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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II PRAPATHAKA, I KÂNDIKÂ, 14. 43 9. And according to some (teachers) also, if (she takes) the mixed one.
10. After she has been washed with Klitaka, barley and beans, a friend should besprinkle her three times at her head, so that her whole body becomes wet, with Surâ of first quality, with (the formula), Kama! I know thy name. Intoxication thou art by name,' &c. (Mantra-Brâhmana I, 1, 2). (In the passage of the formula), ' Bring hither N. N.; he should pronounce the husband's name. (The Mantras should have the word Svâhâ at their end. With the two following verses he should wash her private parts.
II. That has to be done by (female) relatives (of the bride).
12. At the wedding wood has been put on the fire to the east of the house, on a surface besmeared (with cow-dung).
13. Then one of the people who assist at the wedding, fills a cup with 'firm' water, and having walked with the water-pot round the fire on its front side, silent, wrapped in his robe, he stations himself to the south (of the fire), facing the north.
14. Another person with a goad (walks in the same way and stations himself in the same place).
9. See Sätra 5.
10. With Klitaka,' &c., means, with water into which Klitaka, &c., has been thrown; comp. Grihya-samgraha II, 15. Surå of first quality' is Surâ prepared from molasses; see Grihya-samgraha II, 16. Comp., however, also Grihya-samgraha II, 41.
13. Khâdira-Grihya I, 3, 5; Grihya-samgraha II, 25. 26. Firm water' seems to be water which does not dry up. The Grihyasamgraha says: 'Water that has its smell, its colour, and its taste, which is in great rivers, in wells and other receptacles, and in ponds : such water is called “firm;" this is the fixed meaning.' Comp. Bloomfield's note, Z.D.M.G. XXXV, 574.
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