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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
24. When they lead them northwards, they lead the one for Agni first, and then the others in the proper order.
25. When they throw them down, they throw down first the one for Agni, as the southernmost; then the others after leading them round northwards in the proper order.
26. When they perform (offerings) with the omenta, they perform first with the omentum of Agni's (victim); then with those of the others in the proper order.
27. When they perform with those (chief oblations), they perform first with that to Agni; then with the others in the proper order.
THE VASATİVARI WATER.
SECOND BRAHMANA. 1. Now, when the head of the sacrifice (victim) was struck off, its sap, running, entered the waters. It is by that very sap that those waters flow; that very sap is believed to be flowing there?
2. And when he goes for the Vasat vart water, he fetches that same sap and puts it into the sacrifice, and makes the sacrifice sapful; this is why he goes for the Vasativart water.
3. He distributes it over all the Savanas (Somapressings)2 ; thereby he imbues all the pressings
1 Yatra vai yagñasya siro 'khhidyata tasya raso drutvâpah prâvisat sa esha rasa eti yâ etâ apah syandante tenaivainâ etad rasena syandamânâ manyante yah sa yagñasya rasas tam evaitad rasam syandamânam manyante, Kanva rec.
''He divides it into three parts for all the pressings,' Kânva text. See note on IV, 2, 3, 4.
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