History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c34.165

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¹⁶¹¹ अवश्यं ब्राह्मणोऽग्नीनादधीत । दर्शपूर्णमासाग्रयणेष्टिचातुर्मास्यपशुसोमैश्च यजेत । नैयमिकं ह्येतदृणसंस्तुतं च । विज्ञायते हि त्रिभिर्ऋणैऋणवान् ब्राह्मणो जायत इति । यज्ञेन देवेभ्यः ... ... इत्येष वावृणो यज्वा यः पुत्री ब्रह्मचर्यवानिति । वसिष्ठ XI. 45–48; vide विष्णुधर्मसूत्र 59. 4–9 for similar provisions. Manu IV. 26 explains that the Āgrayaṇa iṣṭi is to be performed with the new grain that is brought in at the end of the rainy season (in śarad) after the old grain is consumed, that an animal sacrifice is to be performed at the eginning of the uttarāyaṇa and of dakṣiṇāyana (i. e. twice a year) and a Soma sacrifice once a year at its beginning. Vide also Yāj. I. 125–126.