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

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________________ SANKHAYANA-GRIHYA-SUTRA. 12. Once, turning his left side to it, in the rites belonging to the Manes. 24 KHANDA 8. 1. Now (follows) the strewing (of grass) around (the fire). 2. He strews eastward-pointed Kusa grass around it, in three layers or in five layers, 3. Beginning on the east side, then to the west, then to the west. 4. He covers the roots (of the grass-blades) with the points. 5. And all kinds of rites are to be performed beginning south, ending north. 6. He places the Brahman south with the words, BHUR BHUVAH SVAH, 7. Adorns him with flowers, 8. Carries forward on the north side the Pranitâ waters with the words, 'Who carries ye forward?'— 9. Takes up with the left hand the Kusa blades, and arranges them (on the ground) with the right hand, 8, 1. Comp. the passages quoted in Professor Eggeling's note on Satapatha Br. I, 1, 1, 22. 6. Ordinarily there was no real Brahman present, and his place was filled by a bundle of Kusa grass that represented him. Nârâyana states that this bundle should consist of fifty blades of Kusa grass. Comp. also the Grihya-samgraha-parisish/a I, 89-90. 8. Comp. the passages quoted by Dr. Bloomfield, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländ. Gesellschaft, vol. xxxv, p. 565, note 2. 9. This Sûtra shows that the paristarana, though already treated of in Sûtras 1-4, is not to be performed till after the 'carrying forward' of the Pranîtâ water. Comp. Nârâyana's note on Sûtra I (p. 123 of the German edition). That this is indeed the order of the different acts is confirmed by Pâraskara I, 1, 2. Digitized by Google

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