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GRHYA-SOTRA OF ÂPASTAMBA.
Patala 8, Section 21. 1. The times for the monthly Sraddha are in the second fortnight (of the month), as they are stated.
2. Let him feed, without regard of (worldly) purposes, pure Brâhmanas, versed in the Mantras, who are not connected with himself by consanguinity or by their Gotra or by the Mantras (such as his teacher or his pupils), an odd number, at least three.
3. He makes oblations of the food (prepared for the Brâhmanas) with the next (verses, II, 19, 1-7);
4. Then the Agya oblations (indicated by the) next (Mantras, II, 19, 8-13).
5. Or invertedly (i.e. he offers Ågya with the verses referred to in Sätra 3, and food with those referred to in Satra 4).
6. Let him touch the whole (food) with the next (formulas, II, 19, 14-16).
7. Or the (single) prepared (portions of food destined) for the single Brâhmanas.
8. Having caused them with the next (formula, II, 20, 1) to touch (the food, he gives it to them to eat).
9. When they have eaten (and gone away), he goes after them, circumambulates them, turning his right side towards them, spreads out southwardpointed Darbha grass in two different layers, pours water on it with the next (formulas, II, 20, 2–7), distributes the Pindas, ending in the south, with the next (formulas, II, 20, 8–13), pours out water as before with the next (formulas, 14-19), worships (the
21, 1. Comp. Dharmasastra II, 7, 16, 8 seq.; Sacred Books, vol. ii, p. 139. Comp. Professor Bühler's remarks, vol. ii, p. xiv.
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