30. When he has thus been besprinkled, (he should repeat the verse), ‘May (the Visve devds) anoint (or, unite)’ (MB. I, 2, 9).
31. He should seize her right hand, together with the thumb, with the six (verses), ‘I seize thy hand’ (MB. I, 2, 10 seqq.).
Kuawopa 4.
1. He should carry her away in a north-eastern direction.
2. In a Brahmama’s house he should establish the (nuptial) fire, should spread out to the west of the fire a red bull’s hide with the hair outside and with the neck to the east, and should make her, who has to keep silence, sit down (thereon).
3. When (somebody) has said that a star has appeared, he should, while she touches him, make oblations (of Agya) with the Sruva, picking out (portions of it), with the six (verses) commencing with (the verse), ‘In the lines’ (MB. I, 3, 1 seqq.). The remnants he should pour out over the bride’s head.
4. Having circumambulated the fire so that their right sides are turned towards it, he shows her the polar star (literally, the firm one), with the verse, ‘Firm is the sky’ (1. 1. 7).
5. She should break her silence by respectfully calling her Gurus by their Gotra names.
6. A cow constitutes the sacrificial fee.
7. Here the Arghya ceremony should be performed.
8. (Or rather it should be performed) when they have come (to their house), according to some (teachers) : [comp. Sankh. I, 12, 10.]
9. Through a period of three nights they should avoid eating saline. food and drinking milk, and should sleep together without having conjugal intercourse.
10. Having murmured over food which is fit for sacrifice, the (verses), ‘ With the tie of food’ (MB. I, 3, 8-10), he should pronounce the wife’s name, ‘N. NL!’
11. After he has sacrificed (or, eaten ?) he should give the rest to the wife.
12. After the lapse of that period of three nights, he should make oblations of Agya with the four
verses, ‘Agni, thou art expiation’ (MB. I, 4, 1 seqq.). A fifth (oblation) combining (the names of the four gods invoked in those verses). The remnants (of
Agya) he should pour into a water-pot. .
13. With that (Agya) he should wash her, including her hair and nails.
14. Thenceforward he should behave as required by circumstances.
15. At the time of her courses he should touch with his right hand her secret parts with (the verse), ‘May Vishzu make thy womb ready’ (MB. I, 4, 6).
16. When (that verse) is finished, he should cohabit with her, with (the verse), ‘Give conception’
(1. 7).
Kuanpa 5,
1. The fire used at his wedding (is kept as) his (sacred) domestic fire.
2. Or that on which he (as a student) puts the last piece of wood.
3. Or (a fire) kindled by attrition: that is pure, but it does not bring prosperity.
4. Or he may get it from a frying-pan.
5. Or from the house of one who offers many sacrifices, with the exception of a Sfdra.
31. The gods to whom the Bali offerings belong, are, the Earth, Vayu, Pragdpati, the Visve dev4s, the Waters, the Herbs and Trees, the Ether, Kama or Manyu, the hosts of Rakshas, the Fathers, Rudra.
32. He should do so silently.
33. He should do so (i.e. offer Balis) of all food.
34. If for one meal the food gets ready at different times, he should do so only once.
35. If (food is prepared) at different places, (he should take) that which belongs to the householder.
36. Of all food he should offer (something) in the fire, and give the due portion to a Brahmaza; he should do so himself.
37. From the rice(-harvest) till the barley(-harvest), or from the barley(-harvest) till the rice(-harvest) he should offer (the Balis) himself. He should offer (the Balis) himself.
End of the First Padala.
37. From the rice(-harvest) till the barley(-harvest), or from the barley(-harvest) till the rice(-harvest) he should offer (the Balis) himself. He should offer (the Balis) himself.
End of the First Padala.
31. Prithivt Vayu4 Prag4patir Visve deva Apa Oshadhivanaspataya Akésak Kamo Manyur va Rakshogandh Pitaro Rudra iti balidaivatani. 32. tishvim tu kuryAt. 33. sarvasya tv annasyaitat kuryad. 34. asakrzk fed ekasmin kdle siddhe sakrid eva kuryad. 35. bahudha fed yad grrhapateh. 36. sarvasya tv annasyagnau kritvigram brahmanaya dadyat ; svayam kury&d. 37. vrthiprabhrzty 4 yavebhyo yavebhyo va=vrihibhya svayam haret svayam haret. prathamapadalah.
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Parata II, Kuawpa 1,
1, Of the sacrifices of the new and full moon, the full-moon sacrifice should be performed first.
2. If (the term for the sacrifice) of the new moon comes first, he should first celebrate the full-moon sacrifice and then perform that.
3. Some say that he should not perform it, and wait till the day of the full moon.
4. In the afternoon, husband and wife, after having bathed, should eat fast-day food.
5. M&nadantavya has said: ‘He who eats fastday food, obtains offspring better than himself; he gains favour; hunger will not attack him.’
6. Therefore one should eat (fast-day food) which he likes.
7. He should do nothing unholy (such as cohabiting with his wife).
8. After he has sacrificed the morning oblation,
9. He should pour out the sacrificial food with (the formula), ‘ Agreeable to such and such (a deity) I pour thee out:’ (this formula) referring to the
II, 1, 1. paurrzamfsopakramau darsapaurzamasau. 2. darsam ket pfirvam upapadyeta paurmamasenesh/vatha tat kuryad. 3. akurvan paurzamasim 4kankshed ity eke. 4. »paraéhne sn4tvaupavasathikam dampatt bhuf#gtyatam. 5. M4nadantavya uvafa: sreyasim pragim vindate kamyo bhavaty akshodhuko ya aupavasathikam bhunkte. 6. tasmad yat kamayeta tad bhufgita. 7. n&vratyam fkaret. 8. pratarahutim hutva 9g. havir nirvaped amushmai tv gush/am nirvapAmiti devatasrayam sakrid yagur va dvis tishzim.
II, 1, 1-3 desunt. 4=Gobhila I, 5, 26. 5~8=I, 6, 1-13. 9-16 (15 deest)=I, 7, 2-19.
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deity, or a Yagus, (is repeated) once; twice (it is done) silently.
10. He should wash (the food) thrice, (if it is destined) for gods;
11. Twice, if for men;
12. Once, if for the Fathers.
13. Stirring it up with the pot-ladle from the left to the right he should cook it.
14. When he has cooked it, he should sprinkle (Agya) on it, should take it from the fire towards the north, and should again sprinkle (Agya) on it.
15. Thus all kinds of Havis (are prepared).
16. Having put (the Havis) on the sacrificial grass,
14. When he has cooked it, he should sprinkle (Agya) on it, should take it from the fire towards the north, and should again sprinkle (Agya) on it.
15. Thus all kinds of Havis (are prepared).
16. Having put (the Havis) on the sacrificial grass,
17, He should sacrifice the two Agya portions (in the following way): Having taken four portions of Agya—five portions are taken by the Bhrigus (or at least?) by the GAmadagnyas [see Indische Studien, 10, 95]—(he should make two oblations), to the north with (the formula), ‘To Agni Svahaé!’ to the south with (the formula), ‘To Soma Svaha!’
18. Others (do it) conversely. .
19. Having ‘spread under’ Agya, he should cut off with the pot-ladle (portions) of the Havis from the middle and from the eastern side;
20. One who takes five cut-off portions (see Sfitra 17), also from the western side.
21. After he has sprinkled (Agya) on (the cut-off portions), he anoints the places from which he has cut them off, (with Agya).
22. (This anointing) is omitted at the Svishéakrzt oblation.
23. He should sacrifice with (the formula), ‘To N.N. Sv4h4!’—according to the god to whom the oblation belongs.
24. Atthe Svish¢akvzt oblation he ‘ spreads under’ once—twice if he is a Bhyzgu—, (cuts off) once (a portion) of the Havis, sprinkles (Agya) on it twice, and sacrifices it in a north-eastern direction with (the formula), ‘To Agni Svish¢aky7t Svaha !’
25. Having put a piece of wood (on the fire),
26. He should dip Darbha-blades (of the sacrificial grass strewn round the fire) three times, the points, the middle, and the roots, into the Agya or into the Havis with (the words), ‘May the birds come, licking what has been anointed.’ Then, after having sprinkled (those Darbha-blades with water), he should throw them into the fire, with (the verse), ‘Thou who art the lord of cattle, Rudra, who walkest with the lines (of cattle), the manly one: do no harm to our cattle; let this be offered to thee. Sv4ha!’
8. For the sacrifice of the new moon the first fortnight.
9. Some say that he should keep his vow (until the sacrifice is performed) by abstaining from food.
10. If (the proper) sacrificial food is wanting, let him offer fruits of sacrificially pure (plants or trees);
11. Or leaves (of such plants or trees) ;
12. Or water.
13. For (even if he offers water) the sacrifice has been performed.
14. A penance (is prescribed) for one who does not perform the sacrifice.
15. If no Havis is indicated, one should offer Agya.
16. The deity (only should be named), if no Mantra is indicated.
17. In the third month of the first pregnancy (of the sacrificer’s wife he should perform) the Pumsavana (i.e. the ceremony to secure the birth of a son).
18, After she has bathed, her husband should put on her a (new) garment that has not yet been washed, and after having sacrificed he should stand behind her.
19. Grasping down over her right shoulder he
the ceremony to secure the birth of a son).
18, After she has bathed, her husband should put on her a (new) garment that has not yet been washed, and after having sacrificed he should stand behind her.
should touch the uncovered place of her navel with (the verse), ‘The two men’ (MB. I, 4, 8).
20. Then another (ceremony). Having bought for three times seven barley corns or beans, a Nyagrodha-shoot which has fruits on both sides, which is not dry, and not touched by worms, he should set that up with (the formula), ‘Ye herbs everywhere, being well-minded, bestow strength on this (shoot) ; for it will do its work.’
21. He then should take it and place it in the open air.
22, A girl, or a (wife) addicted (to her husband), or a student, or a Brahmazt should pound (that Nyagrodha-shoot) without moving backward (the stone with which she pounds it).
23. (The husband) should make (the wife) who has bathed, lie down, and should insert (that pounded substance) into her right nostril with (the verse), ‘A man is Agni’ (MB. I, 4, 9).
24. Then in the fourth or sixth month (of her pregnancy) the Simantonnayana (or parting of the hair is performed) for her.
25. After she has bathed, her husband should put on her a garment that has not yet been washed,
and after having sacrificed, he should stand behind her and should part her hair once with a well-proportioned (?) branch of a tree, on which there are fruits, (and) with a porcupine’s quill that has three white spots, with (the verse),‘Rich in sap is this tree’ (MB. I, 5, 1).
26. While she looks at a mess of boiled rice with sesamum seeds, covered with ghee, he should ask her, ‘What dost thou see ?’
27. He should make her reply, ‘Offspring !’
I, 5, 1).
26. While she looks at a mess of boiled rice with sesamum seeds, covered with ghee, he should ask her, ‘What dost thou see ?’
27. He should make her reply, ‘Offspring !’
28. When the child is appearing, the sacrifice for the woman in labour (is to be performed)—
29. With the two verses, ‘She who athwart’ (MB. I, 5, 6 seq.).
30. He should give a name to the child, ‘N.N.!’
31. That (is his) secret (name).
32. Before the navel-string is cut off and the breast is given (to the child, the father) should have rice and barley grains pounded in the way prescribed for the Nyagrodha-shoot (see Sftra 22).
33. He should take thereof with his (right) thumb and fourth finger and give it to the child to eat, with (the formula), ‘This order’ (MB. I, 5, 8).
34. And butter with (the verse), ‘May intelligence to thee’ (MB. I, 5, 9).
26. krésarasthalipakam uttaraghritam aveksha[n]tim prikshet kim pasyasiti. 27. pragdm iti vasayet. 28. pratish/hite vastau soshyantihomak. 29. yA tiraséitidvabhyim. 30. asdv iti nama dadhyat. 31. tad guhyam. 32. prin nabhikrzntanat stanadanas ka vrthiyavau peshayek shungavrita. 33. «ngush/Aenanamikaya kadaya kumaram prasayed iyam 4gfeti. 34. sarpis 4a medhan ta iti.
28-34=II, 7, 13 seqq.
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Kuawnpa 3.
1. On the third (Tithi) of the third bright fortnight after his birth, the father should have the child bathed in the morning, and after sunset he should, holding up his joined hands, towards the auspicious directions (of the horizon), worship the moon.
2. The mother, having dressed (the son) in a clean (garment), should hand him, with his face turned to the north, to the father.
3. She then should pass behind (her husband’s) back, and should station herself towards the north.
4. After he has performed worship (to the moon) with the three (verses), ‘Thy heart, O thou with the well-parted hair’ (MB. I, 5, 10 seqq.), and has handed over the son, turning him towards the north, to his mother, he should pour water out of his joined hands with (the verse), ‘What in the moon’ (1.1. 13).
5. (He should do the same) twice silently.
6. After a period of ten nights, or of a hundred nights, or of one year after (the child’s birth) he should give him a name.
7. He who is going to perform (that ceremony— the father or a representative of the father), after he
has had the boy bathed, should sit down, and the mother, having dressed him in a clean (garment), should hand him, with his face turned to the north, to the performer (of the ceremony).
8. She then should walk around behind (his) back and should sit down towards the north.
_g. He should sacrifice and should touch the senseorgans at (the boy’s) head with the (Mantra), ‘Who art thou ?’ (MB. I, 5, 14, 15.)
10. ‘N. N.!’—/(at the place thus indicated in the Mantra) he should give him a name.
11, The same (he should pronounce) at the end of the Mantra.
12. He should tell it to the mother first.
13. (The father) when returning from a journey, should grasp (with his two hands) his son round the head, with (the verses), ‘From limb by limb’ (MB. I, 5, 16-18).
14. With (the formula), ‘With the cattle’s’ (1.1. 19), he should kiss him.
15. Silently (he should do the same) with a daughter.
16. In the third year the tonsure (of the child’s head is performed).
razor of Udumbara-wood, and (Darbha)-blades (are placed) towards the south.
18. A bull's dung and a mess of boiled rice with sesamum seeds which may be more or less cooked, to the north ;
19. And the mother with the son in her lap.
20. (The performer of the ceremony), after having sacrificed, should look, with (the Mantra), ‘ Hither has come’ (MB. I, 6, 1), at the barber, fixing his thoughts on (the god) Savitvz.
21. With (the Mantra), ‘ With warm water’ (1.1. 2), he should look at the warm water, fixing his thoughts on Vayu.
22, With (the Mantra), ‘May the waters’ (1.1. 3), he moistens (the boy’s hair).
23. With (the Mantra), ‘Vishzu’s’ (I.1. 4), he should look at the mirror or at the razor of Udumbara-wood.
24. With (the Mantra), ‘Herb!’ (l.1. 5) he puts seven Darbha-blades, with their points upwards (i.e. towards the boy’s head ?), into (his hair).
25. With (the formula), ‘Axe!’ (1.1. 6) (he presses them down) with the mirror or with the razor of Udumbara-wood.
26. With (the Mantra), ‘With which Pdshan’ (1.1. 7), he should move forward (the razor) three
towards the boy’s head ?), into (his hair).
25. With (the formula), ‘Axe!’ (1.1. 6) (he presses them down) with the mirror or with the razor of Udumbara-wood.
26. With (the Mantra), ‘With which Pdshan’ (1.1. 7), he should move forward (the razor) three
times towards the east on the right side (of the boy’s hair).
27. Cutting (the hair) once with a razor of metal he should throw the hair on the bull’s dung.
28. The same rites, beginning from the moistening (of the hair, are repeated) on the left side and on the back side (of the child’s head).
29. Grasping (with his two hands) the boy round his head he should murmur (the verse), ‘The threefold age’ (1.1. 8). .
30. Walking away (from the fire) in a northern direction he should have the arrangement of (the boy’s) hair made according to the custom of his Gotra and of his family.
31. Let them bury the hair in the forest.
32. Some throw them on a bunch (of grass or the like).
33. A cow constitutes the sacrificial fee.
Kuawpa 4,
1. Let him initiate a Brdhmamza in his eighth year.
2. For him the time (for being initiated) has not passed until his sixteenth (year).
4. For him (the time has not passed) until the twenty-second.
5. In the twelfth a Vaisya.
6. For him (the time has not passed) until the twenty-fourth. .
7. After (the student’s) hair has been arranged, and he has been adorned, and dressed in a garment which has not yet been washed, (the teacher) should sacrifice with (the Mantras which the student recites), ‘Agni! Lord of the vow!’ (MB. I, 6, 9-13.)
8. He should cause (the student) to stand northwards of the fire, facing the west, and to join his hands.
g. And he should himself join his hands above (the student’s hands).
10. A Brahmaza versed in the Mantras who stands towards the south, should fill the teacher’s joined hands with water.
11, While (the student ?) looks at him, (the teacher) should murmur (the Mantra), ‘With him who comes to us’ (MB. I, 6, 14).
10. A Brahmaza versed in the Mantras who stands towards the south, should fill the teacher’s joined hands with water.
11, While (the student ?) looks at him, (the teacher) should murmur (the Mantra), ‘With him who comes to us’ (MB. I, 6, 14).
12. (The student) to whom (the teacher) has said, ‘What is thy name?’ should pronounce a name which he is to use at respectful salutations, derived from (the name of) a deity or a Nakshatra, ‘I am N.N.! (1.1. 17.)
13. Having let the water run (out of his joined hands over the student’s hands) the teacher should seize with his two hands, holding the right uppermost, (the student’s) joined hands, with (the formula), ‘ By the impulse of the god Savitrz’ (1. 1. 18).
14. With (the formula), ‘Move in the sun’s course’ (1.1. 19) he should make him turn round from left to right.
15. Grasping down over his right shoulder he should touch his uncovered navel with (the formula), ‘(Thou art the knot) of all breath’ (1.1. 20).
16. He then should give him in charge (to the gods) with the Antaka and the other formulas
(1. 1. 20 seqq.).
17. (He touches) his right shoulder with (the formula), ‘To Pragapati (I give) thee (in charge)’ (1.1. 23),
18, His left shoulder with his left (hand) with (the formula), ‘To the. god Savitvz (I give) thee (in charge)’ (1.1. 24).
19. Having directed him (to observe the duties of Brahmazarya, by the formula), ‘A student art thou’ (1.1. 25, 26), (the teacher) sitting down should from left to right tie round the student, who bends his right knee and clasps his hands, the girdle made of Muzga grass, and should cause him to repeat (the verse), ‘ Protecting us from evil word’ (1.1. 27).
16. Wearing the girdle, going the rounds for alms, (carrying) a staff, putting fuel (on the fire), touching water, reverentially saluting (the teacher) in the morning: (these are the) standing (duties).
17. The Godana-vrata, the Vratika-vrata, the Aditya-vrata, the Upanishad-vrata, and the Gyeshthas&ma-vrata (last) one year (each).
18. The Aditya-vrata some (do) not (undergo).
19. They who undergo it, wear one garment.
20. They allow nothing to be between (themselves and) the sun.
21. And they do not descend into water.
22. For the Sakvart verses, twelve, nine, six, or three (years through which the Vrata is to be kept) make up the various possibilities.
23. He (who keeps the S&akvara-vrata) wears dark clothes.
24. He eats dark food.
25. He is entirely addicted to his teacher.
26. He should stand in day-time.
27. He should sit at night.
28. According to some (teachers, the Vrata may last only) one year, if the ancestors (of the student) have learnt (the Sakvart verses).
15. na grdma upanahau. 16. mekhalédhdranabhaikshasaranadandasamidadhanopasparsanapratarabhivada nityam. 17. godénavratikadityavratopanishaggyesh/hasamikas samvatsara. 18, nAdityavratam ekeshim. 19. ye faranty ekavdsaso bhavanty. 20. Aditya# ka nantardadhate. 21. na A4posbhyupayanti. 22. sakvarindm dvadasa nava sha/traya iti vikalpi#. 23. krishmavastrah. 24. krishnabhaksha. 25. a#aryadhinas. 26. tishfhed diva. 27. asita naktam. 28. samvatsaram ekeshdm pfirvais srutés sed.
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29. (The teacher) should sing (those verses) to (the student) who has fasted and veiled his eyes (thinking), ‘May (the teacher) not burn me (with the Sakvart verses).’
30. In the morning they make (the student) look at such things as they expect will not burn him, viz. water, fire, a calf, the sun.
31. At water (he should look) with (the words), ‘Water have I beheld!’ At fire with (the words), ‘Light have I beheld!’ At the calf with (the words), ‘Cattle have I beheld!’ At the sun with (the words), ‘The sky have I beheld!’—thus he should break his silence.
32. A cow is the fee (for the teacher),
33. A brazen vessel, a garment, and a golden ornament.
34. At the Anupravaéantya ceremonies (see Asvalayana-Gvzhya I, 22, 12) he should sacrifice Agya with (the two verses), ‘To the Azz, to the SAman we sacrifice’ (SAma-veda I, 369), and, ‘The lord of the seat’ (Sv. I, 171).
35. If he has touched a fire-altar or a “sacrificial post, if he has humming in his ears, or if his eye
I, 171).
35. If he has touched a fire-altar or a “sacrificial post, if he has humming in his ears, or if his eye
palpitates, or if the sun rises or sets while he is sleeping, or if his organs of sense have been defiled by something bad, he should sacrifice two oblations of Agya with the two (verses), ‘May (my strength) return to me;’
36. Or two pieces of wood anointed with Agya.
37. Or he may murmur (those verses) at light (offences). Or he may murmur (those verses) at light (offences).
End of the Second Pazala.
36. agyalipte va samidhau. 37. gaped va laghushu, gaped va laghushu. dvitiyapasalah.
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Parata III, Kuawpa 1.
1. When (the student) is going to take the bath (at the end of his studentship), he seats himself in an enclosure to the east of his teacher's house.
2. The teacher (sits) facing the north,
3. On eastward-pointed (Darbha-grass).
4. Thus one (should act) who is desirous of holy lustre.
5. (The student should sit) in a cow-stable, if he is desirous of cattle,
6, In an assembly-hall, if desirous of renown.
7. Let him boil water with all kinds of herbs,
8. And with scents.
g. With that water, which must be lukewarm, the teacher should besprinkle (the student).
10. Or (the student should do so) himself, because that is signified by the Mantra.
11, Some say that both (should do so).
12, The teacher should say (in the Mantra), ‘Therewith (I besprinkle) him,’ (instead of, ‘Therewith I besprinkle myself’).
13. With (the verses), ‘Which in the waters’ (MB. I, 7, t) (the student) should pour out his joined hands full of water ;
III, 1, 1-32 =Gobhila III, 4, 7 seqq. (4-6, 11, 12, 15, 20 desunt).
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14. And with (the formula), ‘What (is dreadful) in the waters’ (1.1. 2);
15. And silently.
16. With (the formula), ‘The shining one’ (1.1. 3), he should draw (some water) and should besprinkle himself (therewith) ;
17. And with (the verse), ‘By which the wife’ (1.1. 5);
14. And with (the formula), ‘What (is dreadful) in the waters’ (1.1. 2);
15. And silently.
16. With (the formula), ‘The shining one’ (1.1. 3), he should draw (some water) and should besprinkle himself (therewith) ;
17. And with (the verse), ‘By which the wife’ (1.1. 5);
18. And silently.
19. With (the formulas), ‘ Rising’ (1.1. 6-8), he. should worship the sun.
20. He may repeat (the sections of that Mantra) continuously.
21. If he repeats them separately, he should add at the end (of each section), ‘The eye art thou’
(I. 1. 9).
22. With (the verse), ‘Loosen the highest’ (1.1. 10), he should take off the girdle.
23. After he has eaten something, he should have his hair, his beard, the hair of his body, and his nails cut, so as to leave the lock of hair (as required by the custom of his family).
24. Having adorned himself and put on clothes which have not yet been washed, he should put a garland (on his head) with (the formula), ‘Luck’
(lI. 11).
25. The two shoes (he puts on) with (the formula), ‘Leaders are you’ (I. 1. 12).
by another door (than the usual), or which has been cooked twice, or which has stood over-night—
39. Except such as is prepared of vegetables, flesh, barley, or flour—
40. Or of milk.
41. He shall avoid gathering fruits, looking into wells, running while it is raining, and taking his shoes in his hands.
42. He should not wear a scentless wreath,
43- If it is not a wreath of gold.
44. He should not use the word ‘blessed’ without a reason.
45. If he is desirous of thriving (in his cattle), he should with (the Mantra), ‘May these’ (MB. I, 8, 1) have his cows driven out.
46. When they have come back, (he should recite the Mantra), ‘These which are rich in sweet’ (1.1. 2).
47. If he is desirous of thriving (in his cattle), he should lick the forehead of the first-born calf, before it is licked by its mother, and should gulp with (the formula), (‘ Thou art the phlegm) of the cows’ (1.1. 3).
48. When the cows have calved, he should at night sacrifice in the cow-stable churned curds with drops of ghee, with (the verse), ‘Seizer’ (1.1. 4).
39. anyatra sikamamsayavapish/avikarebhyak. 40. payasaé ka.
41. phalapratayanodap4navekshamavarshatidh4vanop4natsvayamharanini na kuryan. 42. nagandham sragam dharayen. 43. na ked dhiranyasrag. 44. bhadram iti na vrztha vyaharet. 45. push- “ikémo ga prakalayed ima ma iti. 46. praty4gata ima madhumatir iti. 47. pushfikdma eva prathamagdtasya vatsasya praén matu/ pralehan4l lala/am ullihya nigired gavém iti. 48. sampragatasu goshéhe nisayam vilayana# guhuyat samgrahanety.
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49. Now another (ceremony). He should make marks on the ears of a male and of a female calf with (the formula), ‘The world art thou’ (1.1. 5, 6).
50. First on the male.
51. He should recite over them (the Mantra), ‘With metal’ (1.1.7). ,
52. When the rope (to which the calves are bound) is spread out, (let him recite over it the Mantra), ‘This rope’ (1.1. 8).
Kuyawnpa 2,
5, 6).
50. First on the male.
51. He should recite over them (the Mantra), ‘With metal’ (1.1.7). ,
52. When the rope (to which the calves are bound) is spread out, (let him recite over it the Mantra), ‘This rope’ (1.1. 8).
Kuyawnpa 2,
1. On the full-moon day of (the month) Sravaza, let him carry forward fire from his house, and let him besmear (the place around it) to the extent of more than one prakrama (i.e. step) towards the different directions (of the horizon).
2. Having once taken a quantity of flour, and having put it into (the spoon called) Darvi, he should pour out water on the besmeared place to the east (of the fire), and should offer a Bali with (the formula), (‘O king of serpents) dwelling towards the east’ (MB. II, 1, 1).
towards the other directions (of the horizon) according as they are mentioned in the Mantras.
5. Between (the besmeared surface) towards the south and that towards the east and the fire (there should be) a passage.
6. After he has thrown the remnants (of flour) out of the basket into the fire, he should go from (the fire) which has been carried forward, to that (fire) which has not (been carried forward), and should turn his hands downwards (so as to touch the earth with them) and should murmur (the Mantra), ‘ Adoration to the earth’s’ (1.1. 3).
7. Thence rising he should place (to the north of the fire) a bunch of Darbha-grass with (the Mantra), ‘ The king Soma’ (1.1. 4), and should fix his thoughts on the serpents that are in that bunch.
8. Taking a portion of fried grain, he should go out of the village in a northern or eastern direction, and should sacrifice it with his joined hands with the four (verses), ‘Hearken, R4k4!’ (MB. II, 6, 2 seqq.).
9. Walking eastwards he should murmur, ‘ Be a giver of wealth’ (1.1. 6).
10. Thus three times to the different quarters and intermediate quarters (of the horizon).
5. dakshizapashime antarendgni# ka samkarah. 6. sfirpena sish- An agnav opy&tipram{tad anatipramitasyardham gatva nya#sau pant kritva nama Prithivya iti gapet. 7. tata utthdya Somo rageti darbhastambam upasthfya (correct, upasthapya) stambasthan sarpan manasa dhy4yann. 8. akshatén Adaya prin vodan va gréman nishkramya guhuyéd adgalina haye Raka iti atasribhiz. 9. pran utkramya gaped vasuvana edhiti. ro. tris tri# pratidisam avantaradeseshu 4o.
8-13=IV, 8, 1 seqq. (10 deest).
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8. akshatén Adaya prin vodan va gréman nishkramya guhuyéd adgalina haye Raka iti atasribhiz. 9. pran utkramya gaped vasuvana edhiti. ro. tris tri# pratidisam avantaradeseshu 4o.
8-13=IV, 8, 1 seqq. (10 deest).
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11. Looking upwards (he should offer a Bali) to the hosts of divine beings,
12. (Looking) towards the side, to the hosts of other beings ;
13. Looking downwards, he should go back (to the fire) without looking back, and should eat the fried grain.
14. On the following day he should prepare flour of fried grain, should put it into a new vessel, and after sunset he should offer Balis.
15. (The same is repeated every day) till the AgrahAyant day.
16. On the full-moon day of Praush¢/apada (or) under (the Nakshatra) Hasta they should begin the Veda-study ;
17. On the full-moon day of Sravaza, » according to some (teachers).
18. Having sacrificed as at the Upanayana—
19. He should cause (the students) to recite the SAvitrt, |
20. (The verse), ‘Soma, the king’ (Sdma-veda I, 91), and the first verses of the Parvans.
21. Let them eat grain and curds with two appropriate (verses).
22. On the following day in the morning let them repeat (the Veda) to their pupils.
23. (After each section of the text) they should repeat (as a sort of index ?) the beginnings of the Rikas and the PrastAvas (of the SAmans).
24. Then the Rahasya texts are chanted,
25. Except when lightning is seen or thunder heard.
26. When they have studied four months and a half, they finish on the full-moon day of Pausha.
27. From that time studying is forbidden when clouds appear,
28. And when lightning is seen, or thunder heard, or when it is drizzling.
29. When these three things happen together, (studying is forbidden) till the twilight has thrice passed.
30. On an Ash¢ak4, on a new-moon day, on the (three) festivals which come once in four months, and at (the beginning of) the northern course of the sun, (studying is forbidden) for one night with one day before and one day after it.
31. And if a fellow-pupil has died.
32. On the falling of a meteor, or after an earthquake, or an eclipse of the sun or of the moon, on these occasions one should know (that studying is forbidden) until the same time next day.
33. The Ka¢kas and Kauthumas, however, state
31. And if a fellow-pupil has died.
32. On the falling of a meteor, or after an earthquake, or an eclipse of the sun or of the moon, on these occasions one should know (that studying is forbidden) until the same time next day.
vp. 415 that (when rain has fallen, studying is forbidden) as long as the water stands in the ditches.
Kuawpa 3,
1. On the full-moon day of Asvayuga milk-rice sacred to Rudra (is prepared).
2. He should offer it with (the Mantra), ‘Not to our children.’
3. Let him pour Agya into milk; this is called a Pyzshataka.
4. Therewith he should besprinkle the cows when they have come home, with (the Mantra), ‘May Mitra and Varuza’ (SA4ma-veda I, 220).
5. That night he should let the calves join their mothers.
6. At the sacrifice of the first-fruits, milk-rice sacred to Indra and Agni (is prepared).
7, Let him sacrifice Agya with the four (verses), ‘To the bearer of the hundred weapons’ (MB. II, 1, 9 seqq.),
8. And afterwards with (the verse), ‘May Agni eat’ (1.1.15).
g. All of them who have received the initiation, should eat the remainder of that (sacrificial food).
10. Having ‘spread under’ water, he should cut off two portions of the new fruits.
8, 1. Asvayugim Rudrfya payaso. 2. m4 nas toka iti guhuyét. 3. payasy avanayed 4gyam tat prishatakam. 4. tendbhyAgat4 g4 ukshed 4 no Mitravarumeti. 5. vatsdms ka matrzbhis saha vdsayet tim ratrim. 6. navayagfie pfyasa aindragnak. 7. satéyudhayeti datasrzbhir 4gyam guhuyad. 8. uparish4ad Agnif prasnatv iti fa. 9. tasya sesham prasniyur yavanta upeté. ro. upastiryapo dvir navasyAvadyet.
3, 1-15=Gobhila III, 8 (3 deest).
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11. Three (portions are cut off) by descendants of Bhvzgu.
12. Over (these portions) water (is poured).
13. He should swallow (some part of that food) three times without chewing it, with (the Mantra), ‘From the good’ (I. 1. 13);
14. Or at (the partaking of) barley with (the Mantra), ‘ This barley’ (I. 1. 16).
15. With (the Mantra), ‘This art thou’ (1.1. 14), let him touch the different sense-organs at his head.
16. The Agrahayana ceremony has been explained by the Sravawa (ceremony).
17. Let him (not ?) murmur (the Mantra), ‘Adoration to the Earth’ (see chap. 2, 6).
18. In the evening let him make an oblation of milk-rice with (the verse), ‘As the first’ (MB. IT, 2, 1).
16. The Agrahayana ceremony has been explained by the Sravawa (ceremony).
17. Let him (not ?) murmur (the Mantra), ‘Adoration to the Earth’ (see chap. 2, 6).
18. In the evening let him make an oblation of milk-rice with (the verse), ‘As the first’ (MB. IT, 2, 1).
19. Turning downwards his two hands (so as to touch the sacrificial grass) he should murmur (the Mantra), ‘In worldly strength’ (I. 1. 2, 3).
20. Having spread out to the west of the fire a layer of northward-pointed grass, so that it is inclined towards the north, the householder sits down on that layer,
21, (And) the other persons in due order.
22. Then, without an interval, their wives,
11. trir BhrzgQv4m. 12. apa# koparishfad. 13. bhadrén na ity asamkhadya pragiret tris trir. 14. etam u tyam iti va yavandm.
24. The householder, turning his hands downwards (so as to touch the layer of grass), should murmur (the Mantra), ‘ Be soft’ (1.1. 4).
25. When he has finished that (verse), they should lie down on their right sides. They should turn round three times, turning themselves towards themselves (i.e. turning round forwards, not backwards, and thus returning to their former position ?).
26. Let them repeat the auspicious hymns.
27. Then let them do what they like.
28. The eighth days of the three dark fortnights after the Agrahdyamt are called the Ashéakas.
29. On (each of) these a mess of cooked food (is° sacrificed),
30. And eight cakes on the first.
31. These he should bake ina dish without turning them round.
32. On the last (Ash¢ak4) vegetables (are offered). (So also) at the Anvaharya (Sraddha).
33. Let him sacrifice with (the formula), ‘To the Ashéaka Sva4hé !’
Kuanpa 4, 1. On the middle (AshéakA) a cow (is sacrificed).