History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c89.125

v7.c89.125

The Vaikhânasasmārtasūtra (IV. 13) provides slightly different kinds of *naivedya* food for the nine planets (as in note 1205) and prescribes separate Vedic mantras for the presiding deities (of the planets) to whom oblations of ghee were to be offered. The Matsya remarks at the end of the description of Ayutahoma: 'just as armour is a protection against the wounds by arrows, so śānti (graha-yajña) is protection against the strokes of Fate.'¹²⁰⁷