Praśna 9, Kaṇḍikā 10

1. Then one should offer cooked rice to Mitra and a cake on one potsherd to Sūrya.^[1]

2. The Iṣṭi should come to an end in the prescribed manner.

3. After the Iṣṭi is over, the sacrificer and his wife should restrain speech, should not eat anything during the day, and remain enkindling the fire.

4. In the evening one should offer the Agnihotra with the milk of two cows.

5. Next morning he should offer a cake on eight potsherds to vratapati Agni.^[2]

6. The Iṣṭi should come to an end in the prescribed manner.

7. If the sun rises when the Āhavanīya fire is still not carried forth, one should take four spoonfuls of clarified butter, and walk in front.^[3]

8. Behind him a learned Brāhmaṇa belonging to the Ṛṣi should carry forth the fire. Behind him one should walk with the Agnihotra-milk.

9. After having deposited the fire, and having placed the Agnihotra, one should sit down in front of the fire facing the west, and offer an oblatioa of clarified butter with the verse, “May Uṣas receive with her brightness the sacrifice followed by gods, the sweetest (oblation) for gods, svāhā.”

10. Then he should offer the normal Agnihotra.

11. For that offering the procedure should be normal.

12. The expiation-rite, which is prescribed for the contingency of passing over the proper time of Agnihotra, should be regarded as prescribed also here.

13. This much should be different: Here one should not extinguish the Āhavanīya fire.

14. One should offer a cake on eight potsherds to jyotiṣmant Agni.^[4]

15. The Iṣṭi should come to an end in the prescribed manner.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

According to Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra, one should offer either to Mitra or to Sūrya.

[2]:

Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra does not prescribe this.

[3]:

Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra IX.7.1C-12 agrees with sūtras 7-13.

[4]:

This is absent in the Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra.