Sambodhi 1996 Vol 20

Author(s): Jitendra B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

Page 60

M. SRIMANNARAYANA MURTI
SAMBODHI
nişadasthapatir gāvedhuke 'dhikrtah, KśS. 1.1.12. 21. F. Max Müller, Āpastamba's Yajñaparibhāṣā-sütras (Eng. tr.), in: SBE.30, pt.2 (1973,
Ist edn. 1892), p.317; laukike, bhūmau pasupurodāśaśrapanam, apsv avadanahomah,
KSS. 1.1.14-16. 22. ibid. p.315. 23. Srautakośa, English section, Poona, Vaidika Samsodhana Mandala, pt. 1 (1958), p.
8f.; pt. 2 (1962), p.967, pp. 976-977.
24. The institution of marriage began taking definite shapes and several conventions
came to be observed already by the time of the Atharvaveda. For example the sons and daughters are to be married in the order of their age. If a man or a woman marries before the marriage of his elder brother or her elder sister it was considered to be inauspicious. The Atharvaveda, 2.30 gives several charms to avert evil caused by breaking the order. Further the person who accepts to serve as an officiating priest in such disorderly marriages is condemned and sometimes he is expelled from functioning as officiating priest elsewhere. The father of such children are also considered inferior.
25. Cf. Ardho ha vä esa ātmano yaj jāya tasmad yāvaj jāyan na vindate naiva tavat
prajñāyate 'sarvo hi tõvad bhavati. Atha yadaiva jāyām vindate 'tha prajāyate tarhi hi sarvo bhavati, ŚB. 5.2.1.10. See also: niviste mrtā patni nastā vāgnihotram juhoti ... apatni-kasyadhānam ... kurvanti .... sraddhā patni...., Aitareya-Brāhmaṇa, 7.10. M. Srimannarayana Murti, 'Position and status of Women in the age of the Liturgical Samhitas, Brahmanas and Upanisads' in : L. K. Tripathi (Ed.), Position and Status of Women in Ancient India Varanasi, Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Banaras Hindu University, 1988, vol. 1, p.26.
26. For example, if the sacrificer's wife is beyond the boundary of the village during
the sunrise and sunset in the Agnihotra offerings Baudhāyana prescribes renewal of the sacred fires : Atha yadi patni bahih sünām punarādhānam, BśS. 29.12; srautakośa (Eng. sec.), p. 196.
27. For example if the sacred fires are spread out by the sacrificer's wife, Baudhāyana
[27.11) prescribes : "If it was done consciously, one should consign the sacred fires into the kindling woods. He should move away from that spot, churn out the fire, and then spread out the fires. He should (first) offer purnāhuti and then offer, to tāntunant Agni, a cake on eight potslerds. If it was done unconsciously, he should spread out the fires with the vyährtis, offer pūrnāluti, and then offer to tantumant