Bharadvaja-srauta-sutra
by C. G. Kashikar | 1964 | 166,530 words
The English translation of the Bharadvaja-Srauta-Sutra, representing some of the oldest texts on Hindu rituals and rites of passages, dating to at least the 1st millennium BCE. The term Srautasutra refers to a class of Sanskrit Sutra literature dealing with ceremonies based on the Brahmana divisions of the Veda (Sruti). They include Vedic rituals r...
Praśna 5, Kaṇḍikā 14
1. Offer the Tanuhavis before the expiry of one year.
2. As the next best alternative, he may offer oblations of clarified butter to pavamāna Agni, pāvaka Agni, and śuci Agni, or to the divinities (complete the sacrifice) and of a Soma-sacrifice (namely, vasumant Indra, rudravant Indra, and ādityavant rbhumant [ṛbhumant?] vibhumant vājavant bṛhaspativant viśvadevyavant Indra), then pour out grains (for the Tanuhavis).
3. Subsequent to this sacrifice, he should offer a cake on eleven potsherds to Agni-Soma, another cake on eleven potsherds to Indra-Soma, and rice cooked in ghee to Aditi.[1]
4. The cake to Agni-Soma should be only in the sacrifice of a Brāhmaṇa sacrificer, not in the sacrifices of the other two social orders.
5. The rites up to the pounding of grains should be gone through as usual.[2]
6. Out of the pounded grains the Adhvaryu should take out a portion for cooking with the formula, intended for division (of the oblation-material).[3]
7. He should crush together the other portions.
8. The rites up to the arranging of the potsherds should be as usual.[4]
9. After having arranged the potsherds for the cake to Indra-Agni, the Adhvaryu should arrange the vessel for cooking the rice with the first of the formulas employed for arranging the potsherds.
10. He should modify the formula[5] as dhruvo'si. or dhruvā'si.
11. He should pour out paddy (into the vessel) following the procedure to be followed in respect of the flour and also purify them (following the relevant procedure).[6]
12. He should purify the clarified butter with the relevant formula,[7] and pour it into the vessel.[8]
13. He should modify the formula suitably.
14. With the formula[9] intended for placing the cake on the fire, he should pour out the grains into the vessel for cooking rice.
15. He should place within the altar the cooked rice in the vessel itself.
16. Henceforward this should be the procedure for cooking rice except the taking up of clarified butter.
17. There should be seventeen sāmidhenī verses.
18. The rites up to the offering of the (principal) oblations should be similar.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra V.22.1 prescribes only the latter two oblations.
[2]:
I.22.9.
[3]:
I.25.8.
[4]:
I.24.6.
[5]:
I.24.3.
[6]:
I.24.11; 25.1.
[7]:
II.6.12.
[8]:
With the formula mentioned in I.25.5.
[9]:
I.25.9.