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KHÂDIRA-GRIHYA-SUTRA.
6. The service (at that sacred domestic fire) begins with an evening oblation.
7. After (the fire) has been set in a blaze before sunset or sunrise
8. The sacrifice (is performed) after sunset, 9. (And) after sunrise or before sunrise.
10. He should with his hand make oblations of food which is fit for sacrifice, having washed it, if it is raw.
11. If it consists in curds or milk, with a brazen
bowl,
12. Or with the pot in which the oblations of cooked rice are prepared.
13. (In the evening the first oblation with the formula), 'To Agni Svâhâ !' in the middle (of the sacred fire);
14. The second (oblation) silently in the northeastern part (of the fire).
15. In the morning the first (oblation with the formula), 'To Sarya (Svâhâ)!'
16. The wiping round the fire and the similar acts, with the exception of the sprinkling (of water) round (the fire), are omitted here.
17. Some (teachers say) that his wife may offer these oblations, for the wife is (as it were) the house, and that fire is the domestic fire.
6. sayamâhutyupakramam parikaranam. 7. prâg astamayodayâbhyam prâdushkritya. 8. sstam ite homa. 9. udite kânudite vâ. 1o. havishyasyânna syâkritam ket prakshâlya guhuyât pâninâ. II. dadhi ket payo vâ kamsena. 12. karusthâlyâ vâ. 13. sgnaye svaheti madhye. 14. tûshnim prâgudîkîm uttarâm. 15. Sâryâyeti prâtah pârvâm. 16. nâtra parisamûhanâdîni paryukshanavargam. 17. patnî guhuyâd ity eke grihâh patnî grihyo sgnir esha iti.
10-19=1, 3, 6–18 (16 deest).
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