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GRIHYA-SOTRA OF GOBHILA.
KÂNDIKÂ 4. 1. A student, after he has studied the Veda,
2. And has offered a present to his Guru (i. e. to his) teacher,
3. Should, with the permission (of his parents), take a wife,
4. One who does not belong to the same Gotra,
5. And who is not a Sapinda relation of his mother.
6. The best, however, is a 'naked girl.
7. Now the bath (which is taken at the end of studentship, will be described).
8. To the north or the east of the teacher's house there is an enclosure.
9. There the teacher sits down, facing the north, on eastward-pointed Darbha grass ;
4,1 seq. The description given in this chapter of the Samâvartana, or of the ceremony performed at the end of studentship, is opened with a few sentences referring to another section of the Grihya ritual, namely, to marriage. It seems to me that these first Satras of this chapter once formed, in a text from which Gobhila has taken them, the introduction to an exposition of the wedding ceremonies, and that Gobhila was induced to transfer them to the description of the Samkvartana, by their opening words, 'A student, after he has studied the Veda, &c.' With Satras 1-3, comp. Khâdira-Grihya I, 3, I.
3. I prefer to supply, (with the permission) of his parents, and not, of his teacher. Hiranyakesin says, samavritta âkâryakulát matapitarau bibhriyât, tábhyam anugñato bhâryâm upayakkhet.
5. Regarding the term Sapinda, see, for instance, Gautama XIV, 13 (S. B. E. II, 247): 'Sapinda-relationship ceases with the fifth or the seventh (ancestor).' Comp. Manu V, 60.
6. According to the Grihya-samgraha (II, 17. 18), a 'naked girl is one who has not yet the monthly period, or whose breast is not yet developed. Comp. Vasishtha XVII, 70; Gautama XVIII, 23.
7 seqq. Comp. Khâdira-Grihya III, 1, 1 seqq.
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