Vaikhanasasmartasutram: The Domestic Rules and Sacred Laws of The Vaikhanasa School Belonging to The Black Yajurveda
Book Specification
| Item Code: | IDG348 |
| Author: | Translated Into English By: W. Caland |
| Publisher: | The Asiatic Society |
| Edition: | C03A3 |
| ISBN: | 8172361211 |
| Pages: | 246 |
| Cover: | Hardcover |
| Other Details | 9.5" X 6.5" |
| Weight | 540 gm |
Book Description
Foreword:
The Vaikhanasa-Sutra belonging to the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series has been edited by Dr. W. Caland and translated into English with a learned introduction. This sutra-text forms part of the Black Yajurveda tradition and derives its name probably from Vaikhanas who was its author. The work contains two types of Sutras-the Grhya and the Dharma which together may be designated as Smarta-sutra There is no doubt that both the portions have definitely one author, since the style of the Grhya and Dharma-sutras is the same. Moreover, the author himself promises to continue a topic discussed in the Grhya-portion again in the books on Dharma. The work is on the whole a small one but it contains in the main the same materials as are treated by its predecessors.
We are glad to announce that after a gap of more than seventy years, Caland's translation of the Vaikhanasa-smarta-sutra is being reprinted. Scholars of Indology would certainly be benefitted with this unique piece of work.
| Kolkata 11 March, 2002 | Manabendu Banerjee |
| Foreword | iii | |
| INTRODUCTION | ix | |
| A. | The Grhya-sutra | 1 |
| Enumeration of the "sacraments," I. 1. | 1 | |
| Rules for bathing for the four orders of religious life; the sipping of water without and with mantars, I. 2. | 3 | |
| The bath without mantras and with mantras; the occasional bath, the twilight devotion, I. 3. | 5 | |
| The tarpana or daily offering of libations of water, I. 4. | 9 | |
| Subsidiary rules for bathing; the tirthas of the hand, the manner of wearing the sacred string, I. 5. | 12 | |
| The Punyaha or ceremony of blessing, I. 6-7 | 13 | |
| The place for the fire for domestic worship, the requisites for the sacrifice, I. 8. | 16 | |
| The normal paradigma of a sacrifice, I. 9-21; the aghara, I. 9-15 | 17 | |
| The Nandimukhasraddha, II. 1-2 | 37 | |
| The Initiation into the study of the Veda, II. 3-11; the various vratas, II. 10-11 | 41 | |
| The ceremony of opening the annual course of study, II. 12. | 56 | |
| The final ritual of the study of the Veda, II. 13-17; the reception of a guest, II. 15th-16 | 58 | |
| The daily sacrifice into the breath, II. 18. | 65 | |
| The marriage, III 1-4 | 66 | |
| The rite of the fourth day, III. 5a | 72 | |
| The duties of the newly married pair, III. 5b-6. | 74 | |
| The "All-gods-sacrifice," III. 7. | 75 | |
| The ceremony performed on impregnation, III. 8. | 77 | |
| The union at the end of the period of menstruation, III. 9. | 79 | |
| The ceremony to secure conception, III. 10. | 80 | |
| The rite to ensure the birth of a male child, III. II. | 81. | |
| The parting of the hair, III. 12. | 82 | |
| The worship of Visnu, III. 13. | 82 | |
| The ceremony at birth, III 14-15 | 83 | |
| The rite at the foundation of a house. III 16-17 | 87 | |
| The getting up from childbed, III. 18. | 90 | |
| The name-giving, III. 19-20 | 91 | |
| The name-day rite, III. 20-21 | 92 | |
| The first partaking of solid food, III. 22a. | 95 | |
| The ceremony at the return from a Journey, III. 22b. | 96 | |
| The "increasing of the rice-balls," III. 22c | 97 | |
| The rite of tonsure, III. 23. | 97 | |
| The mess of boiled rice, IV. 1. | 99 | |
| The partaking of the first fruits, IV. 2. | 102 | |
| The Astaka, IV. 3-4 | 103 | |
| The Pindapitryajna, IV. 5-6 | 108 | |
| The sraddha, IV. 7. | 112 | |
| The Caitri-sacrifice, IV. 8. | 113 | |
| The Asvayuji-sacrifice, IV. 9. | 113 | |
| The daily worship of Visnu, IV. 10-12 | 114 | |
| The appeasing of the planets, IV. 13-14 | 118 | |
| Funeral rites, V. | 121 | |
| Introductory; the way of death, V. 1. | 121 | |
| The rites in the house of the deceased; the conveyance of the corpse to the cremation-ground, V. 2-3 | 124 | |
| The corps on the pyre, V. 4. | 130 | |
| The cremation, V. 5. | 133 | |
| The return from the place of cremation, etc., V. 6. | 136 | |
| The first ten days after a death has occurred, V. 7. | 139 | |
| Funeral rites of yogins, V. 8. | 140 | |
| Abnormal cases of death, V. 10. | 141 | |
| Death of little children, V. 10. | 142 | |
| Persons whose cremation is forbidden, V. II. | 143 | |
| Cremation of the effigy, V. 12. | 144 | |
| The ekoddisatasraddha, V. 13. | 144 | |
| Monthly sraddhas and sapindikarana, V. 14-15 | 147 | |
| Prayascittas VI. | 151 | |
| For the aghara, Vi. 1. | 151 | |
| For the niseka and the nandimukha, VI. 2. | 153 | |
| For the garbhadhana, etc., VI. 3. | 154 | |
| For birth and name-giving, VI. 4. | 155 | |
| For the naksatra-sacrifice, etc., VI. 5. | 156 | |
| For the sacraments in common, VI. 6. | 157 | |
| For the initiation, VI. 7-9. | 158 | |
| The renewed initiation, VI. 10. | 161 | |
| Prayascitta for the study of the Veda, VI. 11. | 162 | |
| For the marriage, VI. 12. | 163 | |
| For parivitti and parivedana, VI. 13-14 | 164 | |
| For the daily sacrifices, VI. 16. | 166 | |
| The punaradhana, VI. 16. | 167 | |
| The five "great offerings," Vi. 17. | 169 | |
| Prayascitta for the Vaisvadeva, etc., VI. 18. | 170 | |
| For the offerings of cooked food, VI. 19-20 | 171 | |
| Prayascittas for the funeral rites, VII. | 173 | |
| General remarks, VII. 1. | 173 | |
| Special rites, VII. 2-3 | 175 | |
| Evil deaths, VII. 4. | 177 | |
| The period of impurity, VII. 5-6 | 178 | |
| Prayascittas for the ekoddista, VII. 7. | 180 | |
| For the sapindikarana and the astaka, VII. 8. | 181 | |
| The pretadhana, VII. 9. | 182 | |
| B. | The Dharma-sutra | 183 |
| The different orders of religious life, VIII. 1. | 183 | |
| The Veda-student, VIII. 2. | 184 | |
| Different kinds of Veda-students, VIII. 3. | 185 | |
| The householder, VIII. 4. | 186 | |
| Different kinds of householders, VIII. 5. | 187 | |
| The hermit, VIII. 6. | 188 | |
| Different kinds of hermits, VIII. 7-8 | 189 | |
| The ascetic, VIII. 9a | 191 | |
| Different kinds of ascetics, VIII. 10-11 | 194 | |
| The entering of the order of a hermit, IX. 1-4a | 197 | |
| The mode of living and the obligations of the hermit, IX. 4b-5. | 201 | |
| The sannyasin, IX. 6-8 | 203 | |
| Rules for all the orders, IX. 9. | 206 | |
| The sipping of water, etc., IX. 10. | 207 | |
| The manner of saluting, IX. 11. | 208 | |
| Interruption of the study, IX. 12. | 209 | |
| Midday-rite, IX. 13. | 210 | |
| Rules for bathing, IX. 14. | 211 | |
| Rules for eating, IX. 14-15 | 212 | |
| General rules for a householder, X. 1. | 214 | |
| Forbidden things and acts, X. 2. | 214 | |
| Purification, X. 3-4 | 215 | |
| General rules for a hermit, X. 5. | 217 | |
| General rules for an ascetic, X. 6-7 | 218 | |
| Funeral rites for an ascetic, X. 8. | 220 | |
| The bali to Narayana, X. 9-10 | 221 | |
| Pure and mixed castes, X. 11-15 | 223 | |
| INDEXES. | 233 | |
| A. Subject matter | 233 | |
| B. Jatis | 235 | |
| C. Lexicographical | 236 | |
| D. Morphological and Syntactical | 236 | |
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