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SUTRAS CXXXV-CXXXIX.
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original vrîhi. Further, if a choice has been allowed between vrîhi, rice, and yava, barley, and vrîhi has been chosen, and afterwards, as substitute for vrîhi, nîvåra, then, if nîvåra come to an end, and in the absence of vrîhi, when a new supply of both nîvâra and yava has been obtained, the yava is to be avoided, and the original substitute for vrihi, the nîvåra, must be retained. In most of these cases, however, a certain penance also (prâyaskitta) is required.
SUTRA CXXXVII.
If something is wanting in the measure, let him finish with the rest.
Commentary.
If it is said that a purodâsa should be as large as a horse's hoof, and there is not quite so much left, yet whatever is left should be used to finish the offering,
SUTRA CXXXVIII.
Substitution does not apply to the master, the altar-fire, the deity, the word, the act, and a prohibition.
Commentary.
The master is meant for the sacrificer himself and his wife. Their place cannot, of course, be taken by anybody else. The altar-fire is supposed to have a supernatural power, and cannot be replaced by any other fire. Nothing can take the place of the invoked deities, nor of the words used in the mantras addressed to them, nor can the sacrifice itself be replaced by any other act. Lastly, when it is said that måshas, varakas, kodravas are not fit for sacrifice, or that a man ought not to sacrifice with what should not be eaten by Aryas, nothing else can be substituted for what is thus prohibited.
SUTRA CXXXIX.
The Prakriti stops from three causes, from a corollary, from a prohibition, and from loss of purpose.
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