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# Paraskaragrihyasutra 3.4.17

Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra 3.4.17

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.4.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.4.17)

athottarato 'svapnaśca mānavadrāṇaścottarato gopāyetāmiti candramā vā asvapno vāyuranavadrānastau prapadye tābhyāṃ namostu tau mottarato gopāyetāmiti \17\

> Then to the north: 'May the sleepless one and the not-slumbering one protect me from the north.  
> 'The Moon is the sleepless one; the Wind is the not-slumbering one; to them I apply; to them be adoration; may they protect me from the north.'  
> — 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.3.4.17) — 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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