History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c48.209

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The adhvaryu then smears the two front joints of the hotṛ's finger as before, first the hind joint and then the front joint. He breathes over it and touches water. The adhvaryu drops into the palm of the right hand of the hotṛ four drops of ājya as iḍā²⁴¹⁰ and six in that of the āgnīdhra. The hotṛ inaudibly invokes both (viz. his own iḍā and āgnīdhra's, the hand of the latter being held underneath the former's) in the same words as before (vide Appendix under note 2384). When the words 'this yajamāna has been summoned' are uttered, the wife mutters 'being summoned may I surpass in the possession²⁴¹¹ of cattle,' and the adhvaryu also performs japa as above. When the iḍā is being invoked the adhvaryu, the āgnīdhra and the wife (with a darbha blade) touch the hotṛ. The yajamāna invokes ājya iḍā with 'may iḍā cover us with ghṛta &c.' (Āp. IV. 13. 4). At the end of the invocation of iḍā the hotṛ eats the iḍā (drops of ājya) and the āgnīdhra eats his with 'father Heaven has been invoked, may the fire summon me from āgnīdhra for my life, lustre &c.' (Tai. Br. III. 7. 6). He silently performs mārjana after partaking of iḍā. The patnīsaṃyājas end with the invocation of iḍā or they may be finished after reciting Śaṃyuvāka (Sat. II. 5, p. 225; Āśv. I. 10. 9; Kāt. III. 7. 13).