History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c50.21

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and surrounding with a girdle (parivyāṇa or parivyayaṇa) are performed on the yūpa only once and are not repeated at each time an animal is sacrificed. The girdle is an aṅga of the yūpa and not of the paśu, as otherwise as many girdles will be required for the yūpa as the number of victims to be sacrificed in a yāga (vide Jai. IV. 4. 22–24). The svaru is connected as an aṅga with the victim (for anointing the victim with it) and not with the yūpa (Jai. IV. 4. 25–28). Vide Jai. IV. 2. 1-6 also.