History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c73.85

v5.c73.85

There is divergence in the offerings also. The Kāṭhaka Gṛ (61. 3), Jaimini Gṛ. 2. 3 and Śāṅ. Gṛ. (III. 12. 2) provide that on the three different Aṣṭakās the offerings are of cooked vegetables, flesh and *apūpas* (cakes), while the Pār. Gṛ. III. 3 and Khādira Gṛ III. 3. 29-30 put *apūpas* for the first Aṣṭakā (and hence Gobhila Gṛ. III. 10. 9 designates it *apūpāṣṭakā*) and boiled vegetables on the last. According to Khādira Gṛ. III. 4. 1 a cow is sacrificed. According to Āśv. Gṛ. II. 4. 7-10, Gobhila Gṛ. IV. 1. 18-22, Kauśika 138. 2, Baud. Gṛ. II. 11. 51-61, on the 8th day very many options are given, viz. either to sacrifice a cow or a ram or a goat; or to offer some jungle flesh that may be available or flesh mixed with sesame and honey, or flesh of the rhinoceros, deer, buffalo, ram, boar, spotted deer, hare, Rohita deer, pigeons, śārṅga and other birds, or an old red goat; fishes or rice cooked in milk so as to form thin gruel, or gifts only of uncooked corn or fruits and roots, or gold may be offered or only grass for cows or oxen or one may burn some thickets in a forest or present jars for holding water to those deeply learned in the Veda or should recite the mantras relating to śrāddhas, saying 'this is the Aṣṭakā I offer,' but one should not remain without observing the Aṣṭakā day in some such manner as the above ⁸⁰⁷