History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c51.101.3

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Then the hotṛ, adhvaryu and pratiprasthātṛ partake of the remnants of the contents of the cups offered to the double deities (Indra and Vāyu, Mitra and Varuṇa, the two Aśvins). Vide Āp. XII. 25. 13. A keen controversy is carried on in the sūtras whether the adhvaryu or hotṛ drinks first. Vide Āp. XII. 24. 6, Kāt. IX. 11. 12-17. The contents of the cup for Indra-vāyu are drunk twice and of the rest once. The mantra in all cases of the drinking of soma by the priests is 'vāgdevī juṣāṇā somasya tṛpyatu saha prāṇena svāhā' (Vāj. S. VIII. 37, Āp. XII. 24. 11. 12, Kāt. IX. 11. 19, Āśv. V. 6. 22). The remnants in the cups are poured into hotṛcamasa. Then a very small part of the puroḍāśa is thrown into the aindra-vāyava cup by the adhvaryu, a portion of the payasyā in the maitrāvaruṇa cup and the dhānā in the āśvina cup. Vide Jai. III. 8. 33 (where it is said that this effects a saṁskāra of the puroḍāśa &c). The pratiprasthātṛ then keeps these cups on the northern wheel-track of the southern havirdhāna cart. The adhvaryu and other priests make an offering of Vājina (Kāt. IX. 12. 1). The several priests drink soma from their camasas (in a rather complicated manner, for which vide com. on Kāt. IX. 12. 3 and Āp. XII. 25. 16-23). The hotṛ drinks once from all camasas and twice from his own camasa, the maitrāvaruṇa and other priests drink from their own camasas twice (Āp. XII. 25. 19-21).²⁵⁹⁸ On drinking soma the priests touch their mouth and heart with Ṛg. VIII. 48.