India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s2.19

c11.s2.19

The sacrificial utensils (*yajña-pātra*, I.3.64), specially the cups for drinking Soma, were arranged in pairs which is given as one of the meanings of the word *dvandva* (*yajña-pātra-prayoga*, VIII.1.15). Two Soma-cups (*grahas*) are named, *kshullaka-vaiśvadeva* (cf. *Kāt. Śr.* IX.4.1) and *mahā-vaiśvadeva* (*Kshullakaścha Vaiśvadeve*, VI.2.39, cf. *Kat. Śr.* X.6.2. for *mahāvaiśvadeva*). Oblation is mentioned as *havi*, a special form of which was known as *sāṁnāyya* (III.1.129), which is said to consist of 'curd from the cow's milking of the previous evening (*sāyaṁdoha*) taken with fresh milk of the following morning (*prātardoha*) and offered together to Indra in the New Moon sacrifice (*saṁ*+*nī*, to mix).¹