Many thanks to Valerie and Hans Henrich for kindly supplying these references.
Best, Howard > On Sep 7, 2022, at 2:32 AM, Valerie Roebuck <[email protected]> wrote: > > I believe in some (Theravāda) Buddhist circles, the duties of husband and > wife mentioned in the Sigālaka Sutta are adapted as wedding vows. But I > presume this is a modern practice. > > Valerie J Roebuck > Manchester, UK > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 7 Sep 2022, at 09:30, Michaels, Prof. Dr. Axel >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> wrote: >> >> >> Dear all, >> >> From my studies on marriages in Nepal, I recall that the bride doesn’t say >> anything whereas the groom recites during the pāṇigrahaṇa the following: >> >> athāsyai dakṣiṇaṃ hastam gṛhṇāti sāṅguṣṭhaṃ gṛbhṇāmi te saubhagatvāya >> hastaṃ mayā patyā jaradaṣṭir yathā saḥ, bhago 'ryamā savitā purandhir >> mahyaṃ tvā 'dur gārhapatyāya devāḥ, amo 'ham asmi sā tvaṃ sā tvam asy amo >> 'ham, sāmāham asmi ṛk tvaṃ dyaur ahaṃ pṛthivī tvaṃ tāv ehi vivahāvahai saha >> reto dadhāvahai prajāṃ prajanayāvahai putrān vindyāvahai bahūn te santu >> jaradaṣṭayaḥ saṃpriyau rociṣṇū sumanasyamānau paśyema śaradaḥ śataṃ jīvema >> śaradaḥ śataṃ śṛṇuyāma śaradaḥ śatam iti. (PāraskaraGS 1.6.3) >> >> He then seizes her right hand together with the thumb, with (the verses), “I >> seize your hand for the sake of happiness, that you may live to old age with >> me, your husband! Bhaga, Aryaman, Savitṛ, Purandhi, the gods have given you >> to me that we may rule our house.” “This am I, that are you; that are you, >> this am I. The Sāman am I, the Ṛk you; the heaven I, the earth you.” “Come! >> Let us marry. Let us unite our sperm. 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!” >> >> More details in: Niels Gutschow & Axel Michaels, Getting Married – Hindu and >> Buddhist Marriage Rituals among the Newars of Bhaktapur and Patan, Nepal. >> Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012 (with a film on DVD). >> >> Best wishes, >> Axel >> >> Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels >> Seniorprofessor - Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums der Josefine und Eduard von >> Portheim-Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Kunst >> >> Address Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) / >> Südasien-Institut der Universität Heidelberg • Vossstr. 2, Geb. 4130 • >> D-69115 Heidelberg • Telefon +49-6221-5415209 • Email >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> • >> Websites https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/krs/abteilung/michaels.html >> <https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/krs/abteilung/michaels.html>, >> https://www.hadw-bw.de/en/research/research-center/nepal-heritage-documentation-project-nhdp >> >> <https://www.hadw-bw.de/en/research/research-center/nepal-heritage-documentation-project-nhdp> >> • My latest book publications >> https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/reader/download/769/769-68-93823-1-10-20210602.pdf >> >> <https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/reader/download/769/769-68-93823-1-10-20210602.pdf>; >> https://www.amazon.de/Kultur-Geschichte-Nepals-Axel-Michaels/dp/3520212013 >> <https://www.amazon.de/Kultur-Geschichte-Nepals-Axel-Michaels/dp/3520212013>;https://www.amazon.de/Homo-Ritualis-Oxford-Ritual-Studies/dp/019026263X >> <https://www.amazon.de/Homo-Ritualis-Oxford-Ritual-Studies/dp/019026263X> >> >> >> >> >> >> From: INDOLOGY <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Timothy Lubin >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Date: Wednesday, 7. September 2022 at 04:10 >> To: Howard Resnick <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>, >> "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Ancient wedding vows >> >> Howard, >> >> How about the vivāha ceremony in the Gr̥hyasūtras? I think some of these >> could be treated as “vows” in a loose sense. >> >> KāṭhakaGS 25.28 (with many variations in other GSs): >> agnim abhidakṣiṇam ānīyehy aśmānam iti varaṃ dakṣiṇena padāśmānam >> āsthāpayati / >> “ehy aśmānam ātiṣṭhāśmeva tvaṃ sthiro bhava / >> kr̥ṇvantu viśve devā āyuṣ te śaradaḥ śatam” // >> >> Or in the mantras of the saptapadī rite, in which the groom leads the bride >> around the fire saying: >> e.g. Pāraskara 1.8.1–2: >> athaināmudīcīṃ saptapadāni prakrāmayati >> “ekamiṣe dve ūrje trīṇi rāyaspoṣāya catvāri māyobhavāya pañca paśubhyaḥ ṣaḍ >> ṛtubhyaḥ sakhe saptapadā bhava sā māmanuvratā bhava” |1| >> “viṣṇus tvānayatv” iti sarvatrānuṣajati |2| (this says to add “viṣṇus >> tvānayatu” after each of the step mantras in 1 above, as in the >> >> Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa 3.7.7.11 = 3.7.7.89 in BS ed. >> (j) “ekam iṣe viṣṇus tvānvetu >> dve ūrje viṣṇus tvānvetu >> trīṇi vratāya viṣṇus tvānvetu >> catvāri māyobhavāya viṣṇus tvānvetu >> pañca paśubhyo viṣṇus tvānvetu >> ṣaḍ rāyas poṣāya viṣṇus tvānvetu >> sapta saptabhyo hotrābhyo viṣṇus tvānvetu >> (k) sakhāyaḥ saptapadā abhūma sakhyaṃ te gameyam” >> >> Or, my favorite, the mantra to unite minds and wills (this version from the >> [Gobhila] Mantra-Brahmaṇa 1.2.21, but versions elsewhere): >> “mama vrate te hr̥dayaṃ dadhātu >> mama cittam anu cittam te astu / >> mama vācam ekamanā juṣasva >> br̥haspatis tvā niyunaktu mahyam” // >> >> Since the mantras are only in the mouths of men (in the traditional form of >> the rites), they are one-directional and patriarchal, but I imagine they >> could be recited jointly or reciprocally by both spouses to make things more >> egalitarian. >> >> Best wishes, >> Tim >> >> Timothy Lubin >> Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion, and Adjunct Professor of Law >> Head of the Law, Justice, and Society Program >> 204 Tucker Hall >> Washington and Lee University >> Lexington, Virginia 24450 >> >> https://lubin.academic.wlu.edu/ >> <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flubin.academic.wlu.edu%2F&data=04%7C01%7CLubinT%40wlu.edu%7C118620c8eb3b4049237308d886c1df18%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C0%7C637407514521888642%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=KGZJIHllkEOJZN9s48rB6YkrExmYG1owecyuPn%2FuR%2Bg%3D&reserved=0> >> >> http://wlu.academia.edu/TimothyLubin >> <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwlu.academia.edu%2FTimothyLubin&data=04%7C01%7CLubinT%40wlu.edu%7C118620c8eb3b4049237308d886c1df18%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C0%7C637407514521888642%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=etrMzh0RHx8819v5PH6KeTgeHQpeNVqeSUP62IDVn9c%3D&reserved=0> >> >> https://hcommons.org/members/lubin/ <https://hcommons.org/members/lubin/> >> https://ssrn.com/author=930949 >> <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fssrn.com%2Fauthor%3D930949&data=04%7C01%7CLubinT%40wlu.edu%7C118620c8eb3b4049237308d886c1df18%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C0%7C637407514521888642%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=F9JfpSkLrSfrImfMeIXPIjpUIVYIYcwfbvm8dqcxedE%3D&reserved=0> >> https://dharma.hypotheses.org/people/lubin-timothy >> <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdharma.hypotheses.org%2Fpeople%2Flubin-timothy&data=04%7C01%7CLubinT%40wlu.edu%7C118620c8eb3b4049237308d886c1df18%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C0%7C637407514521898628%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=sncUovdIh9wA0ezo8n2xpYpllaMKMetH86tMA6Jtg9A%3D&reserved=0> >> (h) >> >> >> From: INDOLOGY <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Howard Resnick >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 at 9:04 PM >> To: INDOLOGY <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Subject: [INDOLOGY] Ancient wedding vows >> >> Dear Scholars, >> >> Do we have ancient Sanskrit texts with actual wedding vows? Are there >> specific vows for kṣatriyas and brāhmaṇas? >> >> I’m looking for wedding vows, rather than spontaneous proposals of marriage >> like these: >> >> MBh CE CE 1.67.3 Duḥṣanta said to Śakuntalā: bhāryā me bhava, “Become my >> wife.” >> >> MBh CE 1.139.24 Hiḍimbā proposed to Bhīma, saying, among other flattering >> things, bhajamānāṃ bhajasva mām “ choose/honor/love me who am loving [you]. >> >> Again, apart from such spontaneous proposals, are there actual ancient vows >> at weddings? >> >> Many thanks for any help with this. >> >> Best wishes, >> Howard >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> <https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology>
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