Pramāṇa · Search · About · API

Paraskaragrihyasutra 3.7

Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra 3.7

Language
Sanskrit

3.7.1

utūlaparimehaḥ \1\

(Now will be declared) the making water round about a servant who is disposed to run away.

Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

3.7.2

svapato jīvaviṣāṇe svaṃ mūtramāsicyāpasalavi triḥ pariṣiñcanparīyāt \ pari tvā gireraha parimātuḥ parisvasuḥ paripitrośca bhrātrośca sakhyebhyo visṛjāmyaham \ utūla parimīḍho 'si parimīḍhaḥ kva gamiṣyasīti \2\

While (the servant) is sleeping, he should discharge his urine into the horn of a living animal, and should three times walk round him, turning his left side towards him, and sprinkle (the urine) round him, with (the verse), 'From the mountain (on which thou art born), from thy mother, from thy sister, from thy parents and thy brothers, from thy friends I sever thee.
'Run-away servant, I have made water round thee. Having been watered round, where wilt thou go?'

Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

3.7.3

sa yadi bhramyāddāvāgnimupasamādhāya ghṛtāktāni kuśeṇḍvāni juhuyāt \ pari tvā hvalano hvalanirvṛttendravīrudhaḥ \ indrapāśena sitvā mahyaṃ muktvā 'thā nyamānayediti \3\

Should he run away (nevertheless, his master) should establish a fire that has been taken from a wood that is on fire, and should sacrifice (in that fire) Kusa plates (used for protecting the hands when holding a hot sacrificial pan) that have been anointed with ghee, with (the formula), 'May the stumbler stumble round thee,.... may he tie thee with Indra's fetter, loosen thee for me, and may he lead another one up (to me).'

Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

3.7.4

kṣemyohyeva bhavati \4\ \\7\\

Then he will quietly remain (in his master's house).

Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

Translations (1)