History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c51.153
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c51.153
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The prayājas and anuyājas are offered as in darśapūrṇamāsa (except to God Barhis). Jai. (XI. 2. 30-34) lays down that not, only is the principal offering of puroḍāśa offered into water but also all subordinate ones like āghāras. A portion of the puroḍāśa for Varuṇa is offered therein. The rest of the puroḍāśa is offered to Agni and Varuṇa, which becomes the Sviṣṭakṛt offering in this case (Kāt. X. 8. 27, Sat. IX. 5 p. 944). The unnetṛ at the direction of the adhvaryu leads all out of the water (the yajamāna or hotṛ being the first). The yajamāna and his wife put on fresh garments and come out. The cloth with which soma was enveloped is worn as a turban by the yajamāna and that in which soma stalks were tied is worn by the wife and both the pieces of cloth are donated later on in the Udavasānīyā iṣṭi to the adhvaryu (Āp. XIII. 22. 3-4). The priests, the yajamāna and the wife hold each a fuel-stick of udumbara, mutter the Mahīyā ṛk (viz. apāma somam-amṛtā abhūma, Ṛg. VIII. 48. 3), proceed following the unnetṛ towards the sacrificial ground without looking back at the water, perform mārjana in front of the cow-stable (of the sacrificer) and place the fuel-stick (carried by each) on the āhavanīya with 'edhosi &c.' (Tai. S. I. 4. 45. 3) and wait upon that fire with 'apo anvacāriṣam' (Āp. XIII. 22. 6 quoting Tai. S. I. 4. 45. 3). Then follows the Udayanīyā (the concluding iṣṭi). It is performed in the prāgvaṁśa (and not on the specially prepared uttaravedi).
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The procedure is like that for the prāyaṇīyā iṣṭi (already described on p. 1140). In the same sthālī (pot) in which the prāyaṇīyā offering was cooked and to the bottom of which some remnants stick he takes the offering for this iṣṭi. The wife again ties round her waist the yoktra. Prayājas are optional and if not offered no ājya is taken in the juhū. The yājyās and anuvākyās of the prāyaṇīyā become respectively the anuvākyās and yājyās of the Udayanīyā. The order of deities is different, viz. Agni is the first, Pathyā Svasti the last for ājya offerings (Āp. XIII. 23. 4, Sat. IX. 6. p. 950, Aśv. VI. 14. 3). When the Udayanīyā is finished the anubandhyā rite follows²⁶³⁰ (Āp. XIII. 23. 6, Sat. IX. 6. p. 951). A barren cow is to be offered to Mitra and Varuṇa. The procedure is the same as that of Nirūḍha-paśu-bandha. Some sacrificed three anubandhyā cows viz. to Mitra and Varuṇa, to the Viśve Devas and to Bṛhaspati, but Āp. (XIII. 23. 6. 10 and 14) restricts them to Vājapeya, Rājasūya and sattras. Kāt. (X. 9. 14-15) says that instead of the cow, a bull may be offered or only *payasyā* may be offered to Mitra and Varuṇa.²⁶³¹ Āp. XIII. 24. 10 states that in place of the anubandhyā cow the followers of Ṛgveda offered āmikṣā to Mitra-Varuṇa and the offering was made by the hotṛ in front of the havirdhāna shed and all the ceremonies in the archetype iṣṭi up to Iḍā were performed in that rite. After the anubandhyā (or āmikṣā) was offered came the five offerings called Devikā viz.
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a cake on twelve potsherds to Dhātṛ and four oblations of rice cooked in milk in the four sthālīs mentioned above (in which soma had been placed) to Anumati, Rākā, Sinīvālī and Kuhū (Aśv. VI. 14. 15, Āp. XIII. 24. 1-3). The yajamāna shaves his hair and moustache near the southern side of the vedi (Āp. XIII. 23. 16). The āhavanīya fire is taken to the north outside the mahāvedi in an earthen-ware vessel and the kuśas strewn on the vedi are burnt thereon and the smoke issuing therefrom is invoked with a mantra (Sat. IX. 6. p. 954), the adhvaryu offers on the fire (of the kuśas) ground barley from his joined hands (Āp. XIII. 24. 16-17). The fires are then deposited in the araṇis by repeating 'ayam te yoniḥ' (Ṛg. III. 29. 10, Tai. S. I. 5. 2, Vāj. S. III. 14) as stated in Āśv. III. 10. 5. Having given up the sacrificial ground he again produces fire by attrition to the north of the sacrificial ground and the udavasānīyā iṣṭi is performed.²⁶³² In this iṣṭi a cake baked on eight or five potsherds is offered to Agni (Āp. XIII. 25. 5, Sat. IX. 6. p. 956). In this iṣṭi (Āśv. VI. 14. 24) everything is done as in the punarādheya, but the mantras are muttered inaudibly in all cases except the last anuyāja. A bull is the fee or as much gold as will purchase a bull. Instead of this iṣṭi an offering of ājya was made by some (Āp. XIII. 25. 7-8) from the juhū in which twelve ladlings were made with sruva with 'idam viṣṇur' (Ṛg. I. 22. 17).