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house building (śālā)

The raising and occupation of a dwelling as a ritual act, addressed to the hut in the second person; the building, not the house as a place.

Partial coverageReal evidence exists, and this layer is incomplete.

The shape of the rite

Each row is one relationship class the graph stores for this rite. An empty row states which layer is missing.

Performed by

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Offerings made

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Substances used

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Objects used

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Deities invoked

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Undertaken for

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Stated order

What the Samhita text numbers in its own words. Three such steps exist in the whole corpus, all on the soma pressing.

Not yet modelledThis is the Samhita-numbered layer, and 3 such edges exist in the entire graph, all on the soma pressing, whose morning, midday and third libations the text itself numbers. No other rite in this corpus states an order in its own words and none was invented for it -- elaborate procedure is Brahmana and Sutra material. Read `procedure` before concluding the rite has no recorded sequence: an empty `steps` is an unbuilt Samhita layer, not an unstructured rite.

Procedure the sutras print

A different claim from the order above, and a different source. Each work below numbers its own sequence independently, so these are located steps rather than one procedure — they do not run together.

Scope note

8 source work(s) each record their own sequence for this rite, numbered from 1 independently, so the groups do not compose into one procedure. 16 of the 20 steps listed state a position without printing the run it falls in. The evidence is Srautasutra and Grhyasutra, never a Samhita passage, and it is a different claim from `steps` -- which is why it is a different field. The cited works have no node in this graph.

KausSgrhyasutra · AV_SAU · 6 steps

  1. KausS 1.8.23

    ihaiva dhruvām eha yātu yamo mṛtyuḥ satyaṃ bṛhat ityanuvāko vāstoṣpatīyāni

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  2. KausS 5.7.4

    vāstoṣpatīyaiḥ kulijakṛṣṭe dakṣiṇato 'gneḥ saṃbhāram āharati

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  3. KausS 5.7.5

    vāstoṣpatyādīni mahāśāntim āvapate

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  4. KausS 5.7.13

    vāstoṣpate pratijānīhy asmān svāveśo anamīvo na edhi / yat tvemahe prati nas tajjuṣasva catuṣpado dvipada āveśayeha / anamīvo vāstoṣpate viśvā rūpāṇy āviśan / sakhā suśeva edhi naḥ / iti vāstoṣpataye kṣīraudanasya juhoti

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  5. KausS 9.6.2

    agnaya indrāgnibhyāṃ vāstoṣpataye prajāpataye 'numataya iti hutvā

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  6. KausS 13.28.9

    uttarārdhe saṃsthāpya vāstoṣpatyair juhuyāt

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

KausGSgrhyasutra · RV_SAK · 3 steps

  1. KausGS 3.3.5

    mahāvyāhṛtayaś catasraḥ / vāstoṣpate iti catasraḥ / vāstoṣpate dhruvā sthūṇā sauviṣṭakṛtī daśamī sthālīpākasya rātrau

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  2. KausGS 3.3.8

    uddharen maṇikapratiṣṭhāpanaṃ gṛhapraveśanaṃ ca

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  3. KausGS 3.10.5

    etābhyaś caiva devatābhyo namo brahmaṇe brāhmaṇebhyaś ca vāstoṣpataye namaḥ

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

SankhGSgrhyasutra · RV_SAK · 3 steps

  1. SankhGS 2.14.5

    atha vāstumadhye baliṃ hared etābhyaś caiva devatābhyo namo brahmaṇe brāhmaṇebhyaś ca vāstoṣpate pratijānīhy asmān iti vāstumadhye vāstoṣpataye ca

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  2. SankhGS 3.4.1

    vāstoṣpatīye karmaṇi

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  3. SankhGS 3.4.8

    mahāvyāhṛtayaś catasro vāstoṣpata iti tisro 'mīvahā vāstoṣpate vāstoṣpate dhruvā sthūṇā sauviṣṭakṛtī daśamī sthālīpākasya rātrau

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

GobhGSgrhyasutra · SV_KAU · 2 steps

  1. GobhGS 3.9.6

    jātaśilāsu maṇikaṃ pratiṣṭhāpayati vāstoṣpata ity etena dvikena sarcena

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  2. GobhGS 4.7.33

    vāstoṣpata iti prathamā

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

ParGSgrhyasutra · YV_VSM · 2 steps

  1. ParGS 3.4.1

    athātaḥ śālākarma

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

  2. ParGS 3.4.7

    ājyaṃ saṃskṛtyeha ratir ity ājyāhutī hutvāparā juhoti / vāstoṣpate pratijānīhy asmān svāveśo anamīvo bhavā naḥ / yat tvemahe prati tan no juṣasva śaṃ no bhava dvipade śaṃ catuṣpade svāhā / vāstoṣpate prataraṇo na edhi gayasphāno gobhir aśvebhir indo / ajarāsaste sakhye syāma piteva putrānprati tan no juṣasva śaṃ no bhava dvipade śaṃ catuṣpade svāhā / vāstoṣpate śagmayā saṃsadā te sakṣīmahi raṇvayā gātumatyā / pāhi kṣema uta yoge varaṃ no yūyaṃ pāta svastibhiḥ sadā naḥ svāhā / amīvahā vāstoṣpate viśvā rūpāṇyāviśan / sakhā suśeva edhi naḥ svāheti

    The source states where this step falls without printing the run it falls in.

SankhSSsrautasutra · RV_SAK · 2 steps

  1. SankhSS 2.16.1

    vāstoṣpatīyaṃ dhrauvye daśarātrāvarārdhe saṃprayāteṣu

  2. SankhSS 2.16.2

    agniṣṭhasya dakṣiṇe yukta upohya cīvaraṃ vāstoṣpate pratijānīhīty anūcya vāstoṣpate śagmayeti yajati

AsvGSgrhyasutra · RV_SAK · 1 step

  1. AsvGS 2.9.9

    madhye 'gārasya sthālīpākaṃ śrapayitvā vāstoṣpate pratijānīhyasmān iti catasṛbhiḥ pratyṛcaṃ hutvānnaṃ saṃskṛtya brāhmaṇān bhojayitvā śivaṃ vāstu śivaṃ vāstv iti vācayīta

VaitSsrautasutra · AV_SAU · 1 step

  1. VaitS 2.1.10

    uṣasi śāntyudakaṃ karoti cityādibhir ātharvaṇībhiḥ kapurviparvārodākāvṛkkāvatīnāḍānirdahantībhir āṅgirasībhiś ca / cātanair mātṛnāmabhir vāstoṣpatyair anuyojitaiḥ

Described in

0 passages carry a describes edge for this rite, against 30 that name it. Naming is weaker than describing.

What this ritual model covers

AN INVENTORY OF 103 RITES, NOT A TAXONOMY. The Ritual class holds 103 nodes against a corpus that names considerably more, so a rank in this list is a rank within 103 and says nothing about Vedic ritual as a whole. Two step layers exist and they are not interchangeable. The Samhita layer holds 3 numbered steps in the entire graph, all on the soma pressing, whose morning, midday and third libations the text itself numbers. The procedural layer holds 3,121 steps over 103 rites, read out of Srautasutras and Grhyasutras rather than Samhita passages, and 94% of them state a position without printing the run it falls in -- so a procedure list is not a complete procedure. All 80 apparatus edges are TIER_D curation, and a rite's 'purpose' is what a curator says it is for, not a purpose clause quoted from a passage.

How this rite was modelled4

  • AN INVENTORY OF 103 RITES, NOT A TAXONOMY. The Ritual class holds 103 nodes against a corpus that names considerably more, so a rank in this list is a rank within 103 and says nothing about Vedic ritual as a whole. Two step layers exist and they are not interchangeable. The Samhita layer holds 3 numbered steps in the entire graph, all on the soma pressing, whose morning, midday and third libations the text itself numbers. The procedural layer holds 3,121 steps over 103 rites, read out of Srautasutras and Grhyasutras rather than Samhita passages, and 94% of them state a position without printing the run it falls in -- so a procedure list is not a complete procedure. All 80 apparatus edges are TIER_D curation, and a rite's 'purpose' is what a curator says it is for, not a purpose clause quoted from a passage.

    measured

  • Complete, and the size of the result is the finding: 3 steps, on 1 of the 8 rites. order_basis = 'SOURCE_STATED_ORDINAL' because the soma pressings are named morning, midday and third in the text itself; no other rite in this corpus states an order, and none was invented for it. Elaborate procedure is Brahmana and Sutra material, so a query about ritual dependency structure is answerable here only in this one instance, and question 39 is otherwise not answerable from the Samhitas.

    ritual_step_sequence

  • Complete: all 8 rites and all 71 edges. Every edge is TIER_D -- the project's judgement that a passage describes a rite, not a statement the passage makes about itself -- and the volume is the honest measure of how much procedure the Samhitas carry: 71 passages out of 22,537. `examples` is capped at 6 per row and `passages` gives the true total beside it. The Yajurvedic majority in several rows is real: the YV is the liturgical collection.

    rituals_described_in_passages

  • The Anukramani names a 'devata' for every hymn, and 57 of the 214 are not gods: 22 human patrons and seers (Vasistha, Visvamitra, Brbu the carpenter), 7 danastuti labels naming the gift rather than a recipient ('praise of the gift of Sudas son of Pijavana'), and 28 abstractions ruled not to name an addressee, each with its reason recorded. This response excludes all 57 and KEEPS the 5 labels ruled UNDECIDED (Atma, Annam, Brahma, Rati, Saci), because an undecided label removed is a decision made by default. Ask with population=all_ascriptions to see the Anukramani's slot as it stands, with each row's ruling stated.

    deity_population_contract