History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c51.46

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The upasad mantras show that they have reference to the sieges of iron, silver and gold castles. How these mantras came to be inserted here it is difficult to say. Vide Śat. Br. III. 4. 4. 3-4 (for the cities and their siege). Āp. XI. 4. 8 adds that if a hostile king gives battle or attacks the capital of a kṣatriya performing a soma sacrifice, on the first upasad a piece of iron should be placed in the sruva ladle and offered along with the clarified butter, on the 2nd upasad a piece of silver and on the 3rd a piece of gold should be so placed. The yājyās of the morning upasad become the anuvākyās in the afternoon and vice versa. Jaimini (X. 7. 43-46) establishes that Upasads are special iṣṭis (apūrva) and only those parts that are expressly stated in the texts are to be performed in them and not others that occur in the model iṣṭi. The procedure of upasad is like upāṁśuyāja (Śat. VII. 4. p. 666).