History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c42.3

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*Pārvaṇa sthālīpāka:*—Among the seven pākayājñasaṁsthās mentioned by Gaut. (VIII. 19) is the pārvaṇa sthālīpāka. When a person is married and returns to his house after marriage he causes the newly married bride to sacrifice a mess of cooked food. The wife husks the rice grains of which that sthālīpāka is prepared. She cooks the mess, sprinkles *ājya* on it, takes it from the fire. Then he sacrifices to the deities of the Vedic Darśa-Pūrṇamāsa and then to Agni Sviṣṭakṛt. With the remnants of the cooked food he feeds a learned brāhmaṇa and makes the present of a bull to that brāhmaṇa. From that time the householder constantly sacrifices on the days of the full moon and of the new moon a similar mess of cooked food sacred to Agni. In the case of one who has not kindled the three Vedic fires, the sthālīpāka is meant for Agni (it is Āgneya). In the case of an householder who keeps the three Vedic fires the sthālīpāka at Full moon is Agnīṣomīya and Aindra or Māhendra or Aindrāgna on the New moon day (Khādira gṛ. II. 2. 1-3, Āśv. Śr. I. 3. 8-12). Both the householder and his wife fast on the days of the full and new moon or they eat only once in the morning on those days (Āp. Dh. S. II. 1. 1. 4-5, Āśv. gṛ. I. 10. 2). This is briefly the pārvaṇa sthālīpāka. It is begun on the first full moon day after marriage and is continued throughout the lives of the husband and wife. In the sthālīpākas performed throughout life on the full moon and new moon there is no dakṣiṇā (of a bull).¹⁹³⁹ Vide for details Āśv. gṛ. I. 10 and Āp. gṛ. 7. 1–19 (among the sūtras) and Saṁskāra-kaustubha pp. 823 ff and Saṁskāraprakāśa pp. 904–906 among later digests.