History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c51.153.2

v3.c51.153.2

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.