India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s6.16

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s6.16

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c12.s6.16

*FOUR-FOLD VRĀTYA-STOMAS*—The Vrātya-stoma ritual was made an extremely simple affair, allowing much latitude to its performer. Naturally the *Vrātās* could not been expected to handle elaborate ritual. It is therefore laid down that the Vrātya-stoma sacrifice can be performed in ordinary fire (*laukika agni*, com. on *Kāt.* I.1.14), and with such ingredients as could be obtained in each locality (*yathādravye janapade*, *ib.* XXII.2.22). One can easily perceive that the four kinds of Vrātya-stomas were prescribed for corresponding elements of the *Vrāta* population:

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Kātyāyanaśrautasūtra — Kātyāyana (Vājasaneyi sūtrakāra), Sanskrit