Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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ÂPASTAMBA.
of a ceremony is prescribed, the expressions yathoktam, as has been stated,' yathopadesam, 'according to the injunction,' or yatha purastât, as above,' are added. In four of these passages, Dh. I, 1, 4, 16; II, 2, 3, 17; 2, 5, 4; and 7, 17, 16, the Grihya-sútra is doubtlessly referred to, and the commentator Haradatta has pointed out this fact. On the other hand, the Grihya-sútra refers to the Dharma-sútra, employing the same expressions which have been quoted from the latter. Thus we read in the beginning of the chapter on funeral oblations, Grihya-satra VIII, 21, I, masisraddhasyâ parapakshe yathopadesam kâlâh, 'the times for the monthly funeral sacrifice (fall) in the latter (dark) half of the month according to the injunction.' Now as neither the Grihya-sūtra itself nor any preceding portion of the Kalpa-sútra contains any injunction on this point, it follows that the long passage on this subject which occurs in the Dharma-sútra II, 7, 16, 4-22 is referred to. The expression yathopadesam is also found in other passages of the Grihya-sútra, and must be explained there in a like manner. There are further a certain number of Satras which occur in the same words both in the Prasna on domestic rites, and in that on the sacred law, e.g. Dh. I, I, 1, 18; I, 1, 2, 38; I, I, 4, 14. It seems that the author wished to call special attention to these rules by repeating them. Their recurrence and literal agreement may be considered an additional proof of the intimate connection of the two sections.
Through a similar repetition of, at least, one Satra it is possible to trace the connection of the Dharma-sútra with the Srauta-sútra. The rule ritve vå gâyâm, or (he may have conjugal intercourse) with his wife in the proper season,' is given, Dh. II, 2, 5, 17, with reference to a householder who teaches the Veda. In the Srauta-sutra it occurs twice, in the sections on the new and full moon sacrifices III, 17, 8, and again in connection with the Katurmâsya offerings, VIII, 4, 6, and it refers both times
See the details, given by Dr. Winternitz in his essay, Das altindische Hochzeitsrituell, p. 5 (Denkschr. Wiener Akademie, Bd. 40).
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