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3, 1. Most probably this rule should be divided into two Sūtras, so that atha darsapūrṇamāsau would stand as the heading of the chapter; comp. below, chap. 18, 1, atha caturthīkarma; chap. 24, 1, atha jātakarma, &c. ↩︎

‘If this is expressly stated, the oblation is to be made in night-time; for instance, at the Vāstoṣpatīya ceremony it is stated, “The tenth oblation of the Sthālīpāka, to Agni Sviṣṭakṛt at night” (see below, III, 4, 8).’ Nārāyaṇa. ↩︎

On vighana, which I have translated thin, see the note in the German edition, pp. 119 seq. ↩︎

For instance, the taking of the portion of food destined to Agni should be performed with the Mantra: Agnaye tvā jushtaṃ gṛhṇāmi, &c. A number of ceremonies common to the Sthālīpāka ritual and to the ordinary ritual of Ājya oblations, such as the strewing of Kuśa grass round the fire, the ceremonies regarding the Pavitras (strainers), &c., have to be supplied here from the Ājya ritual given below (ch. 7 seq.); this may be looked upon as an argument in favour of our conjecture which will be stated in the preface (vol. ii of the Gṛhya-sūtras), that our text, as probably is the case also with the Pāraskara-sūtra, is based on an original, the opening sentences of which are preserved to us in Śāṅkh. I, 5, 1-5 = Pāraskara I, 4, 1-5, so that the first chapters of Śāṅkhāyana, and among them the exposition of the festivals of the full and new moon, would have been prefixed to the original commencement of the text. ↩︎

On the avadānadharmās comp. Weber, Indische Studien, X, 95; Hillebrandt, Neu- und Vollmondsopfer, pp. 122 seqq. ↩︎

The Anvārambhaṇīyā-iṣṭi is the sacrifice taught in the Śrauta texts which is to be performed before the sacrificer for the first time offers the Darśapūrṇamāsa sacrifice. See Weber, Indische Studien, X, 330; Hillebrandt, loc. cit., p. 185. The deities of this ceremony are Agnīviṣṇū, Sarasvatī, and Sarasvat. ↩︎

Comp. the expiatory sacrifice prescribed in the Pariśiṣṭa book, V, 4. ↩︎

The text here passes over from the two monthly sacrifices to the two daily ones, which correspond to the Agnihotra of the Śrauta ritual. ↩︎

14, 15. These are the same deities who are worshipped also at the Agnihotra. ↩︎

Śrauta-sūtra II, 6, 9-11. Comp. p. 120 of the German edition. ↩︎