Grihya Sutras

SR No.: 007685
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1886
Total Pages: 2642
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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IV ADHYAYA, 9 KHANDA, 3.
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3. 'Agni may satiate himself; Vayu may satiate himself; Sürya may satiate himself; Vishnu may satiate himself; Pragậpati may satiate himself; Virgpâksha may satiate himself; Sahasraksha may satiate himself; Soma, Brahman, the Vedas, the gods, the Rishis, and all the metres, the word Om, the word VASHAT, the Mahâvyâhritis, the Sâvitri, the sacrifices, heaven and earth, the Nakshatras, the air, days and nights, the numbers, the twilights, the oceans, the rivers, the mountains, fields, herbs, trees, Gandharvas and Apsaras, the serpents, the birds, the Siddhas, the Sâdhyas, the Vipras, the Yakshas, the Rakshas, the beings that have these (Rakshas, &c.) at their end, may satiate themselves.
'I satiate the Sruti; I satiate the Smriti; I satiate the firmness; I satiate the delight; I satiate
veda dhyayana. The same can be said of Âsvalâyana, who also by the position which he assigns to the tarpana sections (III, 4) brings it into a similar connection with the vedadhyayana (see Narayana's commentary on Asv., loc. cit.). We may also refer to the treatise about the study of the Aranyaka, which is appended to the Sânkhayana-Grihya as its sixth book; there the tarpana is mentioned quite in the same connection (VI, 6, 10 seq.). I believe, therefore, that in our text, chapters 9 and 10 have found their place here as a sort of supplementary addition to chap. 6, 6, just as in the first book the list of Nakshatras seems likewise appended to the Sätra I, 25, 5.
According to Narayana, snâtah in the first Satra would refer to the bath which forms part of the Samâvartana ceremony (see III, 1, 1), so that it would be the Grihastha, who has taken the Samavartana bath, to whom the following rules refer.
3. Comp. the similar lists of Âsvalâyana, Grihya III, 4; Sâmbavya, quoted in my German edition of Sankhâyana, p. 153; and Baudhấyana II, 9 (S. B. E., vol. xiv, pp. 252 seq.). The last seems to be the most modern.
It should be observed that the section of the list contained in this Satra, as well as that given below, chap. 10, 3, is divided into
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