History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c53.9

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All three animals in the sautrāmaṇī may be goats. A fourth animal was offered to Bṛhaspati under certain circumstances (Āp. XIX. 2. 1-2). Though the omentum of the victims was offered to Aśvins, Sarasvatī and Indra, the paśupuroḍāśas were offered to Indra, Savitṛ and Varuṇa (Āśv. III. 9. 2). This rite was performed at the end of Rājasūya or for one who performs *cayana* or for one who suffers from purging due to excessive drinking of soma beverage or who vomits soma or from the openings of whose body (except the mouth) soma flows out. The independent (*kaukilī*) sautrāmaṇī was performed for a brāhmaṇa who desired prosperity, or for a king who was driven from his kingdom or for one who had no cattle (Kāt. XIX. 1. 2-4). In the beginning and at the end there was a *caru* to Vditi.