[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v3.c42.52 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c42.52 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c42.52 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c42.52](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c42.52) This rite is most elaborately described in Āśv. gṛ. IV. 9, Baud. gṛ. II. 7, Hira gṛ. II. 8-9, Bhār. gṛ. II. 8-10, Pār. gṛ. III. 8. It appears that even in the times of the gṛhya sūtras there were many who did not like the rite of ox-flesh. The Baud. gṛ. (II. 7. 26-27) says¹⁹⁶⁶ that if a person cannot secure an ox he may sacrifice with a goat or ram or he may cook a mess of cooked food for Īśāna and with that he does everything that is to be done by means of an ox. The commentator Devapāla on Kāṭhaka¹⁹⁶⁷ gṛ. 52. 1 says that only a goat is offered and the bull is let off as the people are opposed to the idea of the sacrifice of an ox. - [Previous: v3.c42.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c42.51) - [Next: v3.c42.53](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c42.53) - [Up: v3.c42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c42) ## Cites (6) - [Baudhāyanagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.krsnayajur.baudhayana.2.7) — Baudhāyana, Sanskrit - [Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.8) — Pāraskara, Sanskrit - [Kāṭhakagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.krsnayajur.kathaka.52.1) — Laugākṣi, Sanskrit - [Hiraṇyakeśigṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.krsnayajur.hiranyakesi.2.8) — Hiraṇyakeśin, Sanskrit - [Bhāradvājagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.krsnayajur.bharadvaja.2.8) — Sanskrit - [Āśvalāyanagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.rgveda.asvalayana) — Āśvalāyana, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c42.52](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c42.52) · Pramāṇa