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XIV KÂNDA, 3 ADHYAYA, I BRÂHMANA, 1. 493
burnt; and if of gold, it would dissolve ; and if of copper, it would melt; and if of stone, it would burn the two handling-sticks; and that (Gharma) itself submitted to that (earthen vessel) : therefore it is by means of an earthen one that he offers it.
55. And, verily, whosoever either teaches, or partakes of, this (Pravargya) enters that life, and that light : the observance thereof is the same as at the creation ?
THIRD ADHYÂYA. First BRÂHMANA.
THE SETTING OUT OF THE PRAVARGYA. 1. Now, on the third, or the sixth, or the twelfth day, having combined (the two performances of) the Pravargya and Upasads 3, he 'sets out the Pravargya, for set out (removed), as it were, is this head (from the trunk). Having gathered together all around its (the Mahavira pot), they
See p. 458, note 1. ? That is, according to whether there are three, six, or twelve Upasad days to the particular form of Soma-sacrifice about to be performed. On each of these days there would be two performances of the Upasads,--and in case the Pravargya is to be performed-as many performances of that sacrifice.
On the day before the Soma-sacrifice, the two performances of the Pravargya and the Upasads are combined and gone through in the forenoon, instead of the forenoon and afternoon as is otherwise the case. Katy. XXVI, 7, 1 does not refer to the performance of the Pravargya on this day, but merely remarks that at the end of the Upasads (i. e. of the combination of the Upasads, comm.) the removal of the Pravargya' takes place. Âpast. XV, 12, 4-6, on the other hand, states distinctly that the total number of performances of the Pravargya is to be double that of the Upasad days.
• The setting out' (utsadana) of the Pravargya is the technical phrase for the removal and orderly laying out in the form of a man) of the apparatus used for the Pravargya ceremony.
. After collecting the implements they take them out of the sala
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