Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.6267

c6.6267

udaka-pūrvam (IA 7), also expressed as udak-ātisargeṇa, ‘with libations of water’; refers to the custom of pouring water in the hand of the donee while making the ceremonial gift of an object which cannot be placed in the latter’s hands. Cf. *Dravyasya nāma gṛhṇīyād=dadān=iti tathā vadet | toyaṁ dadyāt=tato haste dāne vidhir=ayaṁ smṛtaḥ ||* (Agni Purāṇa, Ch. 209, verses 49-50).