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10-11) which are in Tai. Ār. III. 4. Then the Sāvitra cup is offered (Āp. XIII. 13. 1, Āśv. V. 18. 1). The Vaiśvadeva cup is thereafter filled from the Pūtabhṛt trough, but there is no stotra chanted for this cup; the vaiśvadeva śastra however is recited by the hotṛ (Āśv. V. 18. 5-13). Then rice (caru) is boiled for being offered to god Soma. The adhvaryu wears the sacred thread in the prācīnāvīta form, cuts off to the south of the āhavanīya one oblation from the boiled rice with his right hand and another with the mekṣaṇa, crosses to the north of the āhavanīya, and with his face to the south offers in the southern part of the āhavanīya fire the oblations of rice, the yājyā being 'tvaṁ soma pitṛbhiḥ saṁvidānaḥ' (Ṛg. VIII. 48. 13). Ājya is poured on the remnants of the caru in the pot, the adhvaryu sees his face in the clarified butter (Āśv. V. 19. 4), anoints his eyes with the ājya by means of his thumb and ring-finger and then hands over the pot of rice (with ājya therein) to the three udgātṛ priests, who see their reflections in the ājya and if they cannot see their reflection (which is an evil omen) then more ājya is poured and two mantras are repeated (Āśv. V. 19. 5, one being 'bhadraṁ karṇebhiḥ' Ṛg. I. 89. 8) and then again they look for their reflection in the ājya. The āgnīdhra carries lighted roots of darbhas to the several dhiṣṇyas and establishes them thereon as fires and the adhvaryu pours ājya taken afresh in a pot over them while the darbhas are glowing (Āp.