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IV ADHYAYA, 8 KANDIKA, 12.
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29. After they have sipped water, according to some (teachers).
30. Having strewn the food on the ground and suspended the sacrificial cord over his left shoulder, he should dismiss the Brahmanas, (saying to them), 'Say Om! Svadhâ!'
31. Or, 'So be it! Svadhâ!'
KANDIKA 8.
1. Now the spit-ox (sacrificed to Rudra).
2. In autumn or in spring, under the (Nakshatra) Ârdrâ.
3. The best of his herd,
4. (An ox) which is neither leprous nor speckled;
5. One with black spots, according to some; 6. If he likes, a black one, if its colour inclines to copper-colour.
7. He sprinkles it with water, into which he has thrown rice and barley,
8. From head to tail,
9. With (the formula), 'Grow up, agreeable to Rudra the great god.'
10. He should let it grow up. When it has cut its teeth, or when it has become a bull
II. To a quarter (of the horizon) which is sacrificially pure,
12. At a place which cannot be seen from the village,
30. They reply, 'Om! Svadhâ!'
8, 1. According to Nârâyana, the 'spit-ox' sacrifice is so called because it is offered to Rudra the spit-wearer.
5. Kalmâsho nâma krishnabindukitah. Nârâyana.
10. This Sutra should rather be divided into two. II. I. e. to the east or the north.
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