The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c21.7

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The domestic (*gṛihya*) fire is that at which he has taken her hand (in marriage) or that on which he has put the last piece of wood (as a student before marriage) or a (fresh) fire twirled out (of wood), the last being pure but not tending to prosperity; or he may get his domestic fire from a frying-pan or from the house of a man who makes many sacrifices, Çūdras excepted. The service begins with an evening oblation. After (the fire) has been set in a blaze before sunset or