History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c47.s1.33

v3.c47.s1.33

²²⁵⁵ The com. on Kāt. IV. 10. 5 explains पूर्णया स्रुचा आहुतिः पूर्णाहुतिः. The procedure ordinarily applying to all āhutis of clarified butter is: The adhvaryu puts butter into the butter-pot, which is placed on the gārhapatya fire to melt. Having wiped the sruva (dipping spoon) and juhū (offering spoon) with darbha grass and having taken the butter pot off the fire he dips two darbha blades used as strainers (*pavitra*) into the heated butter and fills the juhū with the sruva. Then he takes a samidh, walks over to the north side of the āhavanīya, strews darbha grass round it and puts the samidh on that fire. Then he sits down with bent right knee, pours the butter in the juhū on to the fire with the word *svāhā* and the sacrificer utters the formulæ ‘agnaya idaṁ na mama’. This holds good in agnyādheya and agnihotra, but in many other rites the principal (pradhāna) offerings are offered while the priest is standing.