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1The following word in the Khadira text, however, anddese, should be referred, against tradition, to Sftra 13, as is shown by the comparison of Sankh4yana-Grthya I, 12, 13. 28. At the wedding, oblations are made first with the three single Mahavy4hritis, afterwards with the Mahavy4hritis together; see below, II, 1, 25. 26. The tonsure of the child’s head is treated of below, II, 9; the initiation (upanayana), II, 10; the cutting of the beard, III, 1. Comp. Khadira-Grzhya, I, 3, 10. 29. Apavrztte karmani should be corrected into apavrikte karmani, as has been noticed in the Petersburg Dictionary, s. v. apa-vart. The Sankh4yana-Grchya I, 2, 1 says karmapavarge. 42 GRIHYA-SOTRA OF GOBHILA. PrapAr#aka II, KAwnp1KkA 1. 1. Under a propitious Nakshatra let him take a wife— 2. Who should possess the auspicious characteristics in due way. 3. If he can find no such (woman, he should take) earth-clods— 4. From an altar, a furrow, a pool, a cow-stable, a place where four roads meet, a gambling-place, a place where corpses are burnt, and from sterile soil ; 5. A ninth (earth-clod) mixed of all. 6. (These he should make) equal (and should) make marks at them. 7. Taking them in his hand he should offer them to the girl, and (reciting the formula) : ‘ Right alone is the first; right nobody oversteps; on right this earth is founded. May N.N. become this universe!’ —he should pronounce her name and should say: ‘ Take one of these.’ , 8. If she takes one of the first four (clods), he should marry her, 1, 1-4. Description of the wedding. Comp. Indische Studien, V, 288, 305 seq. ; 312 seq. ; 368 seq. 2. In translating kusalena I have been guided by the comparison of I, 5, 26 (comp. Béhtlingk-Roth, s.v. kusala). The commentary understands the Sfitra in a different way. He should take a woman who possesses auspicious characteristics commended by one versed (kusala) in the characteristics of women. If he can find no such person who is able to judge, he should, &c. (Stra 3). 4. Comp. Asvalayana-Grthya I, 5,5; Grthya-samgraha II, 21-23. 1. Asvalayana-Grihya, l. 1. § 4. Il PRAPATHAKA, I KANDIKA, 14. 43 9. And according to some (teachers) also, if (she takes) the mixed one. 10. After she has been washed with Klttaka, barley and beans, a friend should besprinkle her three times at her head, so that her whole body becomes wet, with Sura of first quality, with (the formula), ‘K4ma! I know thy name. Intoxication thou art by name,’ &c. (Mantra-Braéhmaza 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 Sv4hé at their end. With the two following verses he should wash her private parts. 11, 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).
2(The Mantras should have) the word Sv4hé at their end. With the two following verses he should wash her private parts. 11, 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). g. See Sftra 5. ro. ‘With Klitaka,’ &c., means, with water into which KIftaka, &c., has been thrown; comp. Grthya-samgraha II, 15. ‘Sura of first quality’ is Sura prepared from molasses ; see Gréhya-samgraha II, 16. Comp., however, also Grihya-samgraha II, 41. 13. Khadira-Grthya I, 3, 5 ; Gréhya-samgraha II, 25. 26. ‘Firm water’ seems to be water which does not dry up. The Grzhyasamgraha 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. 44 GRIHYA-SUTRA OF GOBHILA. 15. They place roasted grain mixed with Samt leaves, to the amount of four handfuls, in a winnowing basket behind the fire, 16. And an upper mill-stone. 17. Now (the girl) whose hand he is going to seize, has been washed, (her whole body) including her head. 18. The husband should put on her a (new) garment which has not yet been washed, with the verse, ‘They who spun’ (Mantra-Brahmama I, 1, 5), and with (the verse), ‘ Put on her, dress her’ (I. 1. 6). 19. Leading forward (from the house to the sacred fire, the bride) who is wrapped in her robe and wears the sacrificial cord over her left shoulder, he should murmur (the verse), ‘Soma gave her to the Gandharva’ (MB. I, 1, 7). 20. While she, to the west of the fire, pushes forward with her foot a rush-mat or something else of that kind, veiled (with clothes), he should make her say : ‘May the way which my husband goes, be open to me.’ 21. If she does not murmur (these words out of shame, &c.), he should murmur (them, saying), ‘To her’ (instead of ‘To me’). 22. She should make the end of the rush-mat (Sdtra 20) reach the end of the Barhis. 23. On the east end of the rush-mat she sits down to the right of the bridegroom. 17-19. Khfdira-Grzhya I, 3,6. Yag#opavitinim in Sftra 19 means, according to the commentary, that she wears her outer garment arranged like the sacrificial cord, over her left shoulder; for women are not allowed to wear the sacrificial cord itself. 20. Grthya-samgraha II, 27 seq. Il PRAPATHAKA, 2 KANDIKA, 7. 45
3Yag#opavitinim in Sftra 19 means, according to the commentary, that she wears her outer garment arranged like the sacrificial cord, over her left shoulder; for women are not allowed to wear the sacrificial cord itself. 20. Grthya-samgraha II, 27 seq. Il PRAPATHAKA, 2 KANDIKA, 7. 45 24. While she touches his right shoulder with her right hand, he sacrifices six oblations of Agya with ‘(the verse), ‘May Agni go as the first,’ and the following (verses) (MB. I, 1, 9-14)— 25. And (three oblations) with the Mahavy4hzttis, one by one; 26. A fourth with (the four Mah4vy4hr‘?tis) together, KAwnpikh 2. 1. After the sacrifice they both arise. 2. The husband passes behind her back, stations himself to the south, with his face turned to the north, and seizes the woman’s joined hands. 3. (Standing) to the east (of the girl) her mother or her brother, having taken the roasted grain, should make the bride tread on the stone with the tip of her right foot. 4. The bridegroom murmurs: ‘Tread on this stone’ (MB. I, 2, 1). 5. Her brother filling once his joined hands with roasted grain, pours it into the bride’s joined hands. 6. After (Agya) has been spread under and poured over (the fried grain), she sacrifices that in the fire without opening her joined hands, with (the verse which the bridegroom [?] recites), ‘This woman says’ (MB. I, 2, 2). 7. (The verses), ‘The god Aryaman,’ and, ‘ Pd- 24-26. Khédira-Grthya I, 3, 11-13. 2, 1 seqq. Kh4dira-Grzhya I, 3, 16 seqq. 3. The roasted grain is that mentioned chap. 1, 15, the stone, Sftra 16. 6. Comp. Grzhya-samgraha II, 34. 7. On the repetitions of the ligahoma, see below, Sfitras g. ro. 46 GRIHYA-SOTRA OF GOBHILA, shan’ (1. 1. 3. 4) (are repeated) at the two following (oblations of fried grain). 8. After that sacrifice the husband, passing (behind her back), returns in the same way, and leads her round the fire so that their right sides are turned towards it, or a Brahmama versed in the Mantras (does the same), with (the verse), ‘The maid from the fathers’ (MB. I, 2, 5). g. After she has thus been lead round, she stands as before (Satras 1. 2), and treads (on the stone) as before (Sitra 3), and he murmurs the (Mantra) as before (Sftra 4), and (her brother) pours (the fried grain into her hands) as before (Sdtra 5), and she sacrifices as before (Sdtra 6), 10, In the same way three times. 11. After (she) has poured the remnants (of the fried grain) into the fire, they make (her) step forward in a north-easterly direction with (the formula), ‘For sap with one step’ (MB. I, 2, 6, 7). 12. She should put forward her right foot (first) and should follow with the left. 13. (The bridegroom) should say (to her), ‘Do not put the left (foot) before the right.’ 14. The lookers-on he should address with (the verse), ‘Auspicious ornaments wears this woman’ (1. 1. 8).
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1The following word in the Khadira text, however, anddese, should be referred, against tradition, to Sftra 13, as is shown by the comparison of Sankh4yana-Grthya I, 12, 13. 28. At the wedding, oblations are made first with the three single Mahavy4hritis, afterwards with the Mahavy4hritis together; see below, II, 1, 25. 26. The tonsure of the child’s head is treated of below, II, 9; the initiation (upanayana), II, 10; the cutting of the beard, III, 1. Comp. Khadira-Grzhya, I, 3, 10. 29. Apavrztte karmani should be corrected into apavrikte karmani, as has been noticed in the Petersburg Dictionary, s. v. apa-vart. The Sankh4yana-Grchya I, 2, 1 says karmapavarge. 42 GRIHYA-SOTRA OF GOBHILA. PrapAr#aka II, KAwnp1KkA 1. 1. Under a propitious Nakshatra let him take a wife— 2. Who should possess the auspicious characteristics in due way. 3. If he can find no such (woman, he should take) earth-clods— 4. From an altar, a furrow, a pool, a cow-stable, a place where four roads meet, a gambling-place, a place where corpses are burnt, and from sterile soil ; 5. A ninth (earth-clod) mixed of all. 6. (These he should make) equal (and should) make marks at them. 7. Taking them in his hand he should offer them to the girl, and (reciting the formula) : ‘ Right alone is the first; right nobody oversteps; on right this earth is founded. May N.N. become this universe!’ —he should pronounce her name and should say: ‘ Take one of these.’ , 8. If she takes one of the first four (clods), he should marry her, 1, 1-4. Description of the wedding. Comp. Indische Studien, V, 288, 305 seq. ; 312 seq. ; 368 seq. 2. In translating kusalena I have been guided by the comparison of I, 5, 26 (comp. Béhtlingk-Roth, s.v. kusala). The commentary understands the Sfitra in a different way. He should take a woman who possesses auspicious characteristics commended by one versed (kusala) in the characteristics of women. If he can find no such person who is able to judge, he should, &c. (Stra 3). 4. Comp. Asvalayana-Grthya I, 5,5; Grthya-samgraha II, 21-23. 1. Asvalayana-Grihya, l. 1. § 4. Il PRAPATHAKA, I KANDIKA, 14. 43 9. And according to some (teachers) also, if (she takes) the mixed one. 10. After she has been washed with Klttaka, barley and beans, a friend should besprinkle her three times at her head, so that her whole body becomes wet, with Sura of first quality, with (the formula), ‘K4ma! I know thy name. Intoxication thou art by name,’ &c. (Mantra-Braéhmaza 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 Sv4hé at their end. With the two following verses he should wash her private parts. 11, 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).
2(The Mantras should have) the word Sv4hé at their end. With the two following verses he should wash her private parts. 11, 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). g. See Sftra 5. ro. ‘With Klitaka,’ &c., means, with water into which KIftaka, &c., has been thrown; comp. Grthya-samgraha II, 15. ‘Sura of first quality’ is Sura prepared from molasses ; see Gréhya-samgraha II, 16. Comp., however, also Grihya-samgraha II, 41. 13. Khadira-Grthya I, 3, 5 ; Gréhya-samgraha II, 25. 26. ‘Firm water’ seems to be water which does not dry up. The Grzhyasamgraha 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. 44 GRIHYA-SUTRA OF GOBHILA. 15. They place roasted grain mixed with Samt leaves, to the amount of four handfuls, in a winnowing basket behind the fire, 16. And an upper mill-stone. 17. Now (the girl) whose hand he is going to seize, has been washed, (her whole body) including her head. 18. The husband should put on her a (new) garment which has not yet been washed, with the verse, ‘They who spun’ (Mantra-Brahmama I, 1, 5), and with (the verse), ‘ Put on her, dress her’ (I. 1. 6). 19. Leading forward (from the house to the sacred fire, the bride) who is wrapped in her robe and wears the sacrificial cord over her left shoulder, he should murmur (the verse), ‘Soma gave her to the Gandharva’ (MB. I, 1, 7). 20. While she, to the west of the fire, pushes forward with her foot a rush-mat or something else of that kind, veiled (with clothes), he should make her say : ‘May the way which my husband goes, be open to me.’ 21. If she does not murmur (these words out of shame, &c.), he should murmur (them, saying), ‘To her’ (instead of ‘To me’). 22. She should make the end of the rush-mat (Sdtra 20) reach the end of the Barhis. 23. On the east end of the rush-mat she sits down to the right of the bridegroom. 17-19. Khfdira-Grzhya I, 3,6. Yag#opavitinim in Sftra 19 means, according to the commentary, that she wears her outer garment arranged like the sacrificial cord, over her left shoulder; for women are not allowed to wear the sacrificial cord itself. 20. Grthya-samgraha II, 27 seq. Il PRAPATHAKA, 2 KANDIKA, 7. 45
3Yag#opavitinim in Sftra 19 means, according to the commentary, that she wears her outer garment arranged like the sacrificial cord, over her left shoulder; for women are not allowed to wear the sacrificial cord itself. 20. Grthya-samgraha II, 27 seq. Il PRAPATHAKA, 2 KANDIKA, 7. 45 24. While she touches his right shoulder with her right hand, he sacrifices six oblations of Agya with ‘(the verse), ‘May Agni go as the first,’ and the following (verses) (MB. I, 1, 9-14)— 25. And (three oblations) with the Mahavy4hzttis, one by one; 26. A fourth with (the four Mah4vy4hr‘?tis) together, KAwnpikh 2. 1. After the sacrifice they both arise. 2. The husband passes behind her back, stations himself to the south, with his face turned to the north, and seizes the woman’s joined hands. 3. (Standing) to the east (of the girl) her mother or her brother, having taken the roasted grain, should make the bride tread on the stone with the tip of her right foot. 4. The bridegroom murmurs: ‘Tread on this stone’ (MB. I, 2, 1). 5. Her brother filling once his joined hands with roasted grain, pours it into the bride’s joined hands. 6. After (Agya) has been spread under and poured over (the fried grain), she sacrifices that in the fire without opening her joined hands, with (the verse which the bridegroom [?] recites), ‘This woman says’ (MB. I, 2, 2). 7. (The verses), ‘The god Aryaman,’ and, ‘ Pd- 24-26. Khédira-Grthya I, 3, 11-13. 2, 1 seqq. Kh4dira-Grzhya I, 3, 16 seqq. 3. The roasted grain is that mentioned chap. 1, 15, the stone, Sftra 16. 6. Comp. Grzhya-samgraha II, 34. 7. On the repetitions of the ligahoma, see below, Sfitras g. ro. 46 GRIHYA-SOTRA OF GOBHILA, shan’ (1. 1. 3. 4) (are repeated) at the two following (oblations of fried grain). 8. After that sacrifice the husband, passing (behind her back), returns in the same way, and leads her round the fire so that their right sides are turned towards it, or a Brahmama versed in the Mantras (does the same), with (the verse), ‘The maid from the fathers’ (MB. I, 2, 5). g. After she has thus been lead round, she stands as before (Satras 1. 2), and treads (on the stone) as before (Sitra 3), and he murmurs the (Mantra) as before (Sftra 4), and (her brother) pours (the fried grain into her hands) as before (Sdtra 5), and she sacrifices as before (Sdtra 6), 10, In the same way three times. 11. After (she) has poured the remnants (of the fried grain) into the fire, they make (her) step forward in a north-easterly direction with (the formula), ‘For sap with one step’ (MB. I, 2, 6, 7). 12. She should put forward her right foot (first) and should follow with the left. 13. (The bridegroom) should say (to her), ‘Do not put the left (foot) before the right.’ 14. The lookers-on he should address with (the verse), ‘Auspicious ornaments wears this woman’ (1. 1. 8).
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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