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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PÂRASKARA-GRIHYA-SOTRA.
32. They should intermit the standing rites, except those performed with the three (Srauta) fires,
33. And (with the exception of those performed) with the (sacred) domestic fire, according to some (teachers).
34. Others should perform (those rites for them).
35. Those who have touched the dead body should not enter the village until the stars appear.
36. If (they have touched it) in the night-time, (they should not enter) till sunrise.
37. The entering and what follows after it is the same (for these persons) as for the others.
38. (Their) impurity lasts through one or two fortnights.
39. The same (rites should be performed) when the teacher (has died),
40. Or the maternal grandfather or grandmother, 41. Or unmarried females.
42. For those who were married, the others should do it,
43. And they for the (others).
44. If one dies while being absent on a journey, (his relations) shall sit (on the ground, as prescribed for impure persons) from the time when they have heard (of his death), performing the water libation
37. The position of this Satra after 35, 36 seems to me to indicate that it refers to those who have touched the dead body; comp. Yâgñavalkya III, 14 : pravesanâdikam karma pretasamsparsinâm api. I believe that the same persons are concerned also in Sätra 38.
42. I.e. the husband and his relatives. Comp. Vasishtha IV, 19.
43. A married female should perform the rites for her husband and his relatives. See Professor Bühler's note on Vasishtha IV, 19; S. B. E., XIV, 28.
44. Yâgñavalkya III, 21; Manu V, 75, 76. Comp. Gautama XIV, 37; Vasishtha IV, 14.
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