Manava Dharmashastra 4.27

4.27

agnimānāhitāgniratrābhipretaḥ, vratādhikārāt | tasya homasya yājurvedikaṃ vratam | nāniṣṭvā paśunā māṃsaṃ samaśnīyānnāgrayaṇena navānnamiti | niyamānupālane phalamāha | dīrghamāyurjijīviṣuḥ | āyuḥśabdena prabandhavatyaḥ prāṇāpānavṛttaya ucyante | dvitīyā ca satyapi jīvaterakarmakatve'pi iṣikriyāpekṣayā | sannanto'pi dhāturicchāyāṃ vartate | atrāpi darśane iṣeḥ karma prakṛtyartho na bāhyam, icchā veṣyamāṇaṃ prati guṇabhūtā, prakṛtipratyayau pratyayārthaṃ saha bruvata iti sannantādanyatrāpi | asminnapi darśane āyuḥśabdena kālo lakṣyiṣyate, dīrghakālaṃ jīvanamicchan | tatra 'kālatārādvā'vagantavyā karmasaṃjñā hyakarmaṇāmiti' karmatvam |
eṣa cāhitāgneḥ paśubandhe niyamaḥ, āgrayaṇe'pi | guhyāgnimato'pi gṛhyasmṛtiṣu niyamatayā āgrayaṇaṃ vihitam |
yaccedaṃ 'śaradi navānnamiti', tat vrīhiśyāmākayoḥ na yavānām | na ca sasyamātreṇa sasyeṣṭiyāgaḥ, na ca māṣamudgādinā | yata idaṃ śāstrāntarasāpekṣaṃ, na svato vidhāyakabhityuktam | śāstrāntareṣu ca vrīhiśyāmākayavairāgrayaṇeṣṭirvihitā |
kiṃ tvanyadapi sasyaṃ nāśitavyamakṛtāyāmāgrayaṇeṣṭau | yata uktamaviśeṣeṇa 'sasyaṃ nāśnīyāditi' | tanniṣedhe hyabhiprete iyadevāvakṣyat 'āgrayaṇaṃ vrīhiśyāmākayavānāṃ nāśnīyādagnihotramahutveti' | evaṃ sūtrakāreṇa paṭhitam "āgrayaṇaṃ vrīhiśyāmākayavānāṃ, sasyaṃ nāśnīyādagnihotramahutveti" | ato'yaṃ sasyaśabdo na pratiniyataviṣaya eva |

Though this is so, yet other. grains also should not be eaten, until the Āgrayaṇeṣṭi has been performed; since it has been stated in general terms that ‘he shall eat no new grains and if the author had meant to prohibit the eating of only those grains with which the Āgrayaṇeṣṭi is performed, then he should have said—‘He shall not eat the Vrīhi, the Śyāmāka and the Yava, until he has made the offering;’ while what the author of the Sūtra has said is—‘The Āgrayaṇa is to be performed with the Vrīhi, the Śyāmāka and the Vara; one shall eat no new grains until one has made the offering;’ so that the term ‘grain’ cannot stand for any particular grains only.—(27).

As for the rule that ‘the New-Harvest Sacrifice is to be performed in the autumn,’ this refers to the Vrīhi and the Śyāmāka grains, not to the Yava. Nor is it necessary to perform the Harvest-Sacrifice at each and every harvest; nor is it performed with such grains as the Māṣa, the Mudga, and the like. That all this is so follows from the fact that the present text is dependent upon other scriptural injunctions, and it is not itself a self-sufficient injunction, as we have already explained. And in other scriptural injunctions it has been laid down that the Āgrayaṇeṣṭi is to be performed with the Vrīhi, the Śyāmāka and the Yam.