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Manava Dharmashastra 3.204

Manubhāṣya 3.204

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Sanskrit

3.204

agnau yatkarttavyaṃ 'agnaye svadhā nama' iti āhutiprakṣepalakṣaṇaṃ kāryaṃ tadapasavyam | dakṣiṇena hastena kartavyaṃ, na savyena, nobhābhyāṃ, "ubhayorhastayormuktam" itiniṣedhāt | hastadvayasaṃyogena kartavyatāśaṅkāyāmapasavyenetyuktamiti kecit | idaṃ tvayuktam | yā agnāvāhutayo hūyante tāsāṃ ca yā āvṛtaparikramastasyāpasavyatā vidhīyate | dakṣiṇāsaṃsthā āhutīḥ kuryāt nodaksaṃsthāḥ, yathā daive | darbhyā vā havirbhrastu kārayitavyaṃ nodīcyāṃ kiṃ tarhi dakṣiṇābhimukhaṃ yathodakaṃ pitryeṇa tīrthena kāryate | sarvagrahaṇādanyadapi pariveṣaṇādyapasavyameva kartavyam | apasavyena hastenodakaṃ nirvapet | 'śanairiti' vā pāṭhaḥ | atrārthaḥ-anyathā "rājatairbhājanaiḥ" ityanena rajatabhājanaprāptaye savyahastavidhiḥ | āvṛttirāvṛt |

Self-controlled, he should, after having offered those balls on Kuśa-blades, according to rule, wipe that hand on those same (Kuśa-blades), for the sake of the “Partakers of Smearings.”—(216)

Ganganatha Jha 1920, Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi

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