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observances are imposed (on a student) or given up (by him, after having been kept through the prescribed period of time).
II. With (the verse), 'Sadasaspati' (Vâg. Samh. XXXII, 13) (the teacher) three times (sacrifices) fried grains.
12. All should repeat (that verse after him).
13. After each oblation they should each time put on the fire three pieces of Udumbara wood, fresh branches with leaves, anointed with ghee, reciting the Sâvitri.
14. And the students (should put wood on the fire) in the manner stated above.
15. With (the verse), 'Luck may bring us' (Vâg. Samh. IX, 16) they should eat the fried grains without chewing them.
16. With the verse, 'Of Dadhikrâvan' (Vâng. Samh. XXIII, 32) they should eat curds.
17. As many pupils as he wishes to obtain, so many sesamum grains should he sacrifice with a dice-board, with the Sâvitri or with the Anuvâka, 'Bright-resplending' (Vâg. Samh. XVII, 80 seqq.).
18. After they have eaten (the remainder of the sacrificial food, the teacher) should pronounce the word Om and then repeat the Sâvitrî three times, and the beginnings of the Adhyâyas to (the students) who are seated facing the west;
study of the Veda, such as the Sukriya-vrata, the Sâkvara-vrata, &c., comp. especially Sânkhâyana-Grihya II, 11. 12 and the notes there.
14. See above, chap. 4.
17. Akarshaphala kena. Ramakrishna states that this is a board of Udumbara wood, of the length of an arm, and of the shape of a serpent. (See Professor Stenzler's note.)
18. The following Sutras clearly show that this rule is intended for students of the Yagur-veda only.
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