History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c48.182

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The yajamāna touches water and mutters a mantra (which is in Āp. IV. 11. 6 'vedirbarhiḥ &c.). The yajamāna also performs japa of the Saptahotṛ²³⁹³ formulas before the anuyājas are offered. The adhvaryu takes into the juhū the ājya from the upabhṛt (leaving some in the latter), crosses over to the south with the juhū and sets about offering the three anuyājas. First there is the āśravaṇa (O3śrā3vaya), then pratyāśravaṇa (astu śrau3ṣaṭ) by āgnīdhra who always holds the sphya when saying this. Then the adhvaryu issues a direction to the hotṛ 'recite the yājyā for the devas.' When the hotṛ recites the yājyā and utters vau3ṣaṭ the adhvaryu standing in one place offers the first ājya offering on the samidh (offered for anuyājas as stated on 1069 above) to its east, the 2nd and 3rd to the west on the samidh itself (but all three are offered to the east of the meeting point of the two āghāras). The third and last offering of ājya is begun on the west but carried east in a continuous stream so as to become mixed up *with the first two*. In each case the yajamāna repeats the formula of tyāga. The yājyās and tyāga are given below in the note.²³⁹⁴ The adhvaryu then comes back to the north, lays the two ladles (sruc) in their proper places and he and the yajamāna mutter the two formulas (Tai. S. I. 6. 4. 2 called vājavatī). The adhvaryu takes up in his right hand with palm upwards the juhū and prastara (prastara being placed over the palm and juhū over the prastara) with ‘vājasya......grabhīt’ (Tai. S. I. 6. 4. 2) and holds down (so as to bring it in contact with barhis) with palm turned downwards in the left hand the upabhṛt ladle (which is under the palm) with ‘athāsapatnān......akaḥ’ (*ibid*). He again takes up the juhū with ‘udgrābham ca’ (*ibid*) and presses down the upabhṛt with ‘nigrābham ca.’ At this time the juhū held in the right hand is far apart from the upabhṛt held in the left. Then he moves with the right hand having palm turned upward towards the east on the vedi itself the juhū with ‘brahma devā avīvṛdhan’ (the gods increased holy prayer) and with the left hand having palm downwards he leaves outside the vedi the upabhṛt with ‘athāsapatnān...vyasyatām’ (*ibid*. ‘Indra and Agni hurled away my enemies’ &c.). Then he touches water, sprinkles water over the upabhṛt, takes it up and anoints with the butter remaining in the juhū the three paridhis, the middle one with ‘to thee for Vasus,’ the southern one with ‘to thee for Rudras’ and the northern one with ‘to thee for Ādityas.’ The yajamāna recites in each case ‘this is for Vasus,’ ‘this is for Rudras,’ ‘this is for Ādityas’ followed in each case with a prayer noted below.²³⁹⁵ After keeping the juhū in some spot on the vedi other than where the prastara is, the adhvaryu, having mixed the prastara with the two vidhṛtis (vide above p. 1045) with 'may heaven and earth be of the same mind; may Mitra and Varuṇa help you with rain' he leaves the vidhṛtis on the barhis and smears the prastara (with the remnants of ājya) in the three ladles (sruc), the points in juhū with 'licking the one that is smeared' (Tai. S. I. 1. 13. 1), middle portions in upabhṛt with 'viyantu vayaḥ' (*ibid*) and the roots in dhruvā with 'prajām yonim '²³⁹⁶ (*ibid*). He does the anointing a second time (with the same mantras). He anoints a third time in the reverse order viz. the roots first in dhruvā, the middle portions in upabhṛt and the tops last in juhū (the mantras being the same for each ladle). The yajamāna repeats, while the prastara is being anointed, a mantra 'may kuśa be anointed with ghee' (Āp. IV. 12. 3). Taking out a blade from the prastara so anointed with 'to thee for long life', he places it in a known place (for use later on). When the blade is taken away from the prastara the yajamāna recites a mantra (apipred yajño...yajamānaṁ viśantu).