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III PRAPÂThaka, 10 KÂNDIKÂ, 10.
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23. Having touched water, they may do whatever they like.
KÂNDIKÂ 10. 1. The Ashtaka (is a festival) sacred to the night.
2. It procures prosperity.
3. It is sacred to Agni, or to the Manes, or to Pragâpati, or to the Seasons, or to the Visve devasthus the deity (to which the Ashtaka is sacred), is investigated (by different teachers).
4. There are four Ashtakâs in (the four months of) the winter;
5. These all he should endeavour to celebrate with (offerings of) meat;
6. Thus says Kautsa.
7. (There are only) three Ashtakâs (in the winter), says Audgâhamâni,
8. And so say (also) Gautama and Värkakhandi.
9. The eighth day of the dark fortnight after the Ågrahầyani is called Apůpashtaka (i. e. Ashtakå of the cakes).
10. Having prepared grains in the way prescribed
litany, arishtabhanga. Nârâyana says: abodhy agnir (Sv. I, 73) mahi trinam (I, 192) iti dve tvâvata (I, 193) ityâdikam sarvalokaprasiddham prayugya.
10, I seg. The Ashtaka festivals; Khâdira-Grihya III, 3, 28. Comp. Sânkhâyana-Grihya III, 12, I note (S. B. E. XXIX, 102).
4, 7. As to the difference of opinion regarding the number of Ashtakâs, comp. Weber, Naxatra, second article, p. 337. Gobhila himself follows the opinion of Audgâhamâni, for he mentions only three Ashtakâs in the winter season, the first following after the Agrahayani full moon (chap. 10, 9), the second after the Taishi (10, 18), and the third after the Mâghî (IV, 4, 17). 10. See above, I, 7, 2 seq. [30]
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