[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v3.c51.3.2 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c51.3.2 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c51.3.2 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c51.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c51.3.2) In the following pages only a skeleton outline of Agniṣṭoma is presented, derived from the principal Śrauta sūtras. Jai. in VI. 2. 31 declares that the performance of Jyotiṣṭoma is obligatory on all members of the three higher varṇas, just as upanayana is, since the word brāhmaṇa in Tai. S. VI. 3. 10. 5 (a brāhmaṇa when born comes charged with three debts) is only illustrative. Agniṣṭoma is so called because in it Agni is praised or because the last chant (\*stotra\*) is addressed to Agni.²⁵³² It is to be performed in \*vasanta\* (spring) every year and on the New Moon or Full Moon day (Āp. X. 2. 2, 5 and 8, Kāt. VII. 1. 4 and Sat. VII. 1 p. 562). The general view expressed in Jai. IV. 3. 37 was that one should perform a soma sacrifice after having performed darśapūrṇamāsa, cāturmāsyas and paśu sacrifice, but some held that it could be performed even before darśa-pūrṇamāsa, but after agnyādhāna (Āśv. IV. 1. 1-2 and Sat. VII. 1. p. 556). Jai. (V. 4. 5-9) also states this as the view of some. Jaimini, however, declares that all modifications of the Agniṣṭoma must be performed after one has begun to perform darśapūrṇamāsa (V. 4. 26). The intending sacrificer sends a person called \*somapravāka\* (inviter to officiate at a soma sacrifice) to invite brāhmaṇas who are thorough masters of the Veda, neither too young nor too old, with clear and loud voices and not deficient in any limb (Tāṇḍya Br. I. 1. 1, Drāhyāyaṇa Śr. I. 1. 10, Āp. X. 1. 1). - [Previous: v3.c51.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c51.3.1) - [Next: v3.c51.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c51.3.3) - [Up: v3.c51.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c51.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c51.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c51.3.2) · Pramāṇa