[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Polity, Pleasure & Law](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti) › [Law and Social-Religious Duty](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma) › [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu) › [Manubhashya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi) › 3.204 # Manava Dharmashastra 3.204 Manubhāṣya 3.204 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.204](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.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 - [Previous: 3.203](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.203) - [Next: 3.205](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.205) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3) ## Translations (1) - [Manu-Smṛti: The Laws of Manu with the Bhāṣya of Medhātithi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi~en-jha.3.216.p1) — Ganganatha Jha 1920, English ## Linked texts (1) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.204) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.204](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi.3.204) · Pramāṇa