Manava Dharmashastra 5.27.1

5.27.1

agnīṣomīye paśau hutaśiṣṭaṃ māṃsaṃ lakṣaṇayā prokṣitamucyate | "nanu prokṣitaśabdo yaugika utsasecanetyasya dhātoḥ prakṣālanakriyānimittakaḥ | tathā ca 'prokṣaṇīrāsādya' 'ghṛtaṃ prokṣaṇīyamiti' 'prokṣaṇībhirudvejitāḥ stha' iti sarvatra kriyāyogātprayujyate | yadyāsecanasādhanam, tatra kuto vaidikasaṃskāranimittānāṃ svasambandhe paśusaṃlakṣaṇādvāreṇa māṃse pravartate | mukhyaṃ ca śabdārthamatikramya kimiti lakṣaṇā''śrīyate | ataḥ prakṣālitamudakādinā yuktam” | satyam | yadyatra vākyāntarāṇyarthavādāśca śeṣabhūtā na syuḥ—‘anupākṛtamāṃsāni’ ‘asaṃskṛtānpaśūnmantrairiti’ | atastatparyālocanayā'yamevārtho'vatiṣṭhate | “yadyevaṃ tata eva siddhatvātki manena” |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
The remnant of the meat of the animal sacrificed at the Agniṣṭoma is figuratively called ‘consecrated’.

“The term ‘prokṣita’ literally means sprinkled with water, being derived from the root ‘ukṣa,’ ‘to sprinkle’; and it is in this sense that the word has been used in all such expressions as ‘bring the prokṣaṇī water-vessels,’ ‘butter is th e prokṣaṇa, the sprinkling-material,’ ‘prokṣaṇībhiḥ udvejitāḥ,’ ‘bothered by sprinkings (sprinklings?),’ and so forth. Thus then, if the word literally means ‘what is done by sprinkling,’ then why should such terms us are expressive of certain consecrations prescribed in the Veda, (such as sprinkling with water and the like), be taken as indirectly indicating the animal (sacrificed) and its meat? Why should the direct signification of the word be abandoned in favour of an indirect indication? For these reasons it is better to take the text to mean ‘meat sprinkled with water and such liquids’.”

What is urged would be quite true, if there were no other texts and commendatory passages bearing upon the matter; such as we have in the shape of such texts as ‘Unconsecrated meat etc.’ (Verse), ‘Animnls not consecrated with sacred texts etc.’ (36). A careful examination of all these texts leads to the conclusion that the meaning of the word is as we have explained it.

“If so, then what is said here being already mentioned in the texts quoted, what would be the use of the present text?”