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 9, Kaṇḍikā 18
1. If all the oblations are lost or become defiled, one should take up as many oblations of clarified butter, and perform that Iṣṭi with clarified butter as the principal oblation.[1]
2. Then he should perform another faultless Iṣṭi.[2]
3. An expiation-rite for a sacrifice is performed through a sacrifice only. So is it said.
4. How should one know a defiled oblation? That which is not fit for the consumption by the Āryas who know religion and who desire (to practise) religion. One should not offer a sacrifice to gods with such an oblation.[3]
5. The oblation, which is overcooked, belongs to Yama. It goes to Yama. So is it said.
6. One should dispose of that oblation, cook rice of four panfuls of paddy on the Dakṣiṇa fire in such a manner that the grains would remain intact, and present it to four Brāhmaṇas.[4]
7. One of the consumers of that rice should be one belonging to Bhṛgu gotra.[5]
8. If one cannot give the prescribed dakṣiṇā, he should give fertile land without standing crop.[6]
9. The sacrifice of that sacrificer becomes singed, who performs a sacrifice without giving dakṣiṇā. Thereby the sacrificer would become short-lived.
10. He should (therefore) give fertile land with standing crop.[7]
11. If one invokes a divinity for whom there is no oblation in the sacrifice, one should offer clarified butter to that divinity in that order in which the divinity was invoked.[8]
12. If one leaves out a divinity for whom there is an oblation, one should stop the procedure, and invoke that divinity.
13. He should offer an oblation at that stage with the verse, “What O gods, I have neglected....”[9]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
= Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra IX.15.14.
[3]:
= Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra IX.15.17.
[5]:
= Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra IX.15.19.
[6]:
= Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra IX.15.21.
[7]:
Compare Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra IX.15.20 with sūtras 9 and 10.
[9]:
III.10.2. Sūtras 12,13 = Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra IX.15.23.