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SÂNKHẤYANA-GRIHYA-SOTRA.
5. 'A student art thou. Put on fuel. Eat water. Do the service. Do not sleep in the day-time. Keep silence till the putting on of fuel.'
6. With (the words), 'Thine, Agni, is this piece of wood,' he puts the fuel on (the fire), or silently.
KHANDA 5. 1. After one year (the teacher) recites the Savitri (to the student),
2. (Or) after three nights, 3. Or immediately. 4. Let him recite a Gâyatri to a Brahmana, 5. A Trishtubh to a Kshatriya, 6. A Gagatî to a Vaisya. 7. But let it be anyhow a verse sacred to Savitar. 8. They seat themselves to the north of the fire,
9. The teacher with his face turned eastward, the other westward.
5. According to Nârâyana the student correspondingly answers, to the teacher's word, A student art thou,' 'I will' (a sâni), to 'Put on fuel,''I will put it on,' &c. Eating water means sipping water after having eased oneself. On the putting on of fuel, comp. Sätra 6 and chap. 1o. The whole formula given in this Sätra is already found in the Satapatha Brâhmana XI, 5, 4, 5.
5, 1. The study of the Veda is opened by the Sâvitrî. Comp. Satapatha Brâhmana, loc. cit., $$ 6 seq.
4-6. The Gayatrî which the teacher shall recite to a Brâhmana is the same verse of which it is said below, chap. 7, 11, that it belongs to Visvâmitra (Rig-veda III, 62, 10); the Trish/ubh which is taught to the Kshatriya is a verse ascribed to Hiranyastūpa, Rig-veda I, 35, 2; the Gagatî which is to be repeated to a Vaisya is Rig-veda IV, 40, 5, belonging to Vâmadeva, or Rig-veda I, 35, 9, belonging to Hiranyastûpa. See the note on chap. 7, 1o.
9. The same position is prescribed, in the same words, for the study of the main part of the Veda, below, chap. 7, 3; during
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