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forest, and having performed the 'outspreading,' he should sacrifice the animal to Rudra.
4. One that is not gelded.
5. Or it may be) a cow, on account of the designation.
6. Having cooked the omentum, a mess of sacrificial food, and the portions cut off (of the victim), he sacrifices the omentum to Rudra, the fat to the Air, and the cut-off portions together with the mess of cooked food to Agni, Rudra, Sarva, Pasupati, Ugra, Asani, Bhava, Mahadeva, îsâna.
7. (Then follows a sacrifice to) Vanaspati. 8. (To Agni) Svishtakrit at the end.
9. Then (follows) the sprinkling round to the different quarters (of the horizon).
10. After the sprinkling has been performed, they sacrifice the Patni-samyâga offerings to Indrâni, Rudrâni, Sarvâni, Bhavâns, and Agni Grihapati.
11. The blood he offers in leaves, on (grass-) bunches, as a Bali to Rudra and to his hosts, with (the Mantras),
'The hosts, Rudra, which thou hast to the east, to them this Bali (is given). To them and to thee be adoration!
The hosts, Rudra, which thou hast to the south ... to the west ... to the north . . . upwards . . .
5. On account of the designation of the sacrifice as sûla-gava. 6. Asvalâyana, loc. cit. § 19.
9. Gayarâma: disâm vyâghâranam kartavyam iti sâtraseshah. tak ka vasayâ bhavati yathâgnishomiye.
10. On the Patni-samyâga offerings, so called because they are chiefly directed to the wives of the gods, see Hillebrandt, Neu- und Vollmondsopfer, pp. 151 seqq.
11. Ásvalâ yana, loc. cit. $ 22.
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