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On the full moon day of the month Chaitra he makes (images of) a pair of animals out of meal; (he offers) them and jujube leaves (to the gods); to Indra and Agni a figure with prominent navel; and balls to Rudra (Çāṅkhāyana, *Gṛihya Sūtra*, iv, 19).