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ÂSVALAYANA-GRIHYA-SUTRA.
15. The eighth (oblation) is that to (Agni) Svishtakrit.
16. He should give to the Brâhmanas to eat: this has been said.
KANDIKÂ 5. 1. On the following day the Anvashtakya (i. e. the ceremony following the Ashtakâ, is performed).
2. Having prepared (a portion) of that same meat, having established the fire on a surface inclined towards the south, having fenced it in, and made a door on the north side of the enclosure, having strewn round (the fire) three times sacrificial grass with its roots, without tossing it, turning the left side towards the fire, he should put down the things to be offered, boiled rice, boiled rice with sesamum seeds, rice-milk, meal-pap with curds, and meal-pap with honey.
3. (The ceremony should be performed) according to the ritual of the Pindapitriyagña.
4. Having sacrificed (of those sorts of food) with the exception of the meal-pap with honey, let him give (lumps of those substances) to the Fathers.
5. And to (their) wives, with the addition of rum and the scum of boiled rice.
6. Some (place the lumps to be offered) into pits, into two or into six,
16. See above, chap. 3, 13.
5, 2. The meat is that of the animal killed on the Ashtakâ day; see chap. 4, 13.
3. This ritual is given in the Srauta-sútra II, 6 seq.
4. He sacrifices the two oblations prescribed in the Srauta-sútra II, 6, 12, to Soma pitrimat and to Agni kavyavahana.
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