History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c47.s1.35

v3.c47.s1.35

*Punarādheya:* When within a year after a man sets up the Vedic fires he suffers from severe illness (such as dropsy) or suffers loss of wealth or his son dies or his near relatives are harassed or made captive by his enemies or he becomes cripple in a limb, or if he is desirous of prosperity or fame he again sets up the fires. The procedure is essentially the same as for agnyādheya with a few differences e. g. fires are fed with kuśa grass and not with wood nor with fuel-sticks, the two ājyabhāgas are for agni alone (while in the model sacrifice they are for Agni and Soma), the punarādheya is performed in the rainy season and at mid-day. Other differences and details are passed over.²²⁵⁶ Jai. (VI. 4. 26-27) states that punarādheya is a prāyaścitta only if both the fires (gārhapatya and āhavanīya) have been extinguished or discontinued and (in X. 3. 30-33) that when punarādheya is resorted to for some desired object, the fees that are prescribed in agnyādhāna are not the fees to be given, but other dakṣiṇā is given.