Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c36.53

c36.53

"They then return (to the sacrificial ground) without "looking backward. He now proceeds with the cake on eight "potsherds for Anumati. For A n u m a t i is this (Earth); and "whosoever knows to do that work which he intends to do, "for him indeed she approves (*anu-man*) thereof; hence it "is her he thereby pleases, thinking 'May I be consecrated, "approved by that (genius of) approval!'"—¹