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IV PRAPATHAKA, 3 KÂNDIKÂ, 8.
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KÂNDIKÂ 3. 1. From now onwards he has to perform the rites) wearing his sacrificial cord over his right shoulder and keeping silence.
2. With his left hand he should seize a Darbha blade and should (therewith) draw (in the middle of the three pits) a line from north to south, with (the formula), 'The Asuras have been driven away (MB. II, 3, 3.
3. Seizing, again with his left hand, a fire-brand, he should place it on the south side of the pits with (the verse), They who assuming (manifold) shapes' (ibid. 4).
4. He then calls the Fathers (to his sacrifice) with (the verse), 'Come hither, ye Fathers, who have drunk Soma' (ibid. 5).
5. He then should place pâtra vessels of water near the pits.
6. Seizing, again with his left hand, (the first) vessel, he should pour it out from right to left on the Darbha grass in the eastern pit, pronouncing his father's name, ‘N. N.! Wash thyself, and (may) those who follow thee here, and those whom thou followest, (wash themselves). To thee Svadhà !'
7. After he has touched water, (he does) the same for the other two.
8. Seizing, again with his left hand, the Darvi spoon, he should cut off one-third of the mixture (of
3, 1. Comp. I, 2, 3 seq. 2. Katyayana-Srauta-sätra IV, 1, 8. 3. Kâtyâyana-Srauta-sūtra IV, 1, 0. 6. Katyayana-Srauta-sätra IV, 1, 10. 7. See chap. 2, 36.
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