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three times with the fourth finger of his right hand with (the formula), 'Adoration to the brown-faced One. What has been damaged in thee, when the food was eaten, that I cut off from thee.'
19. And with the fourth finger and the thumb he spirts away (some part of the Madhuparka) three times.
20. He partakes of it three times with the formula), 'What is the honied, highest form of honey, and the enjoyment of food, by that honied, highest form of honey, and by that enjoyment of food may I become highest, honied, and an enjoyer of food.'
21. Or with (the verses) that contain the word 'honey,' verse by verse.
22. Let him give the remainder (of the Madhuparka) to a son or a pupil who is sitting to the north.
23. Or let him eat the whole of it (himself).
24. Or he should pour out (the remainder) to the east, at an unfrequented spot.
25. Having sipped water, he touches his bodily organs with (the formula), “May speech dwell in my mouth, breath in my nose, sight in my eyes, hearing in my ears, strength in my arms, vigour in my thighs. May my limbs be unhurt, may my body be united with my body!'
26. When the guest) has sipped water, (the host), holding a butcher's knife, says to him three times, 'A cow!'
27. He replies, 'The mother of the Rudras, the daughter of the Vasus, the sister of the Âdityas, the
21. These are the three verses, Vâg. Sanzhitâ XIII, 27-29. 22. Asvalâyana-Grihya I, 24, 25. 23. Asvalâyana l. 1. $ 27. 24. Âsvalâyana l. 1. § 26.
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