[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Auxiliary Sciences of the Veda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga) › [Ritual sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa) › [Manuals of the domestic ritual](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya) › [Gobhilagrihyasutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila) › 2.1 # Gobhilagrihyasutra 2.1 Gobhilagṛhyasūtra 2.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.1) puṇye nakṣatre dārān kurvīta, > Under a propitious Nakshatra let him take a wife— > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.2) lakṣaṇapraśastān kuśalena. > Who should possess the auspicious characteristics in due way. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.3) tadalābhe piṇḍān > If he can find no such (woman, he should take) earth-clods— > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.4) vedyāḥ sītāyā hradād goṣṭhāc catuṣpathād ādevanād ādahanād iriṇāt, > 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; > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.5) sarvebhyaḥ sambhāryaṃ navamam, > A ninth (earth-clod) mixed of all. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.6) samān kṛtalakṣaṇān > (These he should make) equal (and should) make marks at them. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.7) pāṇāv ādhāya kumāryā upanāmayed: ṛtam eva prathamam, ṛtam nā 'tyeti kaścana, rta iyaṃ pṛthivī śritā, sarvam idam asau bhūyād iti tasyā nāma gṛhītvai 'ṣām ekaṃ gṛhāṇe 'ti brūyāt. > 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.' > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.8) pūrveṣāṃ caturṇāṃ gṛhṇantīm upayacchet; > If she takes one of the first four (clods), he should marry her, > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.9) sambhāryam api tv eke. > And according to some (teachers) also, if (she takes) the mixed one. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.10) - klītakair yavair māṣair vā ''plutāṃ suhṛt surottamena saśarīrāṃ trir mūrdhany abhiṣiñcet kāma, veda te nāma, mado nāmā 'sī 'ti, samānayā 'mum iti patināma gṛhṇīyāt, svāhākārāntābhir, upastham uttarābhyāṃ plāvayet: > After she has been washed with Klîtaka, barley and beans, a friend should besprinkle her three times at her head, so that her whole body becomes wet, with Surâ of first quality, with (the formula), 'Kâma! I know thy name. Intoxication thou art by name,' &c. (Mantra-Brâhmana 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 Svâhâ at their end. With the two following verses he should wash her private parts. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.11) jñātikarmai 'tat. > That has to be done by (female) relatives (of the bride). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.12) - pāṇigrahaṇe purastāc chālāyā upalipte 'gnir upasamāhito bhavati. > At the wedding wood has been put on the fire to the east of the house, on a surface besmeared (with cow-dung). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.13) atha janyānām eko dhruvāṇām apāṃ kalaśaṃ pūrayitvā, sahodakumbhaḥ prāvṛto vāgyato 'greṇā 'gniṃ parikramya dakṣiṇata udaṅmukho 'vatiṣṭhate; > 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 > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.14) prājanenā 'nyaḥ. > Another person with a goad (walks in the same way and stations himself in the same place). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.15) śamīpalāśamiśrām̐ś ca lājām̐ś caturañjalimātrāñ chūrpeṇo 'pasādayanti paścād agneḥ, > They place roasted grain mixed with Samî leaves, to the amount of four handfuls, in a winnowing basket behind the fire, > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.16) dṛṣatputraṃ ca. > And an upper mill-stone. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.17) atha yasyāḥ pāṇiṃ grahīṣyan bhavati, saśiraskā sā ''plutā bhavati. > Now (the girl) whose hand he is going to seize, has been washed, (her whole body) including her head. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.18) ahatena vasanena patiḥ paridadhyād yā akṛntann ity etaya rcā, paridhatta dhatta vāsase 'ti ca. > The husband should put on her a (new) garment which has not yet been washed, with the verse, 'They who spun' (Mantra-Brâhmana I, 1, 5), and with (the verse), 'Put on her, dress her' (l.l. 6). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.19) prāvṛtāṃ yajñopavītinīm abhyudānayan japet somo 'dadad gandharvāye 'ti. > 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). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.20) paścād agneḥ saṃveṣṭitaṃ kaṭam, evaṃjātīyaṃ vā 'nyat, padā pravartayantīṃ vācayet pra me patiyānaḥ panthāḥ kalpatāṃ iti; > 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.' > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.21) svayaṃ japed ajapantyāṃ prā 'syā iti. > If she does not murmur (these words out of shame, &c.), he should murmur (them, saying), 'To her' (instead of 'To me'). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.22) barhiṣo 'ntaṃ kaṭāntaṃ prāpayet; > She should make the end of the rush-mat (Sûtra 20) reach the end of the Barhis. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.23) pūrve kaṭānte dakṣiṇataḥ pāṇigrāhasyo 'paviśati. > On the east end of the rush-mat she sits down to the right of the bridegroom. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.24) dakṣiṇena pāṇinā dakṣiṇam am̐sam anvārabdhāyāḥ ṣaḍ ājyāhutīr juhoty agnir etu prathama ity etatprabhṛtibhiḥ, > While she touches his right shoulder with her right hand, he sacrifices six oblations of Âgya with (the verse), 'May Agni go as the first,' and the following (verses) (MB. I, 1, 9-14)— > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.25) mahāvyāhṛtibhiś ca pṛthak, > And (three oblations) with the Mahâvyâhritis, one by one; > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ### [2.1.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1.26) samastābhiś caturthīm. > A fourth with (the four Mahâvyâhritis) together. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30) ## Translations (1) - [The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila~en-oldenberg.2.1.1) — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Gobhilagṛhyasūtrabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila!bhattanarayana.15.2) — Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa (Gobhila commentator), Sanskrit ## Linked texts (4) - [Chāndogyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.chandogya.1.8) — Sanskrit - [Mantrabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra.1.1.8) — Sanskrit - [Subodhinīpaddhati](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.prayoga.subodhinipaddhati.33.1-5) — Śivarāma 1615, Sanskrit - [Satkriyāsāradīpikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.gaudiya.acara.satkriyasaradipika.5.1-2.3) — Gopālakavi 1500, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.2.1) · Pramāṇa