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GRIHYA-SOTRA OF GOBHILA.
for Sthållpâkas, he cooks (those grains and prepares thus) a karu.
11. And (besides he prepares) eight cakes, without turning them over in the dish (in which he bakes them);
12. (Each) in one dish ; 13. Without Mantras, according to Audgâhamâni ;
14. Of the size of the (cakes) sacred to Tryambaka.
15. After he has baked them, he should pour (Ågya) on them, should take them from the fire towards the north, and should pour (Ägya) on them again.
16. In the way prescribed for Sthâlipâkas he cuts off (the prescribed portions) from the mess of boiled grains and from the cakes, and sacrifices with the words), 'To the Ashtaka Svâhâ !'
17. The rest (should be performed) according to the Sthålipaka rite.
18. (At the second Ashtaka, on) the eighth day after the full-moon day of Taisha, a cow (is sacrificed).
19. Shortly before the time of junction (of day and night, i. e. before the morning twilight) he should place that (cow) to the east of the fire, and when (that time) has come, he should sacrifice (Agya) with
11. Grıhya-samgraha II, 71: prithakkapâlân kurvîta apůpân ashtakavidhau.
14. Regarding the Traiyambaka cakes, comp. Katyâyana SrautasQtra V, 10, 1 seq.; Vaitâna-sätra IX, 18, &c.
16. See above, I, 8, 5 seq. 17. Comp. chap. 7, 20 note.
18. With the following paragraphs the Srauta rites of the animal sacrifice should be compared ; see J. Schwab, Das altindische Thieropfer (Erlangen, 1886).
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