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GRIHYA-SOTRAS.
"Now the flood had carried away all these creatures, and thus Manu was left there alone. Then Manu went about singing praises and toiling, wishing for offspring. And he sacrificed there also with a Påka-sacrifice. He poured clarified butter, thickened milk, whey, and curds in the water as a libation. It is then told how the goddess Ida arose out of this offering. I presume that the story of the Pâkayagña as the first offering made by Manu after the great flood, stands in a certain correlation to the idea of the introduction of the three sacrificial fires through Purúravas? Purúravas is the son of Idà; the original man Manu, who brings forth Idå through his offering, cannot have made use of a form of offering which presupposes the existence of Ida, and which moreover is based on the triad of the sacred fires introduced by Purtravas; hence Manu's offering must have been a Pâkayagña; we read in one of the Grıhya-sätras : 'All Påkayagñas are performed without Ida.
There are still other passages in the Brâhmana texts showing that the Grihya offerings were already known; I will mention a saying of Yågñavalkya's reported in the Satapatha Brahmana 3: he would not allow that the daily morning and evening offering was a common offering, but said that, in a certain measure, it was a Pâkayagña. Finally I would call attention to the offering prescribed in the last book of the Satapatha Brahmana* for the man who wishes that a learned son should be born to him ;' it is there stated that the preparation of the Agya (clarified butter) should be performed according to the rule of the Sthâlîpâka (pot-boiling),' and the way in which the offering is to
1 It is true that, as far as I know, passages expressly stating this with regard to Parûravas have not yet been pointed out in the Brahmana texts; but the words in Satapatha Brahmana XI, 5, 1, 14-17, and even in Rig-veda X, 95, 18 stand in close connection to this prominent characteristic of Puriravas in the later texts. * Saikhayana I, I, 5.
II, 3, 1, 21. • XIV, 9, 4, 18- Brihadaranyaka VI, 4, 19 (Sacred Books of the East, vol XV, p. 320). Cf. Gribya-samgraha I, 114 for the expression sthalipâkâvrità which is here used, and which has a technical force in the Grihya literature.
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