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I PRAPATHAKA, 6 KÂNDIKÂ, 14.
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favour among people. His offspring will be still more blessed.
4. Therefore (husband and wife) should eat fastday food which is pleasant to them.'
5. Let them sleep that night on the ground.
6. They should spend that night so as to alternate their sleep with waking, entertaining themselves with tales or with other discourse.
7. But they should avoid doing anything unholy (such as cohabiting together).
8. It is said, that when on a journey, he should not fast.
9. For (say they, in that case) the observance has to be kept by his wife.
10. Let him do (herein) what he likes.
11. In the same way also one who has set up the (Srauta) fires should fast
12. And (he should observe) what is enjoined by the sacred tradition.
13. Now in the forenoon, after the sacrificer) has offered his morning oblation, and has walked round the fire on its front side, and strewn to the south of the fire eastward-pointed Darbha grass
14. (The Brahman) stations himself to the east of that (grass), facing the west, and with the thumb and the fourth finger of his left hand he takes one grass blade from the Brahman's seat and throws it away to the south-west, in the intermediate direction (between south and west), with (the words), 'Away has been thrown the dispeller of wealth.'
4. Or, which is pleasant to him? See the note on $1. 7. Khâdira-Grihya II, 1, 7.
14. The ceremonies stated in this Satra have to be performed by the Brahman. This is stated in the commentary, and the com
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| SR No. | 007685 |
| Book Title | Grihya Sutras |
| 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 |