Kaushitakagrihyasutra 5.1: prathamaḥ khaṇḍaḥ
Kauṣītakagṛhyasūtra 5.1
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prathamaḥ khaṇḍaḥ
5.1.1
jīvataḥ karmāṇi visamāpte cedabhipreyāt \1\
The rites are for a living person, if [the sacrifice] is not completed and he should die.
5.1.2
maraṇāntamekāheṣu \2\
In one-day rites, [the sacrifice] ends with death.
5.1.3
nāsti tasya samāpanam \3\
There is no completion of it.
5.1.4
pretamāhitāgniṃ jñātvājasrānagnīn kurvanti \4\
When they know that one who has set up the sacred fires is dead, they keep the fires continuously burning.
5.1.5
vihāraṃ dakṣiṇato vihṛtya \5\
Having set out the sacrificial space to the south,
5.1.6
kuśānāmevamagratā \6\
such is the orientation of the kuśa grass tips.
5.1.7
teṣvenaṃ gārhapatyasya paścāddakṣiṇāśirasaṃ nipātyāntareṇa gārhapatyāhavanīyāvevaṃ gārhapatya ājyaṃ bilāpyotpūya sruci caturgṛhītaṃ gṛhītvānvārabdhe preta āhavanīye juhoti pareyivāṃsamityetayarcā \7\
Having laid him down on them behind the gārhapatya fire with his head to the south, between the gārhapatya and āhavanīya fires, having thus melted clarified butter over the gārhapatya fire and purified it, having taken four ladlings in the sacrificial ladle, while the deceased is held in contact [by his relation], he offers into the āhavanīya fire with the verse: "Him who has departed..."
5.1.8
evaṃ gārhapatye \8\
Likewise into the gārhapatya fire;
5.1.9
evamanvāhāryapacane \9\
likewise into the anvāhāryapacana fire.
5.1.10
anvāhāryapacane caruṃ jīvataṇḍulaṃ śrapayanti \10\
Over the anvāhāryapacana fire they cook a boiled mess of grains of living plants.
5.1.11
gārhapatye maitrāvaruṇīmāmikṣām \11\
Over the gārhapatya fire, curdled milk sacred to Mitra and Varuṇa.
5.1.12
athainaṃ dakṣiṇataḥ pariśrite nipātya saṃhārya lomanakhāni pretasyāplāvyālaṅkṛtyāhatena vāsasā paridadhīta idaṃ tvā vastraṃ prathamaṃ na āgan iti \12\
Then, having laid him down inside an enclosure to the south, having caused the hair and nails of the deceased to be cut, bathed him, and adorned him, he should clothe him with an unwashed garment with: "This first garment has come to you from us."
5.1.13
athetaradapaiti apaitadūhayadihābibhaḥ purā iti \13\
Then the other [garment] is taken off with: "Take off that which you wore here before!"
5.1.14
tadasya putraḥ paridhāyājarasādvasīta iṣṭāpūrtamanusaṃpaśya dakṣiṇām̐ yathā te dattaṃ bahudhā vibandhuṣu iti \\14\\
His son, having put that on, should wear it until it wears out, [saying]: "Looking upon sacrifice and works of public welfare, and the sacrificial gift, as was given by you in various ways to non-relatives."
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Linked texts (2)
- Āgniveśyagṛhyasūtra — Agniveśa, Sanskrit
- Taittirīyāraṇyaka (complete text) — Sanskrit