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XIV KÂNDA, 2 ADHYAYA, 1 BRÂHMANA, 4.
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be pleased with its brightness, the welllighted with its light, hail!' with this text both (cakes are offered) in the morning ;-May the night be pleased with its brightness, the well-lighted with its light, hail!' with this text both (cakes are offered) in the evening.
2. And as to why he offers two Rauhina (cakes), -the two Rauhinas doubtless are Agni and Aditya (the sun), for by means of these two deities sacrificers ascend (ruh) to heaven.
3. And, indeed, the Rauhinas are also day and night, and the Pravargya is the sun: he thus encompasses yonder sun by the day and the night, whence he is encompassed by the day and the night.
4. And, indeed, the Rauhinas are also these two
is offered at this juncture of the performance, whilst the northern one is offered later on (see XIV, 2, 2, 41). For both cakes one and the same text is used, viz. the first of the two here mentioned at the morning performance, whilst the second is used at the alternoon performance. The cakes, being one-kapala ones (the two
rauhinahavani' ladles serving as kapâlas), must be offered entire. Cf. Kâty. XXVI, 4, 14 ; 6, 18; Àpast. XV, 10, 10; 11, 5; 12, 7; Taitt. Âr. IV, 10, 4. Though our Brâhmana expresses itself in a rather peculiar way, its statement, here and at XIV, 2, 2, 41, is perhaps meant to imply the same mode of procedure. If this is the case, the two paragraphs would mean,-at this juncture of the two performances he offers the two southern (northern, at XIV, 2, 2, 41) cakes,-the two cakes (the southern and the northern one of the morning performance requiring the first, and those of the afternoon performance the second, text. It is not impossible, however, that the author intends a different mode of procedure or wishes to leave it purposely vague. If we were to read 'rauhinam' for
rauhinau,' the text would be more in accordance with the practice prescribed in the Sätras. Cf. also Mahidh. (on Våg. S. XXXVII, 21) where read 'rauhinau' instead of 'pravargyau '-who adopts the procedure here explained.
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