Book Title: Grihya Sutras
Author(s): Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford

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________________ I ADHYAYA, 2 KHANDA, 2. 15 13. And 'invested with the sacrificial cord,' &c., all these rules, as far as they are applicable, should be applied (here also) in consequence of the unity of the ritual. 14. With regard to this they quote also (the following Sloka): 15. 'The kinds of Pâkayagñas, the kinds of Haviryagñas, and again the kinds of Soma sacrifices, 'Twenty-one by number, these are proclaimed to be the kinds of sacrifice.' KHANDA 2. I. At the end of the sacrificial acts (follows) the distribution of food to Brahmanas. 2. Voice, (pleasantness of) form, age, learning, moral character, (right) conduct are the qualities (required in the Brahmanas who are to be invited thereto). 13. Srauta-sûtra I, 1, 6. 7: yagñopavîtî devakarmâni karoti, prâkînâvîtî pitryâni, &c. The unity of the ritual of course means the unity of the two great domains of the Srauta and Grihya ritual. 15. With regard to the twenty-one kinds of sacrifice compare, for instance, Gautama VIII, 18-20; Max Müller, Z. D. M. G. IX, p. lxxiii; Weber, Indische Studien, X, 326. The seven kinds of Pâkayagñas are the Ashtakâ sacrifices (see below, III, 12 seq.), the sacrifices offered at each Parvan (I, 3), the Srâddha (or funeral) sacrifices (IV, I seq.), the sacrifice of the Srâvanî full moon (IV, 15), of the Agrahâyanî (IV, 17 seq.), of the Kaitrî (IV, 19), and of the Asvayugi (IV, 16). The seven Havis sacrifices (belonging, as is the case also with the third division of sacrifices, to the Srauta ritual) are the Agnyâdheya, the Agnihotra, the sacrifices of the full and new moon, the Âgrayana, the three Kâturmâsya sacrifices, the Nirudhapasubandha, and the Sautrâmanî. The seven kinds of Soma sacrifices (of which the more ancient texts mention only three or four samsthâs, see Weber, Indische Studien, IX, 120) are the Agnish/oma, the Atyagnish/oma, the Ukthya, the Shodasin, the Atirâtra, the Aptoryâma. Digitized by Google

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