Apastambagrihyasutra 8.23: trayoviṃśaḥ khaṇḍaḥ
Āpastambagṛhyasūtra 8.23
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trayoviṃśaḥ khaṇḍaḥ
8.23.1
dakṣiṇena phalīkaraṇamuṣṭimuttarayā hutvā gatvottarāṃ japet \ 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).
8.23.2
kruddhamuttarābhyāmabhimantrayeta vikrodho bhavati \ 2 \
Over an angry person let him recite the two next (formulas, II, 22, 1. 2); then his anger will be appeased.
8.23.3
asaṃbhavepsuḥ pareṣāṃ sthūlāḍhārikājīvacūrṇāni kārayitvottarayā suptāyāssambādha upavapet \ 3 \
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.
8.23.4
siddhyarthe babhrumūtreṇa prakṣālayīta \ 4 \
For success (in the generation of children) let him wash (his wife) with the urine of a red-brown cow.
8.23.5
siddhyarthe yadasya gṛhe paṇyaṃ syāttata uttarayā juhuyāt \ 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.
8.23.6
yaṃ kāmayeta nāyaṃ macchidyeteti jīvaviṣāṇe svaṃ mūtramānīya suptamuttarābhyāṃ triḥ prasavyaṃ pariṣiñcet \ 6 \
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.
8.23.7
yena pathā dāsakarmakarāḥ palāyerantasminniṇvānyupasamādhāyottarā āhutīrjuhuyāt \ yadyenaṃ vṛkṣātphalamabhinipatedvayo vā 'bhivikṣipedavarṣatarkye vā bindurabhinipatettaduttarairyathāliṅgaṃ prakṣālayīta \ 8 \
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).
8.23.9
āgārasthūṇāvirohaṇe madhuna upaveśane kupvāṃ kapotapadadarśane 'mātyānāṃ śarīrareṣaṇe 'nyeṣu cādbhutotpāteṣvamāvāsyāyāṃ niśāyāṃ yatrāpāṃ na śṛṇuyāttadagnerupasamādhānādyājyabhāgānta uttarā āhutīrhutvā jayādi pratipadyate \ 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.
8.23.10
pariṣecanāntaṃ kṛtvā 'bhimṛtebhya uttarayā dakṣiṇato 'śmānaṃ mparidhiṃ dadhāti \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.
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
Linked texts (4)
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Hiraṇyakeśiśrautasūtra (ed. Kāśīnāthaśāstrī Āgāśe, Ānandāśrama 1907, with Mahādeva's Vaijayantī) — Sanskrit
- Saṃskāraratnamālā (Gopīnātha Dīkṣita Oka) — Gopīnātha Dīkṣita Oka 1700, Sanskrit