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ÂPASTAMBA.
I, I, 4.
a part of the alms into the fire and eat (the remainder).
43. Alms are declared to be sacrificial food. In regard to them the teacher (holds the position which) a deity (holds in regard to food offered at a sacrifice).
44. And the teacher holds also the place which) the Ahavaniya fire occupies (at a sacrifice, because a portion of the alms is offered in the fire of his stomach).
45. To him (the teacher) the (student) shall offer (a portion of the alms),
al lood.
Prasna I, Patala 1, KHANDA 4. 1. And (having done so) eat what is left.
2. For this (remnant of food) is certainly a remnant of sacrificial food.
3. If he obtains other things (besides food, such as cattle or fuel, and gives them to his teacher) as he obtains them, then those things hold the place of) rewards (given to priests for the performance of a sacrifice).
4. This is the sacrifice to be performed daily by a religious student.
5. And (the teacher) shall not give him anything that is forbidden by the revealed texts, (not even as) leavings,
6. Such as pungent condiments, salt, honey, or meat (and the like).
248, and the passages collected from the Brâhmanas, by Prof. Weber, Ind. Stud. IX, 39.
44. Manu II, 231. 4. 6. See above, I, 1, 2, 23.
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