History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c47.s2.1.4

v3.c47.s2.1.4

1-2). The householder then sips water (*performs ācamana*) with the words 'vidyudasi vidya me pāpmānam-ṛtāt satyam-upaimi mayi śraddhā' (Āp. VI. 5. 3). The wife also sips water.²²⁶¹ Then both husband and wife should observe silence till the agnihotra (morning or evening) is gone through. A man who has no wife can perform the daily agnihotra (vide Ait. Br. 32. 8). The adhvaryu performs *parisaṁūhana* (wiping with the wet hand from the north-east to the north) thrice for the three fires. He strews round the āhavanīya fire darbha grass (performs paristaraṇa) in such a way that the darbhas to the east and west have their ends turned to the north and of those to the north and south turned to the east and the strewing proceeds from the east, then to the south, then to the west and then to the north. In the same way he strews darbha grass round the gārhapatya and then round the dakṣiṇāgni. Taking water in his right hand, he sprinkles it round the āhavanīya first, beginning from the northeast and ending in the north. Then he walks towards the west pouring a continuous stream of water from the āhavanīya up to the gārhapatya. He then sprinkles (performs *paryukṣaṇa*) the gārhapatya from left to right and then the dakṣiṇāgni. Or one may sprinkle water (and this is the usual order now in the Deccan) round the gārhapatya first and then round dakṣiṇāgni and then pour a stream of water from the gārhapatya to the east up to the āhavanīya (Āśv. II. 2. 14). Āśv. (II. 2.