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carried round it, they kill it to the west of the fire, its head being turned to the west, its feet to the south.
5. After it has been killed, he silently strengthens' its sense-organs (by touching them) with water, and silently takes out the omentum, the heart, and the kidneys.
6. With the Vapásrapant of Udumbara wood he roasts the omentum; with spits of Udumbara wood the other (parts mentioned in Satra 5) separately.
7. After he has roasted them, and has sprinkled Agya over them, and has taken them from the fire, he sprinkles water round (the fire) from right to left, puts a piece of Udumbara wood on (the fire), and sacrifices with a Darvi spoon of Udumbara wood the omentum, spreading under and sprinkling over it (Âgya), with (the verse), 'Carry the omentum, Gâtavedas, to the Fathers, where thou knowest them resting afar. May streams of fat flow to them; may their wishes with all their desires be fulfilled. Svadhâ ! Adoration !
8. He sacrifices the omentum entirely. The other parts (Satra 5) he should offer to the Brâhmanas and should feed them (with those parts of the cow).
9. When the food (for the Brâhmanas) is ready, he cuts off (the Avadanas) together from the mess of boiled rice, and from the pieces of meat, and mixing them with clarified butter he makes oblations
5. On the strengthening' of the sense-organs of an immolated victim, comp. A pastamba-Srauta-sätra VII, 18, 6 seq. Schwab, Thieropfer, 110.-On matasne, see Indische Studien, IX, 248; Schwab 127
8. Possibly the reading of the Udikyas indicated by Matridatta, vyå kritya instead of upåkritya, is correct. The translation would be. With the rest, distributing it, &c.'
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