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# Paraskaragrihyasutra 3.4.15

Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra 3.4.15

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.4.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.4.15)

atha dakṣiṇato gopāyamānaṃ ca mārakṣamāṇā ca dakṣiṇato gopāyetāmityaharvai gopāyamānaṃ rātrī rakṣamāṇā te prapadye tābhyāṃ namo 'stu te mā dakṣiṇato gopāyetāmiti \15\

> Then to the south: 'May that which protects and that which guards, protect me from the south.  
> 'The Day is that which protects; the Night is that which guards; to them I apply; to them be adoration; may they protect me from the south.'  
> — 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.3.4.15) — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Pāraskaragṛhyasūtrabhāṣya (Harihara)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara!harihara.40.6) — Harihara (Pāraskara commentator), Sanskrit

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