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 11
1. Each one should consume the southern vājina.
2. The northern vājina with the mantra, “May booty, the food of Vājins guard us, the immortal semen virile sprinkled for strength. May it give us power and wealth. Consuming the vājina, may we not be harmed. I, invited, consume it which is invited.”
3. Both the Adhvaryu and the Pratiprasthātṛ should discard their respective ladles on the prop of the pole.
4. The Adhvaryu alone should make the Patnīsaṃyāja offerings.
5. Both should offer the Samiṣṭayajus as in the Animal-sacrifice.[1]
6. The Iṣṭi should come to an end in the prescribed manner.
7. All should proceed to the Avabhṛtha with the husks of grains and the scrapings of the āmikṣā for Varuṇa.
8. The entire rite of the Avabhṛtha should be performed[2] except the chanting of the Sāman,[2] the reciting of the formula on the way[3] and the consuming of the sediment of Soma.[4]
9. The husks of the grains take the place of the sediment of Soma.
10. The scrapings of the āmikṣā for Varuṇa take the place of the cake on one potsherd for Varuṇa.[5]
11. Or, one may pour out paddy for the cake on one potsherd for Varuṇa.
12. He should take out a portion of the same together with the scrapings of the āmikṣā for Varuṇa and make the offering.
13. Or the Avabhṛtha rite should not be performed according to the one prescribed in the Soma-sacrifice.
14. The Adhvaryu should throw into the water the husks of grains and the scrapings of the āmikṣā[6] without reciting any mantra.
15. The sacrificer and his wife should wear other garments, and come up.
16. If they so desire, they should give away these (old) garments to whom soever they may desire to give.
17. After having returned to the sanctuary, the Adhvaryu should divide (and shave) the sacrificer’s hair.
18. The dividing of the hair and the observance of the vow have already been explained.[7]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
VII.22.17.
[2]:
XIV.20-23.
[3]:
XIV.21.6,7.
[4]:
XIV.22.16.
[5]:
XIV.20.4.
[7]:
VIII.4.12-17.