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GRIHYA-SOTRA OF GOBHILA.
6. At the end (of each ceremony) he should feed worthy (Brâhmanas) according to his ability.
7. A student, after he has studied the Veda, when going to put the last piece of wood (on the fire),
8. Or to seize a wife's hand (i.e. to marry her),
9. Should fetch water from a hidden place, should sweep a place which is inclined towards north-east, or which is level, and should besmear it (with cowdung). Beginning from the centre of it he should draw a line from west to east, (another line) from south to north which touches that line at its western end, and three lines from west to east (touching the northwards-turned line at three different points) in its midst (i.e. at neither of its ends). He then should besprinkle (those lines with water).
10. In this way the Lakshana (i. e. the preparation of the place for the sacred fire) is performed everywhere.
11. With the words 'Bhûr, bhuvah, svah,' they carry the fire forward (to that place) so that they have it in front of them.
12. Or after the householder has died, the chief
which the commentator takes it, and on the Sätras IV, 4, 3.4. Thus I rather believe that we ought to understand anvâhârya as a mess of food like that offered after the darsapůrnamâsau sacrifices to the officiating priests (Hillebrandt, Neu- und Vollmondsopfer, 133), and I propose to translate : All (sacrifices) are followed by the offering of) the Anvähârya food (to the priest).
6. Khâdira-Grihya I, 1, 3.
7. The text goes on to treat of the setting up of the domestic fire. Khâdira-Grihya I, 3, 1.
9. Khâdira-Grihya I, 3, I seqq.; Gnihya-samgraha I, 47 segg.; Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenl. Gesellschaft, XXXV, 557.
12. I have followed in the translation of parameshthikaranam the
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