Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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LIX, 6.
DUTIES OF A HOUSEHOLDER.
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(small or domestic offerings) in the fire kindled at the time of marriage 2
2. He must offer the Agnihotra (or daily oblations of clarified butter) every morning and evening (in the Tretâ fires).
3. He must offer burnt-oblations to the gods (in case the Agnihotra cannot be performed).
4. Let him offer the two Darsapurnamâsas on the days of conjunction and opposition of the sun
and moon.
5. Once in each half of the year, (at the two solstices, let him offer) the Pasubandha (animal sacrifice).
6. In autumn and summer let him offer the Âgrayana (oblation of first-fruits);
lîpaka, Sravanâkarman, and similar sacrifices,' i.e. all the sacrifices which have to be performed in the one household fire, as opposed to those for which a Tretâ or triad of sacred fires is required (see Stenzler, note on Âsv. I, 1, 2). Gautama (VIII, 18) enumerates seven Pâkayagñas, among which, however, the Vaisvadeva is not included. The Vaisvadeva is described in LXVII. Regarding the other Påkayagñas, see the Grihya-sätras. - ? Or in the fire kindled at the division of the family estate, or in the fire kindled on his becoming master of the house.' (Nand.) See Sânkh. I, 1, 3-5.
2. The three Tretâ fires have been enumerated above (XXXI, 8). Regarding the Agnihotra and the sacrifices mentioned in 4-8, see Weber, Ind. Stud. X, 328-337, 343-349, 352-396.
4. 'One who has performed the ceremony of Agnyâdhâna (kindling the sacred fires) must perform these two offerings in the Tretâ fires, one who has not done so, in the household or nuptial fire.' (Nand.) This remark applies equally to the sacrifices mentioned in 5-7.
6. If the Agrayana is offered in the household fire, it must consist of a Sthâlîpâka (cooked offering of grain).' (Nand.) See the Grihya-sûtras above cited. Nand. further explains that in autumn the first-fruits of rice, and in summer the firstlings of
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