Digital Rare Book:
The Grihya-sutras
Rules of Vedic domestic ceremonies
Translated by Hermann Oldenberg
Published by Clarendon Press in Oxford - 1886

Grihya-sutra, in Hinduism, any of a number of manuals detailing the domestic (grihya) religious ceremonies performed by both male and female householders over the fire. The Grihya-sutras, together with the Shrauta-sutras (which deal with the grand Vedic sacrifices) and the Dharma-sutras (which deal with rules of conduct), make up the Kalpa-sutras—collections of texts that emerged within the different Vedic schools. The Grihya-sutras describe the ceremonies (samskaras) that mark each stage of an individual’s life, from the moment of conception to the final death rites; the five daily sacrifices (mahayajna); seasonal ceremonies; and those observed on special occasions, such as house building or cattle breeding.
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Hermann Oldenberg (October 31, 1854, Hamburg – March 18, 1920, Göttingen) was a German scholar of Indology, and Professor at Kiel (1898) and Göttingen (1908). The two volumes of the (Vedic) Grihya-sutras and two volumes of Vedic hymns on his own account, in the monumental Sacred Books of the East series edited by Max Müller. With his Prolegomena (1888), Oldenberg laid the groundwork to the philological study of the Rigveda.
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Gouache painting on paper. The painting depicts a Hindu wedding taking place in a large pandal covered with matting, with a smaller pandal placed inside. The bride and groom sit opposite each other within the smaller structure and are surrounded by women. Outside the pandal, on a carpeted area, are six Brahmins and two turbans men facing fifteen other men.
Company School - 1820 (circa)
Andhra Pradesh

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