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The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29)

by Hermann Oldenberg

[1886]
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      ...Let us beget offspring.
Let us acquire many sons, and may they reach old age.
Loving, bright, with genial minds may we see a hundred autumns,
may we live a hundred autumns, may we hear a hundred autumns!
--p. 282.

This is part one of two of the Sacred Books of the East translation of the Grihya Sutras. The Grihya Sutras are a collection of late Vedic-era (ca. 500 BCE) household rituals and regulations, many reflecting much more ancient traditions. It is like reading a time-travelling ethnographer's field notes in Vedic India. Included are fertility and marriage ceremonies, ritual purity laws, plus material on initiations, funerals and other rites of passage. This volume also includes a complete Sanskrit transliteration of the text of the Khadira-Grihya-Sutra, rare for the SBE series.

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Contents

Sâṅkhâyana-Grihya-Sûtra

Introduction
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Âsvalâyana-Grihya-Sûtra

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Pâraskara-Grihya-Sûtra

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Khâdira-Grihya-Sûtra

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