History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c51.149

v3.c51.149

Then follows the Avabhṛtha (the final purificatory bath). The procedure of this is an iṣṭi. Jaimini, however, in X. 7. 47-50 lays down that the avabhṛtha is a special rite and therefore all that takes place in the darśapūrṇamāsa iṣṭi does not follow as a matter of course. A fuel-stick is laid on fire, a veda bunch is made, kuśa is strewn round the fires (that is paristaraṇa), the necessary yajñapātras are placed with mouths downwards. No *idhma* is brought and some do not even prepare the vedi. Only four ladlings of ājya are taken in all the ladles (sruc). The nirvāpa is only for a cake to Varuṇa on one potsherd (Āp. XIII. 19. 3). There are no praṇītā waters (Sat. IX. 5. p. 938), and no girding up of the wife (vide above p. 1040 for it). The ājya in the ladles and the grains taken out for puroḍāśa are placed on the shoulder (north corner on eastern side) of the uttaravedi. The sacrificer takes out from its pit the post of udumbara (audumbarī in the sadas), places it on the hide and board used in extracting soma juice and all other utensils except the four sthālīs viz. the āgrayaṇa, ukthya, āditya-sthālī and dhruvāsthālī (vide Tai. Br. I. 4. 1 for these four sthālīs of clay) that are smeared with soma in the space between the cātvāla pit and the utkara or on the northern shoulder of the vedi on the large stool (āsandī) used for soma.