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down lumps (of it) according to the ritual of the Pinda offerings.
8. (The remains of) that (cake, &c.) he serves to learned Brahmanas.
9. He gives them food and presents as at the Sraddha ceremony.
10. The known (rites) down to the pouring out of the handfuls of water (are performed here) as at the monthly (Sraddha).
Patala 5, SECTION 15. 1. On the following day he sacrifices a cow to the Fathers.
2. Having put wood on the fire and strewn southward-pointed and eastward-pointed Darbha grass around it, he sacrifices the oblation for the touching of the animal (see below), with (the verse), “This cow I touch for the Fathers; may my assembled fathers gladly accept it (which is offered) with fat and ghee, with the word svadhâ; may it satiate my fathers in the other world. Svadha ! Adoration !' Then he touches (the cow) with one (blade of) sacrificial grass and with an unforked Vapásrapant of Udumbara wood, with (the formula), 'I touch thee agreeable to the Fathers.
3. He sprinkles (the cow with water) with (the words), 'I sprinkle thee agreeable to the Fathers.'
4. When it has been sprinkled and fire has been
10. See above, chap. 12, 13.
15, 2. On the Vapásrapani, comp. Katyâyana VI, 5, 7; Asval.Gribya I, 11, 8. Comp. besides, Taitt. Samh. VI, 3, 6; Āpastamba-Srauta-sätra VII, 8, 3; 12, 5 seq.
4. The Udikyas read, as Mátridatta states, to the south of the fire.'
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