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I PRASNA, I PATALA, I SECTION, 22.
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according as they are required (for the ceremony which he is going to perform) :
17. A stone, a (new) garment which has not yet been washed, a skin (of an antelope, or a spotted deer, &c.), a threefold-twisted girdle of Muñga grass if he is a Brâhmana (who shall be initiated), a bowstring for a Râganya, a woollen thread for a Vaisya, a staff of Bilva or of Palâsa wood for a Brâhmana, of Nyagrodha wood for a Râganya, of Udumbara wood for a Vaisya.
18. He binds together the fuel, twenty-one pieces of wood, or as many as there are oblations to be made.
19. Together with that fuel he ties up the (three) branches of wood which are to be laid round the fire, (which should have the shape of) pegs.
20. (He gets ready, besides, the spoon called) Darvi, a bunch of grass, the Ågya pot, the pot for the Pranita water, and whatever (else) is required;
21. All (those objects) together, or (one after the other) as it happens.
22. At that time the Brahman suspends the sacrificial cord over his left shoulder, sips water, passes by the fire, on its west side, to the south side, throws away a grass blade from the Brahman's seat, touches water, and sits down with his face turned towards the fire.
17. Sänkhâyana II, 1, 15 seqq., &c. As to the stone, comp. below, I, 1, 4, 13.
18. Comp. Asvalâyana I, 10, 3, and the passages quoted in the note (vol. xxix, p. 173).
20. Regarding the bunch of grass, see below, I, 2, 6, 9. 22. Gobhila I, 6, 14 seq. Comp. the passages quoted in the
note.
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