[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Auxiliary Sciences of the Veda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga) › [Ritual sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa) › [Manuals of the domestic ritual](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya) › [Paraskaragrihyasutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara) › 3.8 # Paraskaragrihyasutra 3.8 Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra 3.8 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.1) śūlagavaḥ \1\ > The spit-ox (sacrificed to Rudra). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.2) svargyaḥ paśavyaḥ putryo dhanyo yaśasya āyuṣyaḥ \2\ > It procures (to the sacrificer) heavenly rewards, cattle, sons, wealth, renown, long life. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.3) aupāsanamaraṇyaṃ hṛtvā vitānaṃ sādhayitvā raudraṃ paśumālabheta \3\ > Having taken the sacred domestic fire to the forest, and having performed the 'outspreading,' he should sacrifice the animal to Rudra. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.4) sāṇḍam \4\ > One that is not gelded. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.5) gaurvā śabdāt \5\ > Or (it may be) a cow, on account of the designation. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.6) vapāṃ śrapayitvā sthālīpākamavadānāni ca rudrāya vapāmantarikṣāya vasāṃ sthālīpākamiśrānyavadānāni juhotyagnaye rudrāya śarvāya paśupataye ugrāyāśanaye bhavāya mahādevāyeśānāyeti ca \6\ > Having cooked the omentum, a mess of sacrificial food, and the portions cut off (of the victim), he sacrifices the omentum to Rudra, the fat to the Air, and the cut-off portions together with the mess of cooked food to Agni, Rudra, Sarva, Pasupati, Ugra, Asani, Bhava, Mahâdeva, Îsâna. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.7) vanaspatiḥ > (Then follows a sacrifice to) Vanaspati. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.8) viṣṭakṛdante \7\ > (To Agni) Svishtakrit at the end. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.9) digvyāghāraṇam \9\ > Then (follows) the sprinkling round to the different quarters (of the horizon). > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.10) vyāghāraṇānte patnīḥ saṃyājayantīndrāṇyai rudrāṇyai śarvāṇyai bhavānyā agniṃ gṛhapatimiti \10\ > After the sprinkling has been performed, they sacrifice the Patnî-samyâga offerings to Indrânî, Rudrânî, Sarvâni, Bhavânî, and Agni Grihapati. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.11) lohitaṃ pālāśeṣu kūrceṣu rudrāyasenābhyo baliṃ harati yāste rudra purastātsenāstābhya eṣa balistābhyaste namo yāste rudra dakṣiṇataḥ senāstābhya eṣa balistābhyaste namo yāste rudra paścātsenāstābhya eṣa balistābhyaste namo yāste rudrottarataḥ senāstābhya eṣa balistābhyaste namo yāste rudropariṣṭātsenāstābhya eṣa balistābhyaste namo yāste rudrādhastātsenāstābhya eṣa balistābhyaste nama iti \11\ > The blood he offers in leaves, on (grass-) bunches, as a Bali to Rudra and to his hosts, with (the Mantras), > 'The hosts, Rudra, which thou hast to the east, to them this Bali (is given). To them and to thee be adoration! > 'The hosts, Rudra, which thou hast to the south... to the west... to the north... upwards... downwards, to them this Bali (is given). To them and to thee be adoration!' > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.12) ūvadhyaṃ lohitaliptamagnau prāsyatyadho vā nikhanati \12\ > The contents of the stomach and of the entrails, besmeared with blood, he throws into the fire or buries them in the earth. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.13) anuvātaṃ paśumavasthāpya rudrairupatiṣṭhate prathamottamābhyāṃ vā 'nuvākābhyām \13\ > Having placed the animal so that the wind blows from himself to it, he approaches it with the Rudra hymns, or with the first and last Anuvâka. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.14) naitasya paśorgrāmaṃ haranti \14\ > They do not take anything of that animal to the village. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.15) etenaiva goyajño vyākhyātaḥ \15\ > Thereby (also) the cow-sacrifice has been declared. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.16) pāyasenānarthaluptaḥ \16\ > (It is combined) with (the offering of) milk-rice; (the rites) not corresponding (to that special occasion) are omitted. > — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29) ### [3.8.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8.17) tasya tulyavayā gaurdakṣiṇā \17\ \\8\\ > The sacrificial fee at that (sacrifice) is a cow of the same age (as the victim). > — 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.3.8.1) — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Pāraskaragṛhyasūtrabhāṣya (Harihara)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara!harihara.42.17.1) — Harihara (Pāraskara commentator), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8) · Pramāṇa