History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c48.97

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²³³⁷ The प्रैष is प्रोक्षणीरासाद्येध्माबर्हिरुपसाद्य स्रुवं च सुचश्च संमृद्धि पत्नीं संनह्याज्येनोदेहीति ।. Vide Tai. Br. III. 2. 9 and Sat. I. 6. p. 153. According to Sat. this is addressed to himself by the adhvaryu who does all these actions in order. According to Kāt. II. 6. 36-37 the direction is addressed to āgnīdhra and according to the com. on Āp. II, 3. 11 there is an option. Even if the yajamāna has two or more wives the direction is still पत्नीं संनह्य, since the rule is that there is no *(Continued from last page)* *ūha* in the model sacrifice. Vide Jaimini IX. 3. 20. The next sūtra extends the same rule to vikṛti sacrifices also. In XII. 1. 29 Jaimini establishes that at the time of dīkṣā in a Soma sacrifice the wife is girt up with the yoktra, a fresh girding up is hence not necessary in the prāyaṇīyā and other iṣṭis that are constituent elements in somayāga. Jaimini I. 4. 11 explains that the word prokṣaṇī is used here in its etymological sense.