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 8, Kaṇḍikā 2

1. The rites up to the morning milking should be similar.[1]

2. He should add the evening milk to the hot morning milk. When the āmikṣā is formed, he should extract out the liquid portion, (thus) separate the āmikṣā from the vaājina, put the āmikṣā and the vājina in two different vessels, sprinkle the āmikṣā with some portion of the vājina, and keep the remaining vājina knowingly.

3. He should put the oblations over the fire, pour down the wash-water for the Āpyas, and then do the second tracing out of the altar.

4. The rites up to the call (to the Āgnīdhra) should be similar.[2]

5. He should modify the ending portion of the call as, “Do thou come up with clarified butter and curds.”

6. The rites up to the taking up of clarified butter should be similar.[3]

7. He should take up the clarified butter into the ladles as in the Animal-sacrifice.[4]

8. The difference is only this:

9. He should take the clarified butter into the pṛṣadājyadhānī with the two formulas out of those prescribed for taking up clarified butter into the Upabhṛt,[5] and take curds two times with the formula, “Thou art the milk of the great (cows), the body of Viśve Devas,”[6] (recited each time).

10. At last he should take clarified butter with one of the formulas prescribed for taking up clarified butter into the Upabhṛt.

11. He should follow this procedure, if he is performing the sacrifice on the full-moon day of Caitra.

12. If he is performing it on the full-moon day of Phālguna, he should take up the pṛṣadājya from the mixed quantity as in the Animal-sacrifice.[7]

13. The rites up to the taking down of the oblation should be similar.[8]

14. After having taken down the cake on one potsherd, he should surround it with clarified butter.

15. He should keep its surface visible.[9]

16. He should place the oblations (within the altar) with the vyāhṛtis, bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, and suvaḥ.[10]

17. He should place the vājina on the rubbish-heap.

18. At the expiry of one year he should place them with these (vyāhṛtis) only.

19. After having placed the oblations, he should go through the churning out of the fire following the procedure of churning.[11]

20. Seventeen sāmidhenī verses should be recited.

21. The rites up to the Prayājas should be similar.[12]

22. He should offer nine Prayājas.

23. At every fourth Prayāja, he should bring (into the Juhū) clarified butter from the Upabhṛt. At the last time he should bring in the entire quantity.

24. Instead of pouring out clarified butter into the Upabhṛt,[13] he should pour it on the pṛṣadājya.

25. The rites up to the offering of the principal oblations should be similar.[14]

26. He should go through the offering of the cake to Savitṛ and the cake on one potsherd (to Dyāvāpṛthivī) by following the upāṃśu procedure.[15]

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

I.15.5.

[2]:

II.3.11.

[3]:

II.7.1.

[4]:

cf. VII.7.6,7.

[5]:

II.3.3.

[6]:

Taittirīya-saṃhitā III.2.6.1.

[7]:

VII.7.8.

[8]:

II.10.3.

[9]:

According to Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra VIII.2.10, he may or may not keep its surface visible.

[10]:

The sacrificer should follow the placing of the oblations with the pañcahotṛ formula cf. Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra VIII.2.12.

[11]:

VII.9.12.

[12]:

II.16.2.

[13]:

II.16.10.

[14]:

II.17.8.

[15]:

II.18.3.

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