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oblations), 'This, O Varuna' (&c. ; see I, 2, 8, 16, down to the end of the Satra). Then he serves food to the Brâhmanas and causes them to say, 'An auspicious day! Hail ! Good luck!' he then performs in the known way the sacrifice of a mess of cooked food to Agni.
11. Here he gives an optional gift to his Guru: a pair of clothes, a milch cow, or a bull.
12. If he sets out on a journey, he makes the fire enter himself or the two kindling-sticks in the way that has been described in the Srauta-sūtra).
13. Or let him make it enter a piece of wood, in the same way as into the kindling-sticks.
14. A piece of Khadira wood, or of Palåsa, or of Udumbara, or of Asvattha wood
15. With one of these kinds of wood he fetches, where he turns in (on his journey), fire from the house of a Srotriya, and puts the (piece of wood) into which his fire has entered, on (that fire), with the two verses, 'He who has received the oblations' (Taitt. Samh. IV, 6, 5, 3), and 'Awake!' (IV, 7, 13, 5).
16. The way in which he sacrifices has been explained (in the Srauta-sutra).
17. If one half-monthly sacrifice has been omitted, he should have a sacrifice to (Agni) Pathikrit performed over this (fire). If two (half-monthly sacrifices), to (Agni) Vaisvânara and Pathikrit. If more than two, (the fire) has to be set up again.
18. If the fire is destroyed or lost, or if it is mixed with other fires, it has to be set up again.
12. Comp. Sânkhayana V, 1, 1.
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