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ÂPASTAMBA'S YAGÑA-PARIBHÂSHA-SOTRAS.
Commentary. The Satras, in describing the performance of certain sacrifices, treat some of them in full detail. These are called prakriti. Prakriyante-smin dharma iti prakaranam prakritih. They form the type of other sacrifices, which are therefore looked upon as mere modifications, vikriti, and in describing them those points only are fully described in which they differ from their prakriti. A sacrifice which is a vikriti, may again become the prakriti of another sacrifice. This system is no doubt compendious, but it is not free from difficulty, and, in some cases, from uncertainty. It shows how much system there is in the Indian sacrifices, and how fully and minutely that system must have been elaborated, before it assumed that form in which we find it in the Brahmanas and Satras. It must not be supposed that the sacrifices which serve as prakriti, are therefore historically the most ancient.
SOTRA CXV. It is also the norm for the Agnishomiya Pasu, the animal sacrifice for Agni-Shomau.
SOTRA CXVI. And this is the norm for the Savaniya.
SOTRA CXVII. And the Savaniya is the norm for the Aikadasinas.
SOTRA CXVIII. And the Aikâda sinas are the norm for the Pasuganas.
Commentary. The rules for the Pasuganas are therefore to be taken over from the Aikâdasinas, the Savaniya, the Agnishomîya-pasu, and the Darsa-parna masa, so far as they have been modified in each particular case, and are
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