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The fifteenth eucharist is the wedding. There are seven domestic
sacrificies (p膩kayaj帽ah): those that have to be performed on the eighth
day after the full moon, those celebrated during the pianetary conjunc-
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tions, post-mortem offerings, the 艣r膩va峁嚹�, the agrahani, the caitri and
the asvajuji. There are eight solemn oblations (haviryaj帽a岣�): installation
of fire (aguyadheyam), oblation to fire (agnihotra), the sacrifice of
the full moon (paurnamasah) and of the new moon (darsam), the rite of
four months (c膩turmasyam), immolation of animals (pasubanana), the rite
devoted to Indra, the "good protector" (sautr膩mani). There are seven
sacrifices of soma: agnistomah, atyagnistoma, ukthya, Sodasin, v膩japeya,
aptoryama and atiratra. 1 sall not enter into the details or this complex
ritualism because they mainly concern Vedic practices; they are exhaustive
ly treated in one of the most outstanding works on the subject
Renou, Vocabulaire du Ritual Vedique, Paris, 1954. There are also listed
among the forty sacrifices the niranyapada, which has a lot of variants,
the sacrifice of the horse (asvamedna) by the help of which the state of
"the head of a household" (grhastha) is reached, and the two last condi-
tions, viz. of the hermit (vanaprastha) and of one who has renounced
worldly existence (samnyasin).
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As a consequence of carrying out this ritualism,
eight qualities of soul will strengthen: compassion for all creatures,
lack of envy, purity, acting without harming others,
concentration upon good actions, elevation of feeling and contentment.
There is a last series of classic rites that received a powerful tantric
tint when they were assumed by Saiva tantra: the investiture of the cord,