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A CRITICAL STUDY OF PAUMACARIYA峁�
rent occasions such as those of A峁ａ弓aka, Anva峁ａ弓akya, wedding, 艢奴lagava
sacrifice, reception to a Sn膩taka, honouring of a deseased relation on
the 11th day. Under the Haviryaj帽asoma, the Sankh膩yana 艢rautas奴tra
prescribes the immolation of goats (14.2. 14; 14.6.2;14.7. 5), cow
(14.3. 19; 14. 5. 7; 14.6. 3; 14.75); and barren COWS (14. 2.
15). In the 艢rautr膩mana ceremony a he-goat, an ewe (14.13. 1)
and barren cow (14.13.2) were immolated. In the V膩japeya
Yaj帽a animals such as goat, ram, ewe and cow (XV. 1. 21-22)
were killed. The P膩raskara Grhyas奴tra mentions that in the Madhyama
A峁ａ弓aka ceremony the fat of a cow was oblated (3.3.8-9). The
Gobhila Grhyas奴tra (3.10.18) states that the cow was sacrificed in
the A峁ａ弓aka festival. The Hiranyake艣墨 G峁沨yas奴tra, (2. 5. 15. 8) mentions
that at the time of taking the meat of cow, a part of the cow-meat
was offered to the Br膩hma峁嘺s. The Sulagava sacrifice is prescribed
for procuring cattle, sons, wealth, fame, long life and heavenly
bliss. It is meant for propitiating Rudra and for averting plague
among the cattle". Some of the G峁沨yas奴tras make it symbolical
only and no killing of ox is mentioned 4. The A艣valayana and
the Paraskara Grhyas奴tras describe actual killing of an ox and they
incorporate the cow also as a sacrificial victim". In the V峁涐梗otsarga
Yaj帽a a bull was killed but according to some 峁氠梗is the bull was not
killed6. The Sankhayana 艢rautas奴tra (4.17.11) also mentions the
slaughtering of oxen in sacrifices.
The animal sacrifice is described in the Paraskara G峁沨yas奴tra, (3.11).
In this the animal selected for sacrifice is other than cow (3.11.1). The
limbs of the animal formed the 'dak峁Ｄ�峁嚹�' of the 峁歵vik (3.11.9). It
further mentions that for some expiation an ass also can be sacrificed
(3.12.2). In the Niru岣峢apa艣u Yaj帽a many kinds of animals were
sacrificed in view of fulfilling the special wishes' and it has been already
mentioned that animals were the objects of offering in the Yaj帽as鲁.
Thus the allegations made by the Paumcariya峁� about the slaughter-
ing of animals in the sacrifices is corroborated by the Brahmanical
literature itself. Now it sbould be seen whether the references are
merely literary or actually the animals were immolated.
1. Ibid, p. 109. 222.
2.
See SRL Gr, p. 110.
3. Para, 3. 8. 3.
4. Hiranyakesin G峁沨ya Sutras.
5. SRL, Gr, p. I脥I.
6. P膩ra, 3. 9. 9.
7. Sankhayana Srautas奴tra, 6, 1, 20.
8. Apastambya Taj帽a Paribh膩峁Ｄ�, S奴. 1.