Praśna 7, Kaṇḍikā 17

1. The Adhvaryu should wash and arrange utensils relating to the Paśupuroḍāśa as are used for preparing an oblation of the grains.

2. He should prepare two strainers, and say to the sacrificer, “Do you restrain speech, O sacrificer.”

3. Restraining his speech, the Adhvaryu should move his hand around the utensils.

4. He should pour out paddy for the Paśupuroḍāśa on eleven or twelve potsherds to be offered to that divinity to which the animal is to be offered.

5. He should release his speech with the utterance of the call to the preparer of the oblation-material, and then give out the direction in respect of the dissection of the animal.

6. He should give out the call, “Do thou net turn over (the inner side of) the rectum with anus; do thou not turn over (the inner side of) the large intestine; do thou put together the testis with penis, the pancreas, the spleen, the pericardium, and the fat.”

7. The organs of the animal should be cooked in a pitcher.

8. The immolator should prick the heart with the pike. The Adhvaryu should bake the cake after having prepared it with the water purified with the relevant formula.^[1]

9. He should pour down the wash-water on the strewn Barhis itself.

10. After the organs of the animal have been cooked, the Adhvaryu should offer the cake.^[2]

11. He should say (to the Maitrāvaruṇa), “Do you recite the puronuvākyā for the cake to be offered to Indra-Agni.” “Do you direct the Hotṛ to recite the yājyā for the cake to be offered to Indra-Agni.”

12. With regard to the sviṣṭakṛt offering, “Do you recite the puronuvākyā for Agni.” “Do you direct the Hotṛ to recite the yājyā for Agni.”

13. The officiating priests, with the Maitrāvaruṇa as the sixth, should consume the Iḍā which has been invoked.

14. They should sprinkle themselves with water.

15. At this stage the Adhvaryu should offer the oblations of the husks and the leavings of the dough^[3] pertaining to the Paśupuroḍāśa.

16. He should discard the potsherds.

17. He should take up the pṛṣadājya into the Juhū and inquire three times:^[4]

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

I.11.12.

[2]:

Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra VII.22.11: After having offered the omentum, the Adhvaryu should offer the cake; or he should do so as soon as the organs have been cooked. Regarding the direction contained in Taittirīya-saṃhitā VI.3.10.1, namely, that the Adhvaryu [??ould] pour out paddy for the cake after having immolated the animal, Dhūrtasvāmin says that after the formal dedication of the animal the Adhvaryu should arrange the utensils, prepare the cake, and place it within the altar and then proceed with the rites to be performed after the formal dedication, beginning with the churning out of the fire.

[3]:

III.9.4.

[4]:

See the next sūtra.