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GRIHYA-SOTRA OF GOBHILA.
22. On the following day he has flour of fried barley-grains prepared, and in a new pot, covering (it with another pot), he puts it up (in his house).
23. (Of that flour) he should silently offer Balis day by day in the evening, before the sacrifice, until the Âgrahầyani day.
KÂNDIKÂ 8. 1. On the full-moon day of the month) Åsvayuga, at the Prishâtaka ceremony, a mess of boiled ricegrains with milk, sacred to Rudra, (is prepared). . 2. Of that (milk-rice) let him sacrifice, the first oblation with the verse), 'To us, O Mitra and Varuna' (Sama-veda I, 220), the second with (the verse), "Not in our offspring' (Rig-veda I, 114, 8),
3. And (eight Agya oblations) with the 'cow's names' (i.e. with the formulas), 'The lovely one art thou,' &c., with each (name) separately.
4. The rest (should be performed) according to the Sthalfpâka rite.
5. Having carried the Prishâtaka around the fire, turning his right side towards the fire), and having caused the Brâhmanas to look at it (i.e. at the Prishâtaka), he should look at it himself with the verse
23. The sacrifice is that prescribed in Sätras 18. 19, which should, as well as the offering of Balis, be daily repeated.
8, 1 seq. The Prishâtaka ceremony; comp. Khâdira-Grihya III, 3, 1 seq. A Prishâtaka is a mixture of milk or of curds with Âgya; comp. Khad. I. 1. 3; Grihya-samgraha II, 59; Sânkhâyana IV, 16, 3 note.
3. The 'cow's names' are given in the Grihya-samgraha II, 60; of the nine names given there the last is omitted at the Prishậtaka ceremony.
4. See above, chap. 7, 20 and the note.
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| SR No. | 007678 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Julius Eggeling |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1885 |
| Total Pages | 2521 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 44 MB |