History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c52.3

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*Ukthya* or *Uktha*. In this there are three more stotras (called uktha stotras) and śastras (called uktha śastras) to be chanted and recited in the evening pressing, thus bringing the total of stotras and śastras to fifteen (Ait. Br. 14. 3, Āśv. VI. 1. 1-3). Āp. XIV. 1. 2 says that the Ukthya, Ṣoḍaśin, Atirātra and Aptoryāma are respectively performed by him who desires cattle, vigour, progeny and cattle, all objects. In the Ukthya an additional victim, a goat (over and above those offered in Agniṣṭoma) is sacrificed for Indra and Agni on the pressing day. Vide Ait. Br. XIV. 3, Āśv. VI. 1. 1-3, Āp. XIV. 1, Sat. IX. 7. pp. 958-959, Haug's tr. of Ait. Br. p. 251 n, S. B. E. vol. 41, pp. XIV-XVI.