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# Khadiragrihyasutra 2.5

Khādiragṛhyasūtra 2.5

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.1)

godāne caulavatkalpaḥ / 1

> At the Godâna (or cutting of the beard) the  
> 5, 1. atha goalie kaulavat kalpah. rite is identical with the Kaula (cutting of the hair; see above, chap. 3, 16 seqq.).  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.2)

salomaṃ vāpayet / 2

> He should have (his beard) and the hair of his body shaven.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.3)

go 'śvāvimithunāni dakṣiṇāḥ pṛthagvarṇānām / 3

> The sacrificial fee consists of an ox and a cow, or of a pair of horses, or of sheep, for the (three) castes respectively,  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.4)

sarveṣāṃ vā gauḥ / 4

> Or of a cow for all (castes).  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.5)

ajaḥ keśapratigrahāya / 5

> A goat (is given) to the person who catches up the hair.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.6)

uktamupanayanam / 6

> The initiation (connected with the Godânakarman, &c.) has been declared.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.7)

nācariṣyantaṃ saṃvatsaram / 7

> (One should) not initiate one who does not intend to keep the vow through one year.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.8)

aniyuktaṃ tvahatam / 8

> (The use of) a garment, however, which has not yet been washed (see chap. 4, 7), is not prescribed (here),  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.9)

tathālaṅkāraḥ / 9

> Nor the adornment (chap. 4, 7).  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.10)

adhassaṃveśī / 10

> (The observances prescribed for the Godânavrata are the following:)  
> He should sleep on the ground.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.11)

amadhumāṃsāśī syāt / 11

> He should avoid eating honey and flesh.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.12)

maithunakṣurakṛtyasnānāvalekhanadantadhāvanapādadhāvanāni varjayet / 12

> He should avoid sexual intercourse, shaving, (luxurious) bathing, combing his head, and cleansing his teeth and his feet (in a luxurious way).  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.13)

nāsya kāme retasskandet / 13

> nâsya kâme reta skandet.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.14)

na goyuktamārohet / 14

> Let him not mount a chariot yoked with cows,  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.15)

na grāma upānahau / 15

> Nor (wear) shoes in the village.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.16)

mekhalādhāraṇabhaikṣacaryadaṇḍasamidādhānopasparśanaprātarabhivādā nityam / 16

> Wearing the girdle, going the rounds for alms, (carrying) a staff, putting fuel (on the fire), touching water, reverentially saluting (the teacher) in the morning: (these are the) standing (duties).  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.17)

godānavrātikādityavrataupaniṣadajyeṣṭhasāmikāssaṃvatsarāḥ / 17

> The Godâna-vrata, the Vrâtika-vrata, the Âditya-vrata, the Upanishad-vrata, and the Gyeshthasâma-vrata (last) one year (each).  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.18)

nādityavratamekeṣām / 18

> The Âditya-vrata some (do) not (undergo).  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.19)

ye carantyekavāsaso bhavanti / 19

> They who undergo it, wear one garment.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.20)

ādityaṃ ca nāntardadhate / 20

> They allow nothing to be between (themselves and) the sun.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.21)

nācāpo 'bhyupayanti / 21

> And they do not descend into water.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.22)

śakvarīṇāṃ dvādaśa nava ṣaṭtraya iti vikalpāḥ / 22

> For the Sakvarî verses, twelve, nine, six, or three (years through which the Vrata is to be kept) make up the various possibilities.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.23)

kṛṣṇavastraḥ / 23

> He (who keeps the Sâkvara-vrata) wears dark clothes.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.24)

kṛṣṇabhakṣaḥ / 24

> He eats dark food.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.25)

ācāryādhīnaḥ / 25

> He is entirely addicted to his teacher.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.26)

tiṣṭheddivā / 26

> He should stand in day-time.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.27)

āsīta naktam / 27

> He should sit at night.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.28)

saṃvatsaramekeṣāṃ pūrvaiḥ śrutāścet / 28

> According to some (teachers, the Vrata may last only) one year, if the ancestors (of the student) have learnt (the Sakvarî verses).  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.29)

upoṣitāya pariṇaddhākṣāyānugāpayet / 29

> (The teacher) should sing (those verses) to (the student) who has fasted and veiled his eyes (thinking), 'May (the teacher) not burn me (with the Sakvarî verses).'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.30)

yathā mā na pradhakṣyatīti taṃ prātarabhivīkṣayanti yānyapradhakṣyanti manyante 'po 'gniṃ vatsamādityam / 30

> In the morning they make (the student) look at such things as they expect will not burn him, viz. water, fire, a calf, the sun.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.31)

apo 'bhivyakhyamityapo jyotirabhivyakhyamityagniṃ paśūnabhivyakhyamiti vatsaṃ surabhivyakhyamityādityaṃ visṛjedvācam / 31

> At water (he should look) with (the words), 'Water have I beheld!' At fire with (the words), 'Light have I beheld!' At the calf with (the words), 'Cattle have I beheld!' At the sun with (the words), 'The sky have I beheld!'—thus he should break his silence.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.32)

gaurdakṣiṇā / 32

> A cow is the fee (for the teacher),  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.33)

kaṃso vāso rukmaśca / 33

> A brazen vessel, a garment, and a golden ornament.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.34)

anupravacanīyeṣvṛcaṃ sāma sadasaspatimiti cājyaṃ juhuyāt / 34

> At the Anupravakanîya ceremonies (see Âsvalâyana-Grihya I, 22, 12) he should sacrifice Âgya with (the two verses), 'To the Rik, to the Sâman we sacrifice' (Sâma-veda I, 369), and, 'The lord of the seat' (Sv. I, 171).  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.35)

cityayūpopasparśanakarṇakrośākṣivepaneṣu sūryābhyuditassūryābhinirmukta indriyaiśca pāpasparśaiḥ punarmāmityetābhyāmāhutiṃ juhuyāt / 35

> If he has touched a fire-altar or a sacrificial post, if he has humming in his ears, or if his eye  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.36)

ājyalipte vā samidhau / 36

> Or two pieces of wood anointed with Âgya.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [2.5.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.2.5.37)

japedvā laghuṣu japedvā laghuṣu / 37  
iti pañcamaḥ khaṇḍaḥ  
iti dvitīyaḥ paṭalaḥ

> Or he may murmur (those verses) at light (offences). Or he may murmur (those verses) at light (offences).  
> End of the Second Patala.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

## Translations (1)

- [The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira~en-oldenberg.2.5.1) — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Khādiragṛhyasūtravṛtti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira!rudraskanda.10.5.1.p1) — Rudraskanda, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (2)

- [Gobhilagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.gobhila.3.3.34) — Gobhila, Sanskrit
- [Kalpaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.post.vidhi.mantra.kalpah.4.p11) — Sanskrit

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