[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) › [Kaushitakagrihyasutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka) › 1.6 # Kaushitakagrihyasutra 1.6: atha ṣaṣṭhaḥ khaṇḍaḥ Kauṣītakagṛhyasūtra 1.6 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### atha ṣaṣṭhaḥ khaṇḍaḥ ### [1.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.6.1) vyākhyātaḥ pratiśrute homakalpaḥ prakṛtirbhūtikarmaṇām \1\ > The sacrificial procedure has been explained, as agreed, as the model for the rites that bring prosperity, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.6.2) sarvāsāṃ cājyāhutīnāṃ śākhāpaśūnāṃ carupākayajñānāṃ ca \2\ > and for all clarified butter oblations, for branch-sacrifices of cattle, and for caru cooked sacrifices. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.6.3) anāmnātamantrāsvādiṣṭadevatāsu amuṣmai svāhā iti śuddhena \3\ > When deities are indicated whose mantras are not recorded in the sacred text, \[he offers\] simply with: "To such-and-such, svāhā!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.6.4) yadi pākayajñāḥ samānakālāḥ syurāvāpasthāne pradhānānyevāvartayedānupūrvyeṇa \4\ > If cooked sacrifices occur at the same time, he should repeat only the principal offerings in order at the principal insertion place. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.6.5) ta ete aprayājā ananuyājā aniḷā anigadā asāmidhenīkāśca sarve pākayajñā bhavanti \5\ > All these cooked sacrifices have no preliminary offerings, no final offerings, no Iḷā invocations, no nigada formulas, and no kindling verses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.6.6) tadapi ślokāḥ\_ huto 'gnihotrahomena ahuto balikarmaṇā prahutaḥ pitṛkarmaṇā prāśito brāhmaṇe hutaḥ anūrdhvajñurvyūḷhajānuḥ juhuyāt sarvadā haviḥ na hi bāhyahutaṃ devāḥ pratigṛhṇanti karhicit raudraṃ ca rākṣasaṃ pitryamāsuraṃ cābhicārikam uktvā mantraṃ spṛśedāpa ālabhyātmānameva ca \\7\\ > On this point there are also these verses: / "The offered sacrifice is performed through the Agnihotra oblation; the unoffered sacrifice through the bali offering; / the cast-off sacrifice through the ancestral rite; the tasted sacrifice is that offered into a brāhmaṇa. / One should always offer the oblation without raising the knees and with the knees joined; / for the gods never accept an oblation offered outside \[the knees\]. / Having recited a formula addressed to Rudra, to the Rākṣasas, to the ancestors, to the Asuras, or for sorcery, / one should touch water and also touch oneself." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka~en-mt.1.6.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Śāṅkhāyanagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.sankhayana.1.9.19.p1) — Śāṅkhāyana, Sanskrit - [Sāṃkhyayanagṛhyasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.prayoga.grhya.samkhyayanagrhyasamgraha.1.10) — Vāsudeva, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.6) · Pramāṇa