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GRIHYA-SÛTRA OF GOBHILA.
4. And (the Bârhaspatya Sâman, with the text), Soma, the king, Varuna' (Sâma-veda I, 91).
5. After they have recited (the first verses) of the Khandas book, from its beginning, they may do what they like.
6. They eat fried barley-grains with (the verse), “That which is accompanied by grains and by a karambha (i. e. curds with flour)' (Sâma-veda I, 210).
7. They partake of curds with (the verse), 'I have praised Dadhikrâvan' (Sâma-veda I, 358).
8. After they have sipped water, (the teacher) should cause them to repeat the first (?) verses, and to sing the first (?) Sâmans, of the different sections (?):
9. On the day sacred to Savitri they wait. 10. And at (the beginning of) the northerly
5. The Khandas book is the first Sâmavedarkika in which the verses are arranged according to their metre.
6. It is not quite clear from the text, in what connection the rites described in Sūtras 6-8 stand with those treated of in the preceding Sätras. The expression yathârtham used in Sätra 5 yathârtham iti karmanah parisamâptir ukyate,' Comm.; comp. above, I, 3, 12 note) clearly indicates the close of the ceremony ; on the other hand the comparison of Pâraskara II, 10, 15 seq., Sânkhayana IV, 5, 10 seq., Asvalâyana III, 5, 10, seems to show that the acts stated in Sätras 6-8 form part of the ceremony described before.
8, I do not try to translate this very obscure Sätra according to the commentary, in which khândika is explained as 'the number (of pupils).' Perhaps the word is a misspelling for kandikâ or the like, and means sections of the texts. Comp. Khâdira-Grihya III, 2, 23. The construction (âkântodakâh ... kârayet) is quite irregular.
9. I.e. they do not continue their study. The day sacred to Savitri is the day under the constellation of Hasta, mentioned in Sätra I, for Savitri is the presiding deity over that Nakshatra (comp. Sankhayana I, 26,11).
10. Comp. the note on Satra 16.
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