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mixture, a cow: every one of these things they announce three times (to the guest).
8. With (the verse), 'I am the highest one among my people, as the sun among the thunderbolts. Here I tread on him whosoever infests me'-he should sit down on the seat (made of) northward-pointed (grass).
9. Or (he should do so) after he has trodden on it.
10. He should make (his host) wash his feet.
11. The right foot he should stretch out first to a Brâhmana,
12. The left to a Sûdra.
13. When his feet have been washed, he receives the Arghya water in the hollow of his joined hands and then sips the water destined thereto, with (the formula), 'Thou art the first layer for Ambrosia.'
14. He looks at the Madhuparka when it is brought to him, with (the formula), ' I look at thee with Mitra's eye.
15. He accepts it with his joined hands with (the formula), By the impulse of the god Savitri, with the arms of the two Asvins, with the hands of Pashan I accept thee.' He then takes it into his left hand, looks at it with the three verses, 'Honey the winds to the righteous one' (Rig-veda I, 90, 6 seqq.), stirs it about three times from left to right with the fourth finger and the thumb, and wipes (his fingers) with (the formula), 'Nay the Vasus eat thee with the Gâyatrî metre'—to the east ;
16. With (the formula), May the Rudras eat thee with the Trishtubh metre'-to the south;
17. With (the formula), “May the Adityas eat thee with the Gagatỉ metre'-to the west ;
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