History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c41.27

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The Āśv. gṛ. III. 5. 13 extends the procedure of upākarma to utsarga and adds (III. 5. 20-22) that offerings of boiled rice are made to the same deities instead of clarified butter, then they take a bath and perform tarpaṇa of those very deities and of ācāryas, ṛṣis and pitṛs (as in brahmayajña). Nārāyaṇa states that in utsarjana there is no eating (of barley¹⁹³⁶ with curds) as there is in upākarma nor mārjana. Pār. gṛ. II. 12 gives the procedure of utsarjana as follows: "They (teacher and pupils) should go to the brink of water (a river &c.) and offer oblations of water (i. e. tarpaṇa) to the gods, to the metres, to the Vedas, ṛṣis, the ancient teachers, the Gandharvas, the other teachers, the year with its divisions, the Pitṛs, ācāryas, their (deceased) relatives. After having rapidly recited the Sāvitrī four times, they should utter loudly 'we have stopped (Vedic study).' There is anadhyāya in utsarjana for the same period as on upākarma and they should then continue the repetition (of the Veda) as before". The Gobhila gṛ. III. 3. 15 says about utsarjana 'they go out of the village turning their faces to the east or north, they should approach water that is deeper than their waist, should bathe therein and should offer tarpaṇa to the vedas, ṛṣis and ācāryas.' A holiday was observed on the day of utsarjana for a day and half (pakṣiṇī) or three days after it (Manu IV. 97, Yāj. I. 144).