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# Paraskaragrihyasutra 3.4.14

Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra 3.4.14

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.4.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.4.14)

niṣkramya diśa upatiṣṭhate \ ketā ca mā suketā ca purastādgopāyetāmityagnirvai ketādityaḥ suketā tau prapadye tābhyāṃ namo 'stu tau mā purastādgopāyetāmiti \14\

> He then goes out (of the house) and worships the quarters (of the horizon, the east) with (the formulas), 'May Ketâ (i.e. will?) and Suketâ (i.e. good-will?) protect me from the east.  
> 'Agni is Ketâ; the Sun is Suketâ: to them I apply; to them be adoration; may they protect me from the east.'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

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## Translations (1)

- [The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara~en-oldenberg.3.4.14) — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Pāraskaragṛhyasūtrabhāṣya (Harihara)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara!harihara.39.19.5) — Harihara (Pāraskara commentator), Sanskrit

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