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II, 2, 5). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.3) hutvā cānumantrayetānu tveti / 3 > After having made that oblation he should recite over (the cow the verse), 'May to thee' (l.l. 6). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.4) yavamatībhiradbhiḥ prokṣedaṣṭakāyai tvā juṣṭaṃ prokṣāmīti / 4 > Let him sprinkle it with water in which barley is, with (the formula), 'Agreeable to the Ashtakâ I sprinkle thee!' > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.5) prokṣyolmukena parihṛtya prokṣaṇīḥ pāyayet / 5 > Having sprinkled it and carried a fire-brand round it, he should give the Prokshanî water (to the cow) to drink. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.6) udaṅṅutsṛpya pratyakchirasamudakpadīṃ saṃjñapayet / 6 > Going in a northern direction (from the fire) he should kill (the cow), the head of which is turned to the west, the feet to the north. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.7) saṃjñaptāyāṃ juhuyādyatpaśuriti / 7 > After it has been killed, he should sacrifice (Âgya) with (the verse), 'If the beast' (l.l. 8). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.8) tasyāḥ patnī srotāṃsi prakṣālayet / 8 > His wife should wash the apertures of its body. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.9) pavitre antardhāyotkṛtya vapāmuddhārayet / 9 > After (the cow's body) has been opened, so that two purifiers (i.e. grass-blades) have been put under (the knife), he should have the omentum drawn out. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.10) yajñiyasya vṛkṣasya viśākhāśākhābhyāṃ parigṛhyāgnau śrapayet / 10 > Seizing it with one branch and with another forked branch of a sacrificially pure tree he should roast it. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.11) prasṛtāyāṃ viśaset / 11 > When it has ceased to drop, he should hew (the cow) to pieces. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.12) uktamupastaraṇābhighāraṇaṃ yathā sviṣṭakṛtaḥ / 12 > The 'spreading under' and sprinkling (Âgya) on (the omentum) has been described. (It is clone) as at the Svishtakrit oblation (see II, 1, 24). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.13) aṣṭakāyai svāheti juhuyāt / 13 > He should sacrifice with (the formula), 'To the Ashtakâ Svâhâ!' > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.14) sarvāṅgebhyo 'vadānānyuddhārayet / 14 > The Avadânas (or portions which have to be cut off) he should have taken from all its limbs. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.15) na savyātsakthnaḥ / 15 > Not from the left thigh and the lungs. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.16) na klomnaḥ / 16 > The left thigh he keeps (for the Anvashtakya). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.17) savyaṃ sakthi nidhāya / 17 > He should cook the Avadânas and a mess of sacrificial food, (stirring up the ones and the other) with two different pot-ladles. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.18) pṛthaṅmekṣaṇābhyāmavadānāni sthālīpākaṃ ca śrapayitvā / 18 > The juice he lets drop into a brazen vessel. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.19) kaṃse rasaṃ prasrāvya / 29 > The Avadânas he puts on branches of the Plaksha tree. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.20) plakṣaśākhāsvavadānāni kṛtvā / 20 > From each (Avadâna) he should cut off (the prescribed portions, and should put them) into a brazen vessel; > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.21) ekaikasmāt kaṃse 'vadyet / 21 > And from the mess of cooked food. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.22) sthālīpākācca / 22 > Let him take four portions or eight portions of Âgya (?) and let him sacrifice it with (the verses), 'Into Agni' (MB. II, 2, 9 seqq.). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.23) caturgṛhītamaṣṭagṛhītaṃ vātra juhuyādagnāviti / 23 > Let him make oblations out of the brazen vessel, each oblation with two of the following (verses). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.24) kaṃsātparābhirdvābhyāṃdvābhyāmekaikāmāhutim / 24 > The oblation to (Agni) Svishtakrit with the eighth (verse). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.25) sauviṣṭakṛtamaṣṭamyā / 25 > At a sacrifice to the Fathers the omentum is sacrificed with (the verse), 'Carry the omentum' (MB. II, 3, 16). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.26) vaha vapāmiti pitrye vapāhomaḥ / 26 > At one to the gods with (the verse), 'Gâtavedas!' (l.l. 17.) > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.27) jātaveda iti daivatye / 27 > If (the deity is) unknown, (in the formula for) assigning (the oblation, instead of the name of a deity the name of) that (ceremony is put)— > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.28) tadādeśamanājñāte / 28 > As (for instance), 'To the Ashtakâ.' > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.29) yathā 'ṣṭakāyā iti / 29 > An animal is the sacrificial fee at (the sacrifice of) an animal; > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.30) paśureva paśordakṣiṇā / 30 > A full vessel at (that of) a mess of cooked food. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.4.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4.31) sthālīpākasya pūrṇapātram / 31 iti caturthaḥ khaṇḍaḥ ## Translations (1) - [The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira~en-oldenberg.3.4.1) — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Khādiragṛhyasūtravṛtti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira!rudraskanda.13.3.32-2) — Rudraskanda, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.khadira.3.4) · Pramāṇa