History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c52.50

v3.c52.50

In the sabhāparva of the Mahābhārata (chap. 33-35) there is a description of the Rājasūya performed by Yudhiṣṭhira, but it is of the vaguest sort and does not go into any details. Vide Jai. IV. 4. 1-4 (the dice-play has no independent fruit and that it, though held for the cow referred to in Āp. XVIII. 19. 2, is not an aṅga of the abhiṣecanīya only, but really of the whole Rājasūya), V. 2. 13-15 (in the offerings called Devasūhavīṃṣi, which are prepared from several kinds of corn, the mortar is one for pounding all the corns one after another), XI. 4. 1-3, XI. 4. 4-7 (the priests chosen at the beginning should continue to work till the end), XI. 4. 8-10 (about the offerings in the houses of the 'ratnins'), XI. 4. 43 (the mantra recited at the time of beating corn in the mortar has to be repeated in the Devasūhavīṁṣi); II. 3. 3 (holds that the iṣṭi in which puroḍāśas are offered to Agni and others and in which the fees are various such as gold and which is called Aveṣṭi is a separate iṣṭi and that though in the Rājasūya it is performed only by a king, it can be performed independently of Rājasūya by a brāhmaṇa in a somewhat different order of offerings).²⁶⁵⁹