Apastambagrihyasutra 8.21: ekaviṃśaḥ khaṇḍaḥ
Āpastambagṛhyasūtra 8.21
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ekaviṃśaḥ khaṇḍaḥ
8.21.1
māsi śrāddhasyāparapakṣe yathopadeśaṃ kālāḥ \ 1 \
The times for the monthly Srâddha are in the second fortnight (of the month), as they are stated.
8.21.2
śucīnmantravato yo nigotramantrāsambandhānayugmām̐stryavarānanarthāvekṣo bhojayet \ 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.
8.21.3
annasyottarābhirjuhoti \ 3 \
He makes oblations of the food (prepared for the Brâhmanas) with the next (verses, II, 19,1-7);
8.21.4
ājyāhutīruttarāḥ \ 4 \
Then the Âgya oblations (indicated by the) next (Mantras, II, 19, 8-13).
8.21.5
etadvā viparītam \ 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).
8.21.6
sarvamuttarairabhimṛśet \ 6 \
Let him touch the whole (food) with the next (formulas, II, 19, 14-16).
8.21.7
klṛptānvā pratipūruṣam \ 7 \
Or the (single) prepared (portions of food destined) for the single Brâhmanas.
8.21.8
uttareṇa yajuṣopasparśayitvā \ 8 \
Having caused them with the next (formula, II, 20, 1) to touch (the food, he gives it to them to eat).
8.21.9
bhuktavato 'nuvrajya pradakṣiṇīkṛtya dvaidhaṃ dakṣiṇāgrāndarbhānsaṃstīrya teṣūttarairapo dattvottarairdakṣiṇāpavargānpiṇḍāndattvā pūrvavaduttarairapo dattvottarairupasthāyottarayodapātreṇa triḥ prasavyaṃ pariṣicya nyubjya pātrāṇyuttaraṃ yajuranavānaṃ tryavarārdhya māvartayitvā prokṣyapātrāṇi dvandvamabhyudāhṛtya sarvatassamavadāyottareṇa yajuṣāśeṣasya grāsavarārdhyaṃ prāśnīyāt \ yā mādhyāḥ hpaurṇamāsyā upariṣṭādvyaṣṭakā tasyāmaṣṭamī jyeṣṭhayā sampadyate tāmekāṣṭaketyācakṣate \10\
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 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 Yagus (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 Yagus (26).
8.21.11
tasyāssāyamaupakāryam \11\
In the evening before that day (he performs) the preparatory ceremony.
8.21.12
apūpaṃ catuśśarāvaṃ śrapayati \12\
He bakes a cake of four cups (of rice).
8.21.13
aṣṭākapāla ityeke \13\
(The cake is prepared) in eight dishes (like a Purodâsa), according to some (teachers).
Translations (1)
- The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, English
Commentaries (2)
- Anākulā, with Sudarśanārya's Tātparyadarśana — Haradatta (dharmasūtra commentator) & Sudarśanārya, Sanskrit
- Gṛhyatātparyadarśana — Sudarśanācārya, Sanskrit
Discussed in (4)
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English
- The Arctic Home in the Vedas — Tilak 1903, English
- The Orion, or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas — Tilak 1893, English