Purva-Mimamsa in its Sources c32.12

c32.12

‘Transference by Presumed Injunction’ is of three kinds—(1)Transference of Injunction;—an example of this we have cited above; in connection with the Saurya and the Darśa-Pūrṇamāsa:—(2) Transference of Substratum; and instance of this is found under Sū. 2. 1. 25-26, where it is shown that the Sentence—‘One should make an offering of Curds if the Sacrificer be desirous of acquiring efficient Sense-organs’—enjoins only a particular substance in the shape of Curds; and the Substratum of this offering—i.e., the Sacrifice at which the Curd is to be offered, is got at through Transference,—the Agnihotra being the Sacrifice at which the said Curd-offering is to be made;—(3) Transference of Substitutes; an instance of this has been mentioned under, Sū. 3. 5. 47—51; where we find that in the event of certain Sacrifices being performed by the Kṣattriya or the Vaiśya, it has been laid down that when these persons, as Sacrificers, wish to eat the ‘Remnant’, they are to be given, not the Remnant of the Soma-juice, but a decoction of Vaṭa-seeds mixed with Curds; from this Injunction of the Substitute for Soma-juice, it is inferred that the said decoction is to be substituted, not for the Eating only, but also for the offering; that is, when the Sacrifice is performed by the Kṣattriya or the Vaishya, the substance *offered* at the Sacrifice is to consist of the said Decoction,—not of *Soma*-juice.