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SANKHAYANA-GRIHYA-SUTRA.
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be performed) when (the father's) assent (to give away his daughter) has been declared
KHANDA 10.
1. Forms the standard for all sacrifices that procure happiness,
2. And for all Âgya offerings,
3. For the sacrifice of animals which are tied to a branch,
4. And for the offerings of boiled (rice) grains and of cooked food.
5. These are performed, all the offerings of cooked food, without PRAYAGA and ANUYAGA oblations, without (the invocation of) the ILA, without NIGADA recitation, and without SAMIDHENÎ verses.
6. There are also the following Slokas :
chap. 9, seems to me clearly to belong to the next chapter, and to contain the subject, to which the predicate is given in 10, 1. For pratisrute, see chap. 7, 1.
10, 1. 'As in the Srauta ritual the sacrifice of the full and new moon forms the standard for the ishis, the pasubandha, &c., thus the pratisrut-kalpa is the standard for the vikritis of the Smârta ritual, such as the gâtakarman (chap. 24), &c.' Nârâyana.
3. It is the standard of the sacrifices prescribed in the rules, "The animal (offered) to the teacher is sacred to Agni; to an officiating priest, to Brihaspati, &c." Nârâyana. This refers to the sacrifice of animals which forms part of the Arghya ceremony; see II, 15, 4 seq.
4. Karunâm pâkayagñânâm ka. Nârâyana.
5. On the five Prayâgas and the three Anuyâgas (introductory oblations and oblations following on the principal offerings) prescribed in the Srauta ritual, comp. Hillebrandt's Neu- und Vollmondsopfer, pp. 94 seq., 134 seq. On the Ilâ, see ibid., 122 seq.; on nigada, Weber's Ind. Studien, IX, 217, &c. ; on the Sâmidheni verses, Hillebrandt, loc. cit., pp. 74 seq. On this Sûtra compare also the passage in Kâtyâyana's Srauta-sûtra, VI, 10, 22 seq.
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