History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c48.118

v3.c48.118

He sprinkles clarified butter over each of the potsherds (on which the puroḍāśa was baked), counts them and keeps them aside with 'may not prosperity in the form of food and the flavour of earth pass away' (Tai. Br. III. 7. 5). He anoints both the puroḍāśas with butter with 'may god Savitṛ anoint thee with honey' (the mantra is repeated twice), the upper part being anointed by the *sruva* ladle with plenty of ghee in such a way that there are no mere drops of ghee on it as there are specks on the back of the tortoise (but the ghee is well spread over the whole surface) and that the lower skin of the puroḍāśa is anointed with ghee by the right hand. He lays down the two puroḍāśas to the west of the *srucs*, that for Agni being to the south and the other being to the north with 'may you occupy this loved seat by your lovable lustre.' If sānnāyya is to be offered, he brings together (makes them touch each other) in the middle of the vedi the two jars of it and then keeps them separate, the one containing the boiled milk on the southern corner of the west side of the vedi and that containing curds on the northern corner thereof. When the sānnāyya is being thus placed the *yajamāna* repeats a verse '*yasta ātmā* &c.' (Tai. Br. III. 7. 5) and repeats a mantra (from Tai. Br. III. 7. 6) invoking the puroḍāśa for Agni, that for Agnīṣoma (or Indra and Agni), the hot milk, the curds (the sānnāyya in cases where it is offered).