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III ADHYÂYA, 14 KHANDA, 6.
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Preparer of cakes! Adoration to thee, O glad-faced one. Svâhâ !
3. A cow or a goat is the animal (to be sacrificed), or a mess of cooked food (should be offered).
4. Or he may optionally offer food to a cow.
5. Or he may optionally burn down brushwood in the forest and say, 'This is my Ashtaka.'
6. But let him not neglect to do (one of these things). But let him not neglect to do (one of these
things).
Here ends the Third Adhyâya.
14, 3-6. This is one of the passages which the author has taken unchanged from a more ancient Sætra ; see Åsv. II, 4, 8-11; Gobhila IV, 1 (end of the chapter). The Sätras do not refer, as their position would seem to indicate, to the third, but to the second Ashtaka.
5. Comp. Weber, loc. cit., p. 342, note 1.
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