Khadiragrihyasutra 3.4

3.4.1

madhyamāyāṃ gauḥ / 1

On the middle (Ashtakâ) a cow (is sacrificed).
4, 1. madhyamâyâm gaus.

3.4.2

tāṃ purastādagneḥ pratyaṅmukhīmavasthāpya juhuyādyatpaśava iti / 2

He should place that (cow) to the east of the fire, facing the west, and should sacrifice (Âgya) with (the verse), 'What, O beasts' (MB. II, 2, 5).

3.4.3

hutvā cānumantrayetānu tveti / 3

After having made that oblation he should recite over (the cow the verse), 'May to thee' (l.l. 6).

3.4.4

yavamatībhiradbhiḥ prokṣedaṣṭakāyai tvā juṣṭaṃ prokṣāmīti / 4

Let him sprinkle it with water in which barley is, with (the formula), 'Agreeable to the Ashtakâ I sprinkle thee!'

3.4.5

prokṣyolmukena parihṛtya prokṣaṇīḥ pāyayet / 5

Having sprinkled it and carried a fire-brand round it, he should give the Prokshanî water (to the cow) to drink.

3.4.6

udaṅṅutsṛpya pratyakchirasamudakpadīṃ saṃjñapayet / 6

Going in a northern direction (from the fire) he should kill (the cow), the head of which is turned to the west, the feet to the north.

3.4.7

saṃjñaptāyāṃ juhuyādyatpaśuriti / 7

After it has been killed, he should sacrifice (Âgya) with (the verse), 'If the beast' (l.l. 8).

3.4.8

tasyāḥ patnī srotāṃsi prakṣālayet / 8

His wife should wash the apertures of its body.

3.4.9

pavitre antardhāyotkṛtya vapāmuddhārayet / 9

After (the cow's body) has been opened, so that two purifiers (i.e. grass-blades) have been put under (the knife), he should have the omentum drawn out.

3.4.10

yajñiyasya vṛkṣasya viśākhāśākhābhyāṃ parigṛhyāgnau śrapayet / 10

Seizing it with one branch and with another forked branch of a sacrificially pure tree he should roast it.

3.4.11

prasṛtāyāṃ viśaset / 11

When it has ceased to drop, he should hew (the cow) to pieces.

3.4.12

uktamupastaraṇābhighāraṇaṃ yathā sviṣṭakṛtaḥ / 12

The 'spreading under' and sprinkling (Âgya) on (the omentum) has been described. (It is clone) as at the Svishtakrit oblation (see II, 1, 24).

3.4.13

aṣṭakāyai svāheti juhuyāt / 13

He should sacrifice with (the formula), 'To the Ashtakâ Svâhâ!'

3.4.14

sarvāṅgebhyo 'vadānānyuddhārayet / 14

The Avadânas (or portions which have to be cut off) he should have taken from all its limbs.

3.4.15

na savyātsakthnaḥ / 15

Not from the left thigh and the lungs.

3.4.16

na klomnaḥ / 16

The left thigh he keeps (for the Anvashtakya).

3.4.17

savyaṃ sakthi nidhāya / 17

He should cook the Avadânas and a mess of sacrificial food, (stirring up the ones and the other) with two different pot-ladles.

3.4.18

pṛthaṅmekṣaṇābhyāmavadānāni sthālīpākaṃ ca śrapayitvā / 18

The juice he lets drop into a brazen vessel.

3.4.19

kaṃse rasaṃ prasrāvya / 29

The Avadânas he puts on branches of the Plaksha tree.

3.4.20

plakṣaśākhāsvavadānāni kṛtvā / 20

From each (Avadâna) he should cut off (the prescribed portions, and should put them) into a brazen vessel;

3.4.21

ekaikasmāt kaṃse 'vadyet / 21

And from the mess of cooked food.

3.4.22

sthālīpākācca / 22

Let him take four portions or eight portions of Âgya (?) and let him sacrifice it with (the verses), 'Into Agni' (MB. II, 2, 9 seqq.).

3.4.23

caturgṛhītamaṣṭagṛhītaṃ vātra juhuyādagnāviti / 23

Let him make oblations out of the brazen vessel, each oblation with two of the following (verses).

3.4.24

kaṃsātparābhirdvābhyāṃdvābhyāmekaikāmāhutim / 24

The oblation to (Agni) Svishtakrit with the eighth (verse).

3.4.25

sauviṣṭakṛtamaṣṭamyā / 25

At a sacrifice to the Fathers the omentum is sacrificed with (the verse), 'Carry the omentum' (MB. II, 3, 16).

3.4.26

vaha vapāmiti pitrye vapāhomaḥ / 26

At one to the gods with (the verse), 'Gâtavedas!' (l.l. 17.)

3.4.27

jātaveda iti daivatye / 27

If (the deity is) unknown, (in the formula for) assigning (the oblation, instead of the name of a deity the name of) that (ceremony is put)—

3.4.28

tadādeśamanājñāte / 28

As (for instance), 'To the Ashtakâ.'

3.4.29

yathā 'ṣṭakāyā iti / 29

An animal is the sacrificial fee at (the sacrifice of) an animal;

3.4.30

paśureva paśordakṣiṇā / 30

A full vessel at (that of) a mess of cooked food.

3.4.31

sthālīpākasya pūrṇapātram / 31
iti caturthaḥ khaṇḍaḥ