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For there is a Sruti: 'After he has bathed, he should not beg. For he who bathes, drives away from himself begging.' > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [2.7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.2.7.7) varṣatyaprāvṛto vrajet ayaṃ me vajraḥ pāpmānamapahanaditi \7\ > If it rains, he shall go without an upper garment, and shall say, 'May this, my thunderbolt, drive away evil.' > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [2.7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.2.7.8) apsvātmānam nāvekṣeta \8\ > He shall not look at himself in water. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [2.7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.2.7.9) ajātalomnīṃ vipuṃsīṃ ṣaṇḍhaṃ ca nopahaset \9\ > Agâtalomnîm vipumsîm shandham ka nopahaset. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [2.7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.2.7.10) garbhiṇīṃ vijanyeti brūyāt \10\ > Let him call a pregnant woman 'viganyâ' (one who will give birth to a child); > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [2.7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.2.7.11) sakulamiti nakulam \11\ > An ichneumon (nakula), sakula; > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [2.7.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.2.7.12) bhagālamiti kapālam \12\ > A skull (kapâla), bhagâla; > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [2.7.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.2.7.13) maṇidhanuritīndradhanuḥ \13\ > A rainbow (Indra-dhanu, Indra's bow), manidhanu (the jewelled bow). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [2.7.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.2.7.14) gāṃ dhayantīṃ parasmai nācakṣīta \14\ > A cow that suckles (her calf) he should not point out to another (person). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [2.7.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.2.7.15) urvarāyāmanantarhitāyāṃ bhūmāvutsarpaṃstiṣṭhanna mūtrapurīṣe kuryāt \15\ > Let him not void urine or excrements on a ploughed field, on uncovered ground, or while rising up or standing. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [2.7.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.2.7.16) svayaṃ praśīrṇena kāṣṭhena gudaṃ pramṛjīta \16\ > He shall wipe himself with wood that has fallen off by itself. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [2.7.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.2.7.17) vikṛtaṃ vāso nācchādayīta \17\ > He should not wear a dyed garment. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [2.7.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.2.7.18) dṛḍhavrato vadhatraḥ syāt sarvata ātmānaṃ gopāyet sarveṣāṃ mitramiva śukriyamadhyeṣyamāṇaḥ \18\ \\7\\ > He should be fixed in his intentions, protect everybody's life, and be everybody's friend, as it were. > — 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.paraskara~en-oldenberg.2.7.1) — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Pāraskaragṛhyasūtrabhāṣya (Harihara)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara!harihara.25.7.1) — Harihara (Pāraskara commentator), Sanskrit ## Linked texts (4) - [Saṃskārabhāskara (Ṛṣibudha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.samskara.samskarabhaskara.2.p16.9) — Ṛṣibudha, Sanskrit - [Saṃskārabhāskara (Khaṇḍabhaṭṭa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.samskara.samskarabhaskara-khandabhatta.2.p16.9) — Khaṇḍabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit - [Saṃskārabhāskara (Siddheśvara)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.samskara.samskarabhaskara-siddhesvara.2.p16.9) — Siddheśvara 1630, Sanskrit - [Nityācārapaddhati (Vidyākara vājapeyin)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.ahnika.nityacarapaddhati-vidyakara-vajapeyin.4.p1) — Vidyākara vājapeyin, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.2.7) · Pramāṇa