History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c47.s2.1.2

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13) and the dakṣiṇāgni is permanently kept only if it was set up by attrition at the time when the house-holder performed agnyādheya. The house-holder calls upon the adhvaryu to bring the āhavanīya from the gārhapatya in the evening and also in the morning; this is so only if the yajamāna engages an adhvaryu in the daily agnihotra, but if the yajamāna does the daily agnihotra himself this call is unnecessary. As to the dakṣiṇāgni in the daily agnihotra, Āśv. (II. 2. 1) mentions several alternatives viz., it may be brought from the house of a vaiśya or from the house of any rich man or it may be produced by attrition or it may be kindled into flames if it is kept permanently. He should take burning coals from the kindled gārhapatya in a vessel and carry them to the place of the āhavanīya with the mantra ‘devam tvā devebhyaḥ śriyā uddharāmi’ and should repeat when carrying the burning coals towards the east the mantra ‘raise me up from sin that I knowingly or unknowingly may have committed; save me from all the sin that I may have committed in the day’ (this in the evening agnihotra, in the morning agnihotra it being said ‘sin that I committed at night’). Vide Āśv. II. 2. 3 and 6, Āp. VI. 1. 7, Baud. III. 4. He should face the sun and place the burning coals in the āhavanīya mound with the mantra (amṛtāhutim &c., in Āśv. II. 2. 4, Āp. VI. 1. 8, Baud. III. 4). In the morning agnihotra also he should face the sun and do other things stated above. According to Kāt. (IV. 13.