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ÂPASTAMBA'S VAGÑA-PARIBHÂSHÂ-SÛTRAS.
SOTRA CLI. From the end there takes place omission or addition.
Commentary. This refers again to the same subject, namely what has to be done if there are either more or less mantras than there are acts which they are to accompany. In that case it is here allowed to use as many mantras as there are acts, and to drop the rest of the mantras. Or, if there are less mantras than there are acts, then, after the mantras have been equally divided, the last verse is to be multiplied. For instance, in the Dvikapala sacrifice for the two Asvins, the placing of the two kapålas is accompanied by two mantras. The rest of the mantras enjoined in the prakriti is left out. But if there are, for instance, twelve or more ish takås, bricks, to be placed, while there are only ten mantras, then the mantras are equally divided, and the fifth and tenth to be repeated, as many times as is necessary to equal the number of the ishtakas.
SOTRA CLII. As the Prakriti has been told before, anything that has not been told before, should be at the end.
Commentary. This seems to mean that anything new, peculiar to a Vikriti, and not mentioned in the Prakriti, should come in at the end, that is, after those portions of the sacrifice which are enjoined in the Prakriti.
SOTRA CLIII. The rule should stand on account of the fitness of the Kumbhi, a large pot, the Sala, the spit for boiling the heart, and the two Vapásrapanis, the spits for roasting the vapa.
Commentary. Kumbhi is explained by sronyadipa kasamartha
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