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II PRASNA, 4 PATALA, 10 SECTION, 5.
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Prasna II, PATALA 4, Section 10. 1. On the new-moon day, in the afternoon, or on days with an odd number in the dark fortnight the monthly (Sraddha is performed).
2. Having prepared food for the Fathers and having arranged southward-pointed Darbha grass as seats (for the Brâhmanas whom he is going to invite), he invites an odd number of pure Brahmanas who are versed in the Mantras, with no deficient limbs, who are not connected with himself by consanguinity or by their Gotra or by the Mantras, (such as his teacher or his pupils).
3. In feeding them he should not look at any (worldly) purposes. · 4. Having put wood on the fire and strewn southward pointed and eastward-pointed Darbha grass around it, having prepared the Ågya in an Agya pot over which he has laid one purifier, having sprinkled water round (the fire) from right to left, and put a piece of Udumbara wood on (the fire), he sacrifices with the (spoon called) Darvi which is made of Udumbara wood.
5. Having performed the rites down to the Ågyabhaga offerings, he suspends his sacrificial cord over his right shoulder and calls the Fathers (to his sacrifice) with (the verse), “Come hither, O Fathers, friends of Soma, on your hidden, ancient paths, bestowing on us offspring and wealth and long life, a life of a hundred autumns.'
10, 1. Comp. Sänkhayana IV, 1; Asvalâyana II, 5, 10 seq. ; IV, 7; Paraskara III, 10; Gobhila IV, 3. 4. Comp. above, I, I, I, II seq. 27; 2, 7 seq.
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