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GRIHYA-SUTRA OF GOBHILA.
7. If it is raw, he should sacrifice after having washed it and having let the water drop off.
8. If it consists in curds or milk or rice gruel, (he should sacrifice it) with a brazen bowl, or with the pot in which the oblations of boiled rice are prepared, or also with the (sacrificial spoon called) Sruva;
9. In the evening the first (oblation) with (the formula), ‘To Agni Svâhâ !' the second silently, in the middle and in the north-eastern part (of the fire);
10. In the morning the first (oblation) with (the formula), “To Sarya Svâhâ !' the second again silently, again in the middle and in the north-eastern part (of the fire).
11. Having put a piece of wood (on the fire), and having again sprinkled (water) 'round it, he should pour out again his joined hands full of water in the same way (as prescribed in the Satras 1-3); in the Mantras he says, 'Thou hast given thy consent' (instead of Give thy consent ').
12. Having circumambulated the fire so as to turn his right side towards it, having poured out the remains of water, and filled the vessel again, and put it in its proper place), (he may do) whatever his business is.
7-12. Khâdira-Grihya I, 5, 10–12. Prodaka in Sätra 7 is explained by pragatodaka.
9-10. Khâdira-Grihya, 1. 1. 13-15.
9. The first oblation is made in the middle, the second, sacred to Pragâpati (Sânkhâyana I, 3, 15, &c.), in the north-eastern part of the sacred fire. The tenth Sätra of course is to be understood in the same way.
12. The water is that mentioned chap. 1, 24. With regard to
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