Agniveshyagrihyasutra 3.5.2
Āgniveśyagṛhyasūtra 3.5.2
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- Sanskrit
3.5.2.1
pareyuvāṃsaṃ pravato mahīranu bahubhyaḥ panthāmanapaspaśānam \
"Him who passed away along the great declivities, who spied out the path for many..."
3.5.2.2
vaivasvataṃ saṃgamanaṃ janānāṃ yamaṃ rājānaṃ haviṣā duvasyata svāhā iti \
the son of Vivasvat, the gatherer of peoples, king Yama—honor with an oblation, svāhā!'
3.5.2.3
etenaiva gārhapatye juhoti \
With this very [verse] he offers in the Gārhapatya fire.
3.5.2.4
tūṣṇīmanvāhāryapacane hutvāthainamādāyāntareṇa vedyutkarau prapādya jaghanena gārhapatyamāsandyāṃ kṛṣṇājine dakṣiṇāśirasaṃ saṃveśya śirasto naḷadamālāṃ pratimucya pattodaśenāhatena vāsasā prorṇoti idaṃ tvā vastraṃ prathamaṃ nvāgan iti athaitadapohati apaitadūha yadihābibhaḥ purā \
Having offered silently in the Anvāhāryapacana fire, then taking him, causing him to enter between the sacrificial altar and the rubbish heap, placing him to lie down with his head to the south on an armchair on a black antelope skin behind the Gārhapatya fire, fastening a garland of spikenard at his head, he covers him with an unwashed garment whose fringe is at the feet, [saying], 'This first garment has now come to you.' Then he removes this [old garment], [saying], 'Cast off that which you wore here formerly;
3.5.2.5
iṣṭāpūrtamanusaṃpaśya dakṣiṇāṃ yathā te dattaṃ bahudhā vibandhuṣu iti \
look upon the sacrificial and charitable works, the sacrificial fee, just as it was given by you in many ways among those who are not your kinsmen.'
3.5.2.6
tadasya putro vāntevāsī vā patnī vā paridadhīta \
His son or pupil or wife should put that on him.
3.5.2.7
tadu hājarasameva vasītāhaśśeṣaṃ vā \
And indeed he should wear that until it wears out, or for the remainder of the day.
3.5.2.8
atha trīñchakalānupakalpayate \
Then he prepares three splinters of wood.
3.5.2.9
atha yadi na śakalā bhavanti antarvedi parāgavahatānāṃ kṛṣṇānāṃ vrīhīṇām anvāhāryapacane trīn carūn śrapayatyekaṃ vā \
Now if there are no splinters, on the Anvāhāryapacana fire he cooks three mess-offerings of black rice that has been pounded facing away inside the sacrificial altar, or one.
3.5.2.10
gārhapatya āmikṣāṃ śrapayati \
On the Gārhapatya he cooks the curd-mixture.
3.5.2.11
athainān saṃbhārānupakalpayate dadhi ca sarpirmiśramājyaṃ codakumbhaṃ ca darbhāśca paristaraṇīyān hiraṇyaṃ cājaṃ ca śāsaṃ ceḍasūnaṃ ca kumbhīṃ ca pracyāvanīṃ sikatāśca śulbe ca tisraḥ parṇaśākhāśca \
Then he procures these materials: curd mixed with clarified butter, clarified butter, a water jar, darbha grass for strewing around, gold, a goat, a knife, a mat of cut grass, a pot, an iron vessel, sand, two cords, and three parṇa branches.
3.5.2.12
kathamu khalvenaṃ daheyuḥ iti \
"Now, how indeed should they burn him?"
3.5.2.13
yo bahuyājī syāt taṃ pūrvāgninā daheyurityetadekam \
If he was one who performed many sacrifices, they should burn him with his original fire: this is one [view].
3.5.2.14
ajasrairenaṃ daheyurityetadekam \
They should burn him with perpetually maintained fires: this is one [view].
3.5.2.15
nirmanthyairenaṃ daheyurityetadekam \
They should burn him with churned fires: this is one [view].
3.5.2.16
apivā tisra ulaparājīrādīpya yatrāgnayaḥ saṃgaccheran tatrolmukamādāya tenainaṃ daheyurityetadekamaparam \\2\\
Or having ignited three rows of reeds, taking a firebrand from where the fires meet, they should burn him with that: this is another [view]. || 2
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Linked texts (4)
- Bhāradvājaśrautasūtra — Sanskrit
- Kauṣītakagṛhyasūtra — Sanskrit
- Hiraṇyakeśiśrautasūtra (ed. Kāśīnāthaśāstrī Āgāśe, Ānandāśrama 1907, with Mahādeva's Vaijayantī) — Sanskrit
- Baudhāyanapitṛmedhasūtra — Baudhāyana, Sanskrit