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1-4), verse by verse, he should look at his people with (the verse), 'As the days follow each other' (ibid. 5).
11. The young women (belonging to the house) should, with each hand separately, with their thumbs and fourth fingers, with young Darbha blades, salve their eyes with fresh butter, and throw (the Darbha blades) away, turning their faces away.
12. (The performer of the ceremony) should look at them, while they are salving themselves, with (the verse), “These women, being no widows, having noble husbands' (Rig-veda X, 18, 7).
13. With (the verse), 'Carrying stones, (the river) streams forward ; take hold of each other' (Rig-veda X, 53, 8)—the performer (of the ceremony) first should touch the stone.
14. After that, stationing himself to the northeast, while (the others) go round with the fire, with bull's dung, and with an uninterrupted stream of water, repeating the three verses, 'O waters, ye are wholesome' (Rig-veda X, 9, I seqq.), he should murmur the verse, 'These have led round the cow' (Rig-veda X, 155, 5).
15. A tawny-coloured bull should he lead roundthus they say.
16. They then sit down at a place where they intend to tarry, having put on garments that have not yet been washed.
17. (There) they sit, avoiding to sleep, till sunrise.
18. After sunrise, having murmured the hymns sacred to the sun and the auspicious hymns, having
18. See above, II, 3, 13.
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