History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c51.136

v3.c51.136

The *havis* prepared from the various limbs of the (savanaīya) paśu sacrificed in the morning is then offered (Āp. XIII. 11. 3, Āśv. V. 17. 4). After the *iḍā* is partaken of by the hotṛ, the puroḍāśa (cake baked on 12 potsherds, Sat. IX. 3. p. 920) is offered to Indra and the rest of the procedure up to the laying down of the Nārāśaṁsa cups is followed. Then soma of the third pressing is offered by the adhvaryu from the hotṛcamasa and by the camasādhvaryus from their camasas and as elsewhere the priests and camasādhvaryus partake of the remnants. After the Nārāśaṁsa cups are laid down each of the priests who drink soma from camasas takes from the softest part of the puroḍāśa three small balls (or pills), places them on the ground to the south of his own camasa and they then offer them to their own father, grand-father and great-grand-father with the appropriate mantras²⁶¹⁹ (Āp. XIII. 12. 9, Āśv. V. 17. 5). They mutter the namaskāra mantras (vide note 2438 above) and the sacrificer utters the Ṣaḍ-ḍhotṛ mantras (Āp. XIII. 12.