Sankhayana-grihya-sutra
by Hermann Oldenberg | 1886 | 37,785 words
The Grihya-sutra ascribed to Shankhayana, which has been edited and translated into German in the XVth volume of the "Indische Studien", is based on the first of the four Vedas, the Rig-veda in the Bashkala recension, and among the Brahmana texts, on the Kaushitaka. Alternative titles: Śāṅkhāyana-gṛhya-sūtra (शाङ्खायन-गृह्य-सूत्र), Shank...
Adhyāya V, Khaṇḍa 10
1. If the bees make honey in his house,
2. Let him fast and sacrifice a hundred and eight pieces of Udumbara wood, which are besmeared with curds, honey, and ghee, with the two (verses), 'No (harm) to us in our offspring' (Rig-veda I, 114, 8. 9).
3[1]. And let him murmur the hymn, 'For welfare may Indra and Agni' (Rig-veda VII, 35); and (the same hymn should be used) at all (ceremonies), such as that of the sacrifice after assent has been declared (see above, I, 7, 1).
4[2]. After he has sacrificed seventeen one span long pieces of Palāśa wood, he then seizes the Sruva.
5. Fifteen at the full and new moon sacrifices.
6[3]. At the Aṣṭakā ceremony in the middle of the rainy season there may optionally be three (pieces of wood); the sacrifice as at the Pitṛyajña.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
10, 3. This is a supplementary rule belonging to the exposition of the general type of sacrifice. On the 'Pratiśruta' sacrifice, see I, 7, seqq.; I, 9, 19.
[2]:
See I, 9, 1. 3.
[3]:
Comp. III, 13, 1 with the note.