History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c99.1774

v7.c99.1774

Pratinidhi (substitute or representative); first rule that, if a substance prescribed for preparing an offering perishes or is lost in an obligatory rite or a *kāmya* rite after it is begun, another substance (such as *nīvāras* for rice grain may be substituted 1319; no p. allowed for a mantra, deity, vedic fire, for kriyās like Prayājas or for the Yajamāna (except in Sattras) 53, 1320-21, substitute for wife of sacrificer (if she be dead) was image of her made of gold or or kuśas 53; what is expressly forbidden for use in Vedic sacrifices such as *māṣas* cannot be substitutes for *mudga* 1320, 1347 (*māṣamudganyāya*); when a vedic text expressly prescribes a substitute for a substance (as Pūtīkas for Soma plant) only that substance can be substituted and not another more similar, 1319, when a substitute has to be employed, the subsidiary acts of sprinkling with water, pounding etc. are to be performed on the substitute and the appropriate change in wording by adaptation should be made, 1319-20.