The Grihya-sutras
Subtitle: The Sacred Books of the East Part Thirty
Contributors: F. Max Muller (Editor); Hermann Oldenberg (Translator)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: July 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781417930289
Subjects: Religions of Indic & Oriental origin; Eastern - General; Religion; Religion - World Religions
First sentence: THE Grihya-sutra of Gobhila differs from those of Sankhayana, Asvalayana, Paraskara, Hiranyakesin in one essential point: while these texts presuppose only the same Vedic Samhitas on which also the corresponding Srautasutras are based, viz. the Rig-veda-Samhita, the Vagasaneyi-Samhita, and the Taittiriya-Samhita; the Sutra of Gobhila, on the other hand, presupposes, beside the Samhita of the Sama-veda, another collection of Mantras which evidently was composed expressly with the purpose of being used at Grihya ceremonies: this collection is preserved to us under the title of the Mantra-Brahmana, and it has been edited at Calcutta (1873), with a commentary and Bengali translation by Satyavrata Samasramin.