Grihya Sutras

Author(s): Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford

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I ADHYAYA, 9 KHANDA, IO.
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Sruva at its bottom with the right hand, with the words, The hand of Vishnu art thou '—
4. He offers with the Sruva the Âgya oblations. 5. Beginning from the north-west side of the fire he offers (the Agya) unintermittingly on the south side (of the fire) with (the verse), 'Thou Agni art full of foresight' (Rig-veda I, 31, 10).
6. Beginning from the south-west side of the fire he unintermittingly offers on the north side with (the verse), 'To whom these snowy mountains' (Rig-veda X, 121, 4).
7. To Agni belongs the northern Agya portion,
to Soma the southern.
8. In the middle (are made) the other oblations, 9. (With the words,) 'Agni is the begetter; may he give to me N. N. as my wife; svâhâ!
'Soma is rich in wives; may he make me rich in wives by N. N.; svâhâ!
'Pushan is rich in kindred; may he make me rich in kindred by the father, the mother, the brothers of N. N.; svâhâ!'
10. At the Âgya oblations the offering of the two Agya portions and of the Svishtakrit oblation is not standing,
4. As to the characteristics of Agya (sacrificial butter), which is the substance offered at most of the Grihya sacrifices, comp. the statements of the Grihya-samgraha-parisishta I, 105 seq.
5. Avikkhinnam (unintermittingly) is explained in Nâr.'s commentary by ekadhârayâ.
8 seq. Here are indicated the chief oblations of this sacrifice (anyâ âhutayah pradhânabhûtâh, Nâr.), or the âvâpa (the insertion, Sutra 12) which comes between the standing introductory and concluding oblations.
10. On Svish/akrit, comp. Weber, Indische Studien, IX, 217.
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