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Hiranyakeshigrihyasutra 1.5.18

Hiraṇyakeśigṛhyasūtra 1.5.18

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Sanskrit

1.5.18.1

indrāgnī vaḥ prasthāpayatāmaśvināvabhirakṣatām \ bṛhaspatirvo gopālaḥ pūṣā vaḥ punarudājatu \ iti gāḥ pratiṣṭhamānā anumantrayate \ pūṣā gā anvetu naḥ \ iti ca \1\

'May Indra and Agni make you go. May the two Asvins protect you. Brihaspati is your herdsman. May Pûshan drive you back again'— this (verse) he recites over the cows when they go away (to their pasture-grounds), and (the verse), 'May Pûshan go after our cows' (Taitt. Samh. IV, 1, 11, 2).

Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30)

1.5.18.2

imā yā gāva āgamannayakṣmā bahusūvarīḥ \ nadya iva sravantu samudra iva niṣiñcantu \ iti gā āyatīḥ pratīkṣate \2\

With (the verse), 'These cows that have come hither, free from disease and prolific, may they swim (full of wealth) like rivers; may they pour out (wealth), as (rivers discharge their floods) into the ocean'—he looks at the cows, when they are coming back.

Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30)

1.5.18.3

saṃsthā stha saṃsthā vo bhūyāsthācyutā stha mā mā cyoḍhvaṃ māhaṃ bhavatībhyaścauṣīḥ \ iti saṃsthitāḥ \3\

With (the formula), 'You are a stand at rest; may I (?) become your stand at rest. You are immovable. Do not move from me. May I not move from you, the blessed ones'—(he looks at them) when they are standing still.

Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30)

1.5.18.4

ūrjā vaḥ paśyāmyūrjā mā paśyata \ iti goṣṭhagatāḥ \ sahasrapoṣaṃ vaḥ puṣyāsam \ iti ca \4\

With (the formula), 'I see you full of sap. Full of sap you shall see me'—(he looks at them) when they are gone into the stable, and with (the formula), 'May I be prosperous through your thousandfold prospering.'

Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30)

1.5.18.5

ato gavāṃ madhyegnimupasamādhāya vyāhṛtiparyantaṃ kṛtvā payasā juhoti \ uddīpyasva jātavedopaghnannirṛtiṃ mama \ paśūṃśca mahyamāvaha jīvanaṃ ca diśo diśa \ svāhā \ mā no hiṃsījjātavedo gāmaśvaṃ puruṣaṃ jagat \ abibhradagna āgahi śriyā mā paripātaya \ svāhā \ apāmidaṃ nyayanam \ namaste harase śociṣe \ iti ca \5\

Then having put wood on the fire amid the cows, and having performed the rites down to the Vyâhriti (oblations), he makes oblations of milk with (the verses),
'Blaze brightly, O Gâtavedas, driving destruction away from me. Bring me cattle and maintenance from all quarters of the heaven. Svâhâ!
'May Gâtavedas do no harm to us, to cows and horses, to men and to all that moves. Come hither, Agni, fearlessly; make me attain to welfare! Svâhâ!'—
And with (the two verses), 'This is the influx of the waters,' and 'Adoration to thee, the rapid one, the shining one' (Taitt. Samh. IV, 6, 1, 3).

Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30)

1.5.18.6

imaṃ me varuṇa \ tattvā yāmi \ tvaṃ no agne \ sa tvaṃ no agne \ tvamagne ayāsi \ prajāpate \ yadasya karmaṇotyarīricam \ iti ca \ atraike jayābhyātānānrāṣṭrabhṛta ityupajuhvati yathā purastāt \6\ \\18\\

Then follow oblations with the verses), 'This, O Varuna' (&c.; see I, 2, 8, 16, down to the end of the Sûtra).
End of the Fifth Patala.

Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30)

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