History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c50.60

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²⁵²⁸ The Aikādaśina animal sacrifice is a special form of the animal sacrifice, for which Āp. XIV. 5-7 may be consulted. It follows the procedure of savanīya paśu (Jai. VIII. 1. 14). In this there may be thirteen yūpas for eleven paśus or only one yūpa for all paśus. Eleven yūpas are the ordinary ones, the 12th is called upaśaya, the whole of which is chiselled, but is not implanted in a pit like the others; it lies near the yūpa to the south; the 13th is called pātnīvata and it is not higher than the navel when imbedded in the ground. The yūpas are so arranged as to rise on the south side i. e. the southern-most is the tallest of all. The paśu tied to the pātnīvata is meant for Tvaṣṭṛ, but it is let off and ājya is offered. Jai. (II. 3. 19) concludes that when the Vedic text says 'after carrying fire round the pātnīvata victim, it is let off', only a special matter is laid down concerning the pātnīvata victim. He further says (in IX. 4. 56-60) that the ājya offered is not a substitute for the victim, but is a separate rite in which the deity is the same. Vide Kāt. VIII. 8. 27 ff. If there be more yūpas than one, then the saṁskāras from añjana to parivyāṇa (surrounding with a girdle) are all to be done on one, then on another and so on. Vide Jai. V. 2. 7-9.