History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c51.11.1

v3.c51.11.1

All these from paring nails (called apsu-dīkṣā)²⁵³⁷ except the cutting of hair are also undergone by the wife at the instance of the pratiprasthātṛ priest (but without mantras). The adhvaryu hands over a fine silken fresh garment to the sacrificer which the latter wears. In the afternoon in the prāgvaṁśa he partakes of food (rice)²⁵³⁸ mixed with ghee and sprinkled over with curds and honey or whatever is liked by him. The wife also does the same. He takes up butter (*navanīta*) with two bunches of darbha grass and smears himself thrice with them beginning from the face. He applies collyrium with a darbha blade twice to the right eye and once to the left or thrice to both. The adhvaryu performs the purification (*pavana*) of the sacrificer outside the prāgvaṁśa to its north by three bunches of seven darbhas each rubbed twice over his body above the navel and once below the navel with mantras and the sacrificer also mutters mantras. The wife also does all this (smearing the body with butter, applying añjana and purification) without mantras at the instance of the pratiprasthātṛ. The sacrificer enters the pavilion by the eastern door and the wife by the western and occupy their respective seats. Then follows dīkṣaṇīyā iṣṭi²⁵³⁹ which is so called because it effects a saṁskāra in the man intending to sacrifice and because after it is performed he is entitled to be called 'dīkṣita'. The conclusion in Jai. V. 3.