History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c50.49.6

v3.c50.49.6

The hotṛ repeats it and the maitrāvaruṇa throws his staff into the āhavanīya fire (Āśv. III. 6. 21) and Āp. (VII. 27. 8) says that the three paridhis also are thrown into fire by means of the srucs except the dhruvā. The patnīsaṁyāja is performed with the tail of the animal, which is taken to the south of the sacrificial ground. There was a difference of opinion whether portions of the tail were offered to all the four deities of patnīsaṁyāja²⁵²⁵ or to some only (vide Kāt. VI. 9. 14-20). According to Āp. (VII. 27. 10) and Kāt. (VI. 9. 15-19) only ājya offerings are made to Soma and Tvaṣṭṛ, the inside part of the tail (on which no hair grow) is cut up for the wives of the gods and the hairy part is cut up for Agni Gṛhapati. Whether the sacrificer is *caturavattin* or *pañcāvattin*, all four or five portions are cut off from the tail and there is no under layer (*upastaraṇa*) and upper layer (*abhighāraṇa*) of ājya in this case. According to Kāt. VI. 9. 20 portions of the tail are offered to all devatās of patnīsaṁyāja. Vide Jai. XII. 4. 10-16 and III. 3. 20-23 on this. Iḍā is cut from the hairless portion of the tail for hotṛ and from the hairy portion for the āgnīdhra and the rest of the tail is handed over to the sacrificer's wife who passes it on to the adhvaryu or some brāhmaṇa. The śamitṛ had so far partaken of nothing, but he is now given the shoulder of the victim, but if he be not a brāhmaṇa he gives it to a brāhmaṇa.