India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s2.46

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s2.46

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c11.s2.46

*ĀVĀHANA*—In the Darśa-Paurṇamāsa Ishṭis, there are five oblations (*Pañcha-prayājas*)¹ which constitute the first part (*pūrvāṅga*) of the sacrifice (Prayājānuyājau Yajñāṅge, VII.³.62) and three secondary oblations called *anuyājas*.² In a *Paśu-yāga* their number is raised to eleven. Of the five *prayājas*,¹ the last one is *svāhākāra* oblation, when the deity is invoked by the formula *āvaha*, for which Pāṇini prescribes *pluta* accent, *e.g.* अग्निमा३ वह (VIII.2.91).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit