History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c35.31

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After reciting ‘om bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ’ and the sacred Gāyatrī, he recites Ṛg. I. 1. 1–9, then the first sentence of the Ait. Br., the first sentences of the five sections of the Ait. Ār.; the first sentences of the Black and White Yajurveda, of the Sāmaveda, of the Atharvaveda; the first sentences of the Nighaṇṭu and the six Vedāṅgas viz. Āśv. śrauta, Nirukta, Chandas, Nighaṇṭu, Jyotiṣa, Śikṣā, Pāṇini’s grammar in order; the first ‘pāda’ of Yāj. I. 1 and of the Mahābhārata (I.1.1), the first sūtra of the Nyāya, Pūrvamīmāṁsā and Uttaramīmāṁsā; then a benedictory formula (‘tacchamyōr... catuṣpade’) and lastly the verse ‘namo brahmaṇe’ is repeated thrice.¹⁶⁸⁴ After this brahmayajña, tarpaṇa of devas, sages and pitṛs follows.