1 1. To six persons the Arghya reception is due: to a teacher, to an officiating priest, to the father-in-law, to the king, to a friend, to a Snâtaka. 2 2-3. They should honour them (with the Arghya reception) once a year. 3. But officiating priests (they should receive) whenever they intend to perform a sacrifice. 4. Having ordered a seat to be got (for the guest), he says, 'Well, sir! sit down! We will do honour to you, sir!' 5. They get for him a couch (of grass) to sit down on, another for the feet, water for washing the feet, the Argha water, water for sipping, and the honey-mixture, i.e. curds, honey, and ghee, in a brass vessel with a brass cover. 6 6. Another person three times announces (to the guest) the couch and the other things (when they are offered to him). 7. He accepts the couch. 8 8. He sits down thereon with (the verse), 'I am the highest one among my people, as the sun among the thunder-bolts. Here I tread on whosoever infests me.' 9 9-10. With the feet (he treads) on the other (bundle of grass).
12 12. (He does so) with (the formula), 'The milk of Virâg art thou. The milk of Virâg may I obtain. (May) the milk of Padyâ Virâg (dwell) in me.' 13 13. He accepts the Arghya water with (the words), 'Waters are ye. May I obtain through you all my wishes.' 14. Pouring it out he recites over (the waters the formula), 'To the ocean I send you; go back to your source. Unhurt be our men. May my sap not be shed.' 15. He sips water with (the formula), 'Thou camest to me with glory. Unite me with lustre. Make me beloved by all creatures, the lord of cattle, unhurtful for the bodies.' 16 16. With (the formula), 'With Mitra’s' (Vâg. Samh., Kânvasâkhâ II, 3, 4) he looks at the Madhuparka. 17 17. With (the formula), 'By the impulse of the god Savitri' (Vâg. Samh. l.l.) he accepts it. 18 18. Taking it into his left hand he stirs it about
22 22. Let him give the remainder (of the Madhuparka) to a son or a pupil who is sitting to the north. 23 23. Or let him eat the whole of it (himself). 24 24. Or he should pour out (the remainder) to the east, at an unfrequented spot. 25. Having sipped water, he touches his bodily organs with (the formula), 'May speech dwell in my mouth, breath in my nose, sight in my eyes, hearing in my ears, strength in my arms, vigour in my thighs. May my limbs be unhurt, may my body be united with my body!' 26. When (the guest) has sipped water, (the host), holding a butcher's knife, says to him three times, 'A cow!' 27. He replies, 'The mother of the Rudras, the daughter of the Vasus, the sister of the Âdityas, the
28. But if he chooses to let it loose, he should say, 'My sin and N.N.'s sin has been killed. Om! Let it loose! Let it eat grass!' 29 29-30. But let the Argha not be without flesh. 30. On the occasion of a sacrifice and of a wedding let (the guest) say, 'Make it (ready).' 31 31. Even if he performs more than one Soma sacrifice during one year, let only priests who have received (from him) the Arghya reception, officiate for him, not such who have not received it; for this has been prescribed in the Sruti.
273:1 3, 1. On vaivâhya, which I have translated father-in-law,' comp. the note on Sâṅkhâyana II, 15, I. 273:2-3 2, 3. Comp. below, Sûtra 31, and Sâṅkhâyana-Grihya II, 15, 10. 273:6 Âsvalâyana-Grihya I, 24, 7. 273:8 I have translated according to the reading of Âsvalâyana (l.l. § 8), vidyutâm instead of udyatâm. 273:9-10 9, 10. There is no doubt that these Sûtras should be divided 274:12 Comp. Âsvalâyana l.l. § 22; Sâṅkhâyana III, 7, 5. 274:13 The play on words (âpas = waters, avâpnavâni = may I obtain) is untranslatable. 274:16 Âsvalâyana-Grihya I, 24, 14. 274:17 Âsvalâyana-Grihya I, 24, 15. 274:18 Âsvalâyana-Grihya l.l. Annasane instead of annâsane is simply a mistake in spelling. 275:21 These are the three verses, Vâg. Samhitâ XIII, 27-29. 275:22 Âsvalâyana-Grihya I, 24, 25. 275:23 Âsvalâyana l.l. § 27. 275:24 Âsvalâyana l.l. § 26. 276:29-30 29, 30. These Sûtras are identical with two Sûtras in the Sâṅkhâyana-Grihya II, 15, 2.3. See the note there. It seems to me inadmissible to translate § 29, as Professor Stenzler does: Der Argha darf aber nicht immer ohne Fleisch sein. 276:31 Sâṅkhâyana-Grihya II, 15, 10.
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