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ÂSVALAYANA-GR/HYA-SÛTRA.
Adhyâya I, KANDIKÂ 1. 1. The (rites) based on the spreading (of the three sacred fires) have been declared; we shall declare the Grihya (rites).
2. There are three (kinds of) Påkayagñas, the hutas, (i.e. the sacrifices) offered over the fire; over something that is not the fire, the prahutas; and at the feeding of Brâhmanas, those offered in the Brahman.
3. And they quote also Rikas, 'He who with a piece of wood or with an oblation, or with knowledge ("veda").'
1, 1. The spreading (vitâna or, as it is also called, vihâra or vistâra) of the sacred fires is the taking of two of the three sacrificial fires, the Ahavanîya fire and the Dakshinâgni, out of the Garhapatya fire (see, for instance, Weber's Indische Studien, IX, 216 seq.). The rites based on, or connected with the vitâna, are the rites forming the subject of the Srauta ritual, which are to be performed with the three fires.
2. Comp. Sânkhâyana-Grihya I, 5, 1; I, 10,7. The division here is somewhat different from that given by Sânkhâyana ; what Sânkhâyana calls ahuta, is here prahuta ('sacrificed up'); the prahutas of Sankhayana form here no special category; the prâsitas of Sankhâyana are the brahmani hutâs of Asvalâyana. Thus Asvalâyana has three categories, while Sankhayana (and quite in the same way Paraskara I, 4, 1) gives four. Narayana mentions as an example of prahuta sacrifices the baliharana prescribed below, I, 2, 3.
3. Rig-veda VIII, 19, 5, The mortal who with a piece of wood, or with an oblation, or with knowledge worships Agni, who with adoration (worships him) offering rich sacrifices,' &c.
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