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sacrificial posts. Now I got planted, outside the city of Vaṇarasi, many groves of mangoes and so forth, down to ) groves of flowers. It is good for me, therefore now, to invite to-morrow, when the sun will be burning bright (and so forth ), my relatives ( and so forth), after having got prepared many copper pots along with an iron frying pan and an incense-stand and having got prepared abundant food, drink, eatables and articles of taste and having done so to honour those relatives and so forth) by that abundant food and drinks e tc, and then, having appointed my eldest son as the head of my family, and having asked the permission of those relatives etc. and having taken those copper pots including an iron frying pan and an incense-stand, to get myself initiated at the hands of those 'Disapokhhiyas'--a class of ascetics who sprinkle water on the ground to purify it, from among those Vanaprastha asceties who reside on the bank of the river Ganges viz:- Hottiyã- those who offer Hotra sacrifices, Pottiya-those who carry Potra gar ments, Kottiya-those who sleep on the ground, Jannaîs the sacrificers, Sadhhais-those who believe in the efficacy of Shradha, Ghalais (of uncertain meaning), Humbauṭṭha, Dantu
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