1. 1 Now henceforth we shall explain the domestic sacrifices. 2. He should perform (the ceremonies) wearing the sacrificial cord on his left shoulder and having sipped water. 3. During the northern course of the sun, at the time of the increasing moon, on an auspicious day, before noon: this he should know as the (proper) time (for performing the ceremonies). 4. And as the prescription (is stated with regard to the time of the single ceremonies). 5. 5 All (ceremonies) are accompanied by the Anvâhârya (Srâddha).
7. 7 A student, after he has studied the Veda, when going to put the last piece of wood (on the fire),— 8. Or to seize a wife's hand (i.e. to marry her),— 9. 9 Should fetch water from a hidden place, should sweep a place which is inclined towards north-east, or which is level, and should besmear it (with cow-dung). Beginning from the centre of it he should draw a line from west to east, (another line) from south to north which touches that line at its western end, and three lines from west to east (touching the northwards-turned line at three different points) in its midst (i.e. at neither of its ends). He then should besprinkle (those lines with water). 10. In this way the Lakshana (i.e. the preparation of the place for the sacred fire) is performed everywhere. 11. With the words 'Bhûr, bhuvah, svah,' they carry the fire forward (to that place) so that they have it in front of them. 12. 12 Or after the householder has died, the chief
16. Or (he should fetch it) from the house of one who offers many sacrifices, be it a Brâhmana, or a Râganya, or a Vaisya. 17. Or he may kindle another fire by attrition and may set it up. 18. That is pure, but it does not bring prosperity. 19. He may do what he likes (of the things stated as admissible in the last Sûtras. 20. 20 When he puts (at the end of his studentship) the last piece of wood (on the fire), or when he sacrifices when going to seize the hand of a wife, that fire he should keep. 21. That becomes his (sacred) domestic fire. 22. 22 Thereby his morning oblation has been offered.
24. Before the time has come for setting the fire in a blaze, he should fetch in the evening and in the morning from a hidden place the water with which the different acts (such as sipping water) are performed. 25. Or (he should fetch water only) in the evening. 26. Or he should draw it out of a water-pot or of a barrel. 27. 27 Before sunset he should set the fire in a blaze, and sacrifice the evening oblation after sunset. 28. In the morning he should set the fire in a blaze before sunrise, and should sacrifice the morning oblation before sunrise or after it.
13:1 1, 1-4. Comp. Khâdira-Grihya I, 1, 1. 2. 5. 7. 13:5 I cannot give this translation of the words 'sarvâny evânvâhâryavanti' without expressing my doubts as to whether the commentator, whom I have followed, is right. He says: 'anu paskâd âhriyate yasmât prakritam karma iti, anu paskâd âhriyate yat prastutât (prakritât?) karmana iti kânvâhâryam nândîmukhasrâddham dakshinâ kokyate.' It is evident that the first explanation of anvâhârya as a ceremony after which the chief sacrifice follows, is inadmissible. Below, IV, 4, 3. 4, Gobhila himself defines the Anvâhârya Srâddha as a monthly ceremony (comp. Manu III, 123; Max Müller, India, p. 240); it is, consequently, different from a Srâddha accompanying each Grihya sacrifice. The Sloka which the commentary quotes from a 'grihyântara' seems to me not to remove the doubt; I think rather that it contains a speculation based on this very passage of Gobhila, taken in the sense in 14:7 The text goes on to treat of the setting up of the domestic fire. Khâdira-Grihya I, 3, 1. 14:9 Khâdira-Grihya I, 3, 1 seqq.; Grihya-samgraha I, 47 seqq.; Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenl. Gesellschaft, XXXV, 557. 14:12 I have followed in the translation of parameshthikaranam the 15:20 20, 21. Khâdira-Grihya I, 5, I. 2. Comp. also above, Sûtras 7 and 8. 15:22 I.e. in the first of the two cases mentioned in Sûtra 20, the 16:27 27, 28. Khâdira-Grihya I, 5,7-9. As to the two cases regarding the time of the morning oblation, comp. Indische Studien, X, 329.PRAPÂTHAKA I, KÂNDIKÂ 1.
Footnotes
