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SÛTRAS CXL-CXLVI.
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Commentary. Among the Nikâyi sacrifices, lit. those which consist of a number, all having the same name, but different rewards, the first is the prakriti of the subsequent ones. The commentator calls them så dyaskra &c., and mentions as the first the Agnish toma. See Sätra CXLVI, and Weber, Ind. Stud. XIII, p. 218.
SOTRA CXLIV. At the Agnish toma there is the Uttara-vedi.
Commentary. The commentator explains this by saying that at the Soma sacrifices, i.e. at the Agnishtoma, Ukthya, Shodasin, and Atirâtra, the fire is carried from the Åhavaniya to the Uttara-vedi, which is also called the Soma altar.
SOTRA CXLV. The fire is valid for the successive sacrifices.
Commentary. This fire refers to the fire on the Uttara-vedi, mentioned in the preceding Sútra, and the object of the Satra seems to be to include the act of lighting the fire on the Uttara-vedi in the Prakriti, though properly speaking it does not form part of the Agnishtoma. But I cannot quite understand the argument of the commentator.
SOTRA CXLVI. This does not apply to the Sadyaskras, the Vagapeya, the Shodasin, and the Sarasvata Sattra.
Commentary. With regard to the Shodasin and its vikâra, the Vågapeya, the laying of the fire is not mentioned. In the case of the Sadya skras, it becomes impossible, because they have to be quickly finished. In the case of the Sarasvata Sattra, there is the same difficulty on account of not remaining in the same place (anavasthåpån någnis kiyate).
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