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GRIHYA-SUTRA OP ÂPASTAMBA.
3. On the following day he touches a cow with a Darbha blade, with the words, 'I touch thee agreeable to the Fathers.'
4. Having silently offered five Âgya oblations, and having cooked the omentum of the (cow), and performed the 'spreading under and the sprinkling over (of Agya), he sacrifices (the omentum) with the next (verse, II, 20, 28) with a Palasa leaf from the middle or the end (of the stalk).
5. (He sacrifices) boiled rice together with the meat (of the cow) with the next (verses, II, 20, 29-35),
6. Food prepared of meal with the next (verse, II, 21, 1),
7. Then the Agya oblations (indicated by the) next (Mantras, II, 21, 2-9).
8. (The rites) from the Svishtakrit down to the offering of the Pindas are the same (as at the Sraddha).
9. Some (teachers) prescribe the Pinda offering for the day after the Ashtaka.
10. Here (follows) another (way for celebrating the Ashtakâ sacrifice). He sacrifices curds with his joined hands in the same way as the cake.
11. Having left over from the meat of the (cow, see above, 3. 4) as much as is required, on the day after (the Ashtaka) (he performs) the rite of the Anvashtaka.
12. This rite has been explained in the description of the monthly Srâddha.
13. If he goes out in order to beg for something,
the regular one, without alterations :' it must be admitted that the expressions used by Hiranyak. II, 5, 14, 10 would agree well with this explanation.
4. See above, V, 13, 16.
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