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1. [1] The times for the monthly Srâddha are in the second fortnight (of the month), as they are stated.
2. Let him feed, without regard of (worldly) purposes, pure Brâhmanas, versed in the Mantras, who are not connected with himself by consanguinity or by their Gotra or by the Mantras (such as his teacher or his pupils), an odd number, at least three.
3. He makes oblations of the food (prepared for the Brâhmanas) with the next (verses, II, 19,1-7);
4. Then the Âgya oblations (indicated by the) next (Mantras, II, 19, 8-13).
5. Or invertedly (i.e. he offers Âgya with the verses referred to in Sûtra 3, and food with those referred to in Sûtra 4).
6. Let him touch the whole (food) with the next (formulas, II, 19, 14-16).
7. Or the (single) prepared (portions of food destined) for the single Brâhmanas.
8. Having caused them with the next (formula, II, 20, 1) to touch (the food, he gives it to them to eat).
9. When they have eaten (and gone away), he goes after them, circumambulates them, turning his right side towards them, spreads out southward-pointed Darbha grass in two different layers, pours water on it with the next (formulas, II, 20, 2-7), distributes the Pindas, ending in the south, with the next (formulas, II, 20, 8-13), pours out water as before with the next (formulas, 14-19), worships (the [ p. 293 ] ancestors) with the next (formulas, II, 20, 20-23), sprinkles with the next (verse, 24) water three times from right to left round (the Pindas) with a water-pot, besprinkles the vessels, which are turned upside down, repeating the next Yanus (25) at least three times without taking breath, sets up the vessels two by two, cuts off (Avadânas) from all (portions of food), and eats of the remains at least one morsel with the next Yanus (26).
10. Of the dark fortnight that follows after the full moon of Mâgha, the eighth day falls under (the constellation of) _Gyeshth_â: this day is called Ekâshyeshakâ.
11. In the evening before that day (he performs) the preparatory ceremony.
12. [2] He bakes a cake of four cups (of rice).
13. (The cake is prepared) in eight dishes (like a Purodâda), according to some (teachers).
1. [3] After the ceremonies down to the Âgyabhâga oblations have been performed in the same way as at the fortnightly sacrifices, he makes with his joined hands oblations of the cake with the next (verse, II, 20, 27).
2. [4] The rest (of the cake) he makes ready, divides (it) into eight parts and offers it to the Brâhmanas. [ p. 294 ]
3. On the following day he touches a cow with a Darbha blade, with the words, ‘I touch thee agreeable to the Fathers.’
4. [5] Having silently offered five Âsya oblations, and having cooked, the omentum of the (cow), and performed the ‘spreading under’ and the sprinkling over (of Âsya), he sacrifices (the omentum) with the next (verse, II, 20, 28) with a Palâsa leaf from the middle or the end (of the stalk).
5. (He sacrifices) boiled rice together with the meat (of the cow) with the next (verses, II, 20, 29-35),
6. Food prepared of meal with the next (verse, II, 21, 1),
7. Then the Âgya oblations (indicated by the) next (Mantras, II, 21, 2-9).
8. (The rites) from the Svishtaktt down to the offering of the Pittas are the same (as at the Srâddha).
9. Some (teachers) prescribe the Pinda offering for the day after the Ashnakâ.
10. Here (follows) another (way for celebrating the Ashtakâ sacrifice). He sacrifices curds with his joined hands in the same way as the cake.
11. Having left over from the meat of the (cow, see above, 3. 4) as much as is required, on the day after (the Ashtakâ) (he performs) the rite of the Anvashtakâ.
12. This rite has been explained in the description of the monthly Srâddha.
13. If he goes out in order to beg for something, [ p. 295 ] let him murmur the next (Mantras, II, 21, 10-16) and then state his desire.
14. If he has obtained a chariot, he has the horses put to it, lets it face the east, and touches with the next (verse, II, 21, 17) the two wheels of the chariot or the two side-pieces.
15. With the next Yagus (II, 21, 18) he should mount, and drive with the next (verse, II, 21, 19) towards the east or north, and should then drive off on his business.
16. Let him mount a horse with the next (formulas, II, 21, 20-30),
17. An elephant with the next (formula, II, 21, 31).
18. [6] If any harm is done him by these two (beasts), let him touch the earth as indicated above.
19. If he is going to a dispute, he takes the parasol and the staff in his left hand.
1. Having sacrificed, with his right hand, a fist full of chaff with the next (verse, II, 21, 32), he should go away and murmur the next (verse, 33).
2. Over an angry person let him recite the two next (formulas, II, 22, 1. 2); then his anger will be appeased.
3. [7] One who wishes that his wife should not be touched by other men, should have big living centipedes ground to powder, and should insert (that powder) with the next (formula, II, 22, 3), while she is sleeping, into her secret parts.
4. For success (in the generation of children) [ p. 296 ] let him wash (his wife) with the urine of a red-brown cow.
5. For success (in trade) let him sacrifice with the next (verse—II, 22, 4—some portion) from the articles of trade which he has in his house.
6. [8] If he wishes that somebody be not estranged from him, let him pour his own urine into the horn of a living animal, and sprinkle (it) with the next two (verses, II, 22, 5. 6) three times from right to left around (the person) while he is sleeping.
7. In a path which servants or labourers use to run away, he should put plates (used for protecting the hands when holding a hot sacrificial pan) on (a fire), and should offer the oblations (indicated by the) next (Mantras, II, 22, 7-10).
8. If a fruit falls on him from a tree, or a bird befouls him, or a drop of water falls on him when no rain is expected, he should wipe that off with the next (Mantras, II, 22, 11-13), according to the characteristics (contained in these Mantras).
9. If a post of his house puts forth shoots, or if honey is made in his house (by bees), or if the footprint of a dove is seen on the hearth, or if diseases arise in his household, or in the case of other miracles or prodigies, let him perform in the new-moon night, at dead of night, at a place where he does not hear the noise of water, the rites from the putting (of wood) on the fire down to the Âgyabhâga oblations, and let him offer the oblations (indicated in the) next (Mantras, II, 22, 14-23), and enter upon the performance of the Gaya and following oblations. [ p. 297 ]
10. Having performed (the ceremonies) down to the sprinkling (of water) round (the fire), he puts up towards the south with the next (verse, II, 22, 24) a stone as a barrier for those among whom a death has occurred.
End of the Âpastambîya-Grihya-sûtra.
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292:1 21, 1. Comp. Dharmasâstra II, 7, 16, 8 seq.; Sacred Books, vol. ii, p. 139. Comp. Professor Bühler’s remarks, vol. ii, p. xiv. ↩︎
293:12 12, 13. Comp. Hiranyak. II, 5, 14, 3 seq. ↩︎
293:1 22, 1. Comp. above, VII, 18, 6. ↩︎
293:2 I believe that seshah means the rest of the cake. The word ‘siddha_h_’ possibly refers to such preparations of the food as are indicated in Hiraeshayak. II, 5, 14, 7. Haradatta understands seshaheshaseshah): ‘The rest of the rites is p. 294 the regular one, without alterations:’ it must be admitted that the expressions used by Hiraeshayak. II, 5, 14, 10 would agree well with this explanation. ↩︎
294:4 See above, V, 13, 16. ↩︎
295:18 See VII, 19, 11. On reshane, comp. below, 23, 9. ↩︎
295:3 23, 3. Comp. Hiranyak. I, 4, 14, 7. ↩︎
296:6 6, 7. Comp. Pâraskara III, 7; Hiranyak. I, 4, 13, 19 seqq. ↩︎