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navel) with its point towards the east: a belly he thus gives to it. On the two sides thereof the two milking-bowls (pinvana): two testicles he thereby gives to it, for by means of his testicles the male overflows (pinv). Behind (them he places) the post and peg: whereby he gives two thighs to it; behind (them) the two Rauhinaplates, whereby he gives two knees to it; and as to their being single plates, it is because these knees consist, as it were, of single plates (bones). Behind (them) the two poking-sticks (dhrishti), whereby he gives two feet to it, for with the feet one strikes out boldly (dhrishtam). On the left side the two mounds used in the performance, for there is their place of rest; on the right side the Mârgåltya, for there is its place of rest.
23. He then pours milk into that (chief pot), with (Vâg. S. XXXVIII, 21), 'This, O Gharma, is the contents of thy bowels,'-the contents of the bowels being food, it is food he thus puts into it; Grow thou, and fill out thereby!'in this there is nothing hidden, so to speak ;— 'and may we ourselves grow, and fill out!'-it is a blessing he thereby invokes.
24. Let him not pour in all (the milk), lest the food should turn away from the Sacrificer.-He leaves over half of it or more; and on that same afternoon he pours it to the fast-milk, and hands it to the Sacrificer: thereby he bestows food upon
That is, the sand used for them, and brought thither in vessels.
That is, the sand of the 'mound of remains' (ukkhishtakhara), see p. 489, note 3.
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