Praśna 9, Kaṇḍikā 17

1. A Brahmacārin, who approaches a woman (for sexual intercourse), should offer an ass to Rudra.

2. The portions of its organs should be offered into water.

3. Its omentum should not be offered, nor should there be the Paśupuroḍāśa.^[1]

4. The sacrifice should be concluded with the invocation of Iḍā or the recitation of the Śaṃyuvāka.

5. The ass should be offered either to Nirṛti or to Prajāpati.^[2]

6. Nirṛti catches hold of the sacrifice of one whose oblation is burnt.

7. One should conclude the remaining portion of the sacrifice with that portion of the oblation which might have remained intact.

8. A sacrifice itself is the expiation-rite of the sacrifice.^[3]

9. One should give away the dakṣiṇā of that sacrifice^[4] to one whom he hates.

10. Whatever portion might have been burnt, the expiation-rite should be performed. So says Āśmarathya. If the remaining portion is not enough for the portions of the oblation (then only the expiation-rite should take place). So says Ālekhana.

11. The deficient oblation should be thrown into water. So is it said.

12. If the oblation, while it is not apportioned for the relevant divinity, is defiled, one should throw it into water, and pour out other oblation-material for that divinity.^[5]

13. The formulas beginning with the one impelling the taking up of the ladle^[6] should be repealed.^[7]

14. If the oblation, which has been apportioned for the relevant divinity (becomes defiled), one should conclude the remaining rite with clarified butter. This is one view.^[8] One should take up another oblation without reciting any formula. This is another view.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

According to Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra IX.15.2, there should be the Paśupuroḍāśa offering, and the cake for the same should be baked on ground, not on potsherds.

[2]:

The divinity, according to Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra IX.15.4,5, should be either Rakṣas or Nirṛti; if the divinity is Nirṛti, Pākāyajña should be the norm of the offering.

[3]:

That is to say, one should repeat the performance.

[4]:

That is, the sacrifice of the burnt offering. Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra IX.15.7 records a view that the remnants of the burnt oblation should also be given away as dakṣiṇā.

[5]:

= Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra IX.15.10.

[6]:

II.16.2.

[7]:

= Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra IX.15.11. Or only such formulas should be recited as pertain to the remaining rites.

[8]:

This view is held by Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra IX. 15.13.