Grihya Sutras

Author(s): Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford

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SÂNKHAYANA-GRIHYA-SÚTRA.
fried grain, fruits, barley, and gold, and let them recite (the formula), Undisturbed art thou, the undisturbable vigour of the gods, not cursed, protecting against a curse, unexposed to a curse. Might I straightway attain to truth. Put me into prosperity.'
6. With the verse, Offspring may produce us' (Rig-veda X, 85, 43), the Âkarya of the girl's (family), standing up, places (the vessel) on her head (saying), 'Offspring I put into thee, cattle I put into thee, splendour and holy lustre I put into thee.'
KHANDA 7. 1. When assent has been declared (by the girl's father, the bridegroom) sacrifices.
2. He besmears a quadrangular space with cowdung.
3. (Let him consider in the ceremonies to be performed,) of the two eastern intermediate directions, the southern one as that to which (the rites) should be directed, if the rites belong to the Manes,
6. The position of the words as well as the sense favours combining the genitive kanyâyâh with â kâryah, not with mûrdhani, though Râmakandra says that the varapakshâkârya is to be understood.
7, I seg. Here follows a description of the sacrifice which is to be performed when the girl's father has declared his assent (pratisrute) to give her away in marriage: this is the general model for all Grihya sacrifices.—'Varo guhoti,' Nârâyana.
3. 'He here states an exception to the rule, “The ceremonies sacred to the Manes are directed towards the south" (Srauta-sútra I, 1, 14).... He should consider the south-eastern direction, sacred to Agni, as that to which the ceremonies are to be directed (prâkim parvam kalpayet) which are sacred to the Manes, such as
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