The Sacred Books of the East (THE GRIHYA-SUTRAS, PART-I: SANKHAYANA-GRIHYA-SUTRA, ASVALAYANA-GRIHYA-SUTRA, PARASKARA-GRIHYA-SUTRA, KHADIRA-GRIHYA-SUTRA)

The Grihya-Sutras, Rules of Vedic Domestic Ceremonies Part I contains Sankhyayana-Grihya-sutra, Asvalayana-Grihya-sutra, Paraskara-Ghrihya-sutra, Khadia-Grihya-sutra, 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. The Gnhya-siitra ascribed to Sankhiyana, which has been edited and translated into German in the XVth volume of the Indische Studien, is based on the first of the four Vedas, the Rig-veda in the Bishkala recension and among the Brahmana texts, on the Kaushltakn.