paraskara III, 13, 5. Possibly we ought to correct mrid. dhasya into mridhrasya. Avadyâm ought to be ava gyâm; see Atharva-veda VI, 42, 1.
5. The commentary explains kanâs (small grains) as oleander (karavîra) seeds.
6. Comp. Pâraskara III, 13, 6. The text of the Mantras is corrupt.
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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 |