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SUTRAS CXXXV-CXXXIX.
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original vrihi. Further, if a choice has been allowed between vrihi, rice, and yava, barley, and vrîhi has been chosen, and afterwards, as substitute for vrihi, nivara, then, if nivåra come to an end, and in the absence of vrihi, when a new supply of both nivåra and yava has been obtained, the yava is to be avoided, and the original substitute for vrihi, the nivåra, must be retained. In most of these cases, however, a certain penance also (prayaskitta) is required.
SOTRA CXXXVII. If something is wanting in the measure, let him finish with the rest.
Commentary. If it is said that a purodása should be as large as a horse's hoof, and there is not quite so much left, yet whatever is left should be used to finish the offering,
SOTRA CXXXVIII. Substitution does not apply to the master, the altar-fire, the deity, the word, the act, and a prohibition.
Commentary. The master is meant for the sacrificer himself and his wife. Their place cannot, of course, be taken by anybody else. The altar-fire is supposed to have a supernatural power, and cannot be replaced by any other fire. Nothing can take the place of the invoked deities, nor of the words used in the mantras addressed to them, nor can the sacrifice itself be replaced by any other act. Lastly, when it is said that mashas, varakas, kodravas are not fit for sacrifice, or that a man ought not to sacrifice with what should not be eaten by Aryas, nothing else can be substituted for what is thus prohibited.
SOTRA CXXXIX. The Prakriti stops from three causes, from a corollary, from a prohibition, and from loss of purpose.
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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 |