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...
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Pra艣na 9, Ka峁囜笉ik膩 17
1. A 叠谤补丑尘补肠腻谤颈苍, 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 Pa艣upuro岣嵞伵沘.[1]
4. The sacrifice should be concluded with the invocation of I岣嵞� or the recitation of the 艢a峁儁uv膩ka.
5. The ass should be offered either to 狈颈谤峁泃颈 or to 笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈.[2]
6. 狈颈谤峁泃颈 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 诲补办峁峁嚹� of that sacrifice[4] to one whom he hates.
10. Whatever portion might have been burnt, the expiation-rite should be performed. So says 膧艣尘补谤补迟丑测补. If the remaining portion is not enough for the portions of the oblation (then only the expiation-rite should take place). So says 膧lekhana.
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 The formulas beginning with the one impelling the taking up of the ladle[6] should be repealed.[7]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 膧辫补蝉迟补尘产补-艣谤补耻迟补-蝉奴迟谤补 IX.15.2, there should be the Pa艣upuro岣嵞伵沘 offering, and the cake for the same should be baked on ground, not on potsherds.
[2]:
[3]:
That is to say, one should repeat the performance.
[4]:
That is, the sacrifice of the burnt offering. 膧辫补蝉迟补尘产补-艣谤补耻迟补-蝉奴迟谤补 IX.15.7 records a view that the remnants of the burnt oblation should also be given away as 诲补办峁峁嚹�.
[5]:
= 膧辫补蝉迟补尘产补-艣谤补耻迟补-蝉奴迟谤补 IX.15.10.
[6]:
II.16.2.
[7]:
= 膧辫补蝉迟补尘产补-艣谤补耻迟补-蝉奴迟谤补 IX.15.11. Or only such formulas should be recited as pertain to the remaining rites.
[8]:
This view is held by 膧辫补蝉迟补尘产补-艣谤补耻迟补-蝉奴迟谤补 IX. 15.13.