Grihya Sutras

Author(s): Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford

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SÂNKHẤYANA-GRIHIYA-SÛTRA.
[sic]- Mândûkeyâh Suyagña- Sâmkhyâyana- Gâtukarnyeyåh [sic] Paimga [sic]- Sâmbavy'-Aitareyah.
The same Grihya still more explicitly bears witness to the name of Suyagia Sânkhâyana, by adding at the end of the list from which these names are quoted the following words: Suyagña Sakhâyanas [sic] trispyaltu, i. e. 'May Suyagia Sânkhâyana satiate himself (with the water offering).'
In the Åsvalayana-Grihya III, 4, we read:
Kaholam Kaushitakam Mahâkaushîtakam Paingyam Mahâpaingyam Suyag nam Sankh â yanam Aitareyam Mahaitareyam.
We may also quote here a Kårikå given by Narayana ? in his great commentary on the Sankhayana-Grihya (1, 1, 10):
Atrâranipradânam yad adhvaryuh kurute kvakit? matam tan na Suyaginasya, mathitam so 'tra nekkhati.
It would perhaps be hazardous to claim for the author of this Kârikâ the authority of an independent witness, for very likely he may have derived his knowledge from the lists of teachers which we have quoted before. But at all events the concordance of the three Grihya texts furnishes a proof which, I think, cannot be set aside by another testimony which we must mention now. At the end of the Kaushitaki-Åranyaka (Adhyâya 15) we find a Vamsa or list of the teachers by whom the knowledge contained in that Åranyaka is supposed to have been handed down. The opening words of this list run thus:
'Om! Now follows the Vamsa. Adoration to the Brahman! Adoration to the teachers! We have learnt (this text) from Gunâkhya Sankh â yana, Gunâkhya Sân khâ yana from Kahola Kaushîtaki, Kahola Kaushitaki from Uddâlaka Åruni, &c.'
It is a very natural supposition that the author of this list intended to begin with the name of the Doctor eponymus, if we may say so, of the Sûtras of his school, and then to proceed to name the Doctor eponymus of the Brahmanas, and after him the more ancient teachers and
1 Manuscr. Chambers 712 (Berlin Royal Library), fol. 12 b. * Comp. Pâraskara-Grihya I, 2, 5: aranipradanam eke.
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