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18. With (the formula), ‘May the Visve devâs eat thee with the Anushtubh metre'-to the north.
19. With (the formula), 'To the beings thee'-he three times takes (some of the Madhuparka substance) out of the middle of it.
20. With (the formula), 'The milk of Virág art thou '-he should partake thereof the first time,
21. With, The milk of Virág may I obtain '—the second time,
22. With, 'In me (may) the milk of Padyâ Virag (dwell) '—the third time.
23. (He should) not (eat) the whole (Madhuparka). 24. He should not satiate himself.
25. To a Brahmana, to the north, he should give the remainder.
26. If that cannot be done, (he should throw it) into water.
27. Or (he may eat) the whole (Madhuparka).
28. He then makes a rinsing of his mouth follow (on the eating of the Madhuparka) with the water destined thereto, with (the formula), “Thou art the covering of Ambrosia.'
29. With (the formula), “Truth! Glory! Fortune! May fortune rest on me!'-a second time.
30. When he has sipped water, they announce to him the cow.
31. Having murmured, 'Destroyed is my sin; my sin is destroyed,' (he says,) 'Om, do it,' if he chooses to have her killed.
32. Having murmured, “The mother of the Rudras, the daughter of the Vasus' (Rig-veda VIII,
22. On Padyâ Virág, see the note on Sânkhâyana-Grihya III, 7,5. 28. Comp. above, Sûtra 13.
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