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excrements. Throw away the blood to the Rakshasas. Extract entire (and 
do not puncture in the middle) that part of the entrails which is like an owl 
in shape (the stomach, mnish(u). Your offspring and their children will 
live in peace and never weep ( 'i . e. these operations being done according to 
the ordinances of the s'astra, no injury will befall your family). O slayer 
of cattle, O Adhrigu, accomplish your task ; accomplish it according to rules ; 
O Adhrigu, accomplish it.” # 
The Taittirxya Brahmana is silent as to what should he done with these 
different parts, but the Gopatha Brahmana of the Atharva Yeda supplies the. 
omission. It gives in detail the names of the different individuals who are to 
receive shares of the meat for the parts they take in the ceremony. The 
total number of shares into which the carcass is to be divided is thirty-six, and 
the following persons are to receive one or more shares each, viz . : — 
“ The Prastiita is to receive the two jaws along with the tongue ; the 
Pratihartd, the neck and the hump ; the TTdgata, the eagle-like wings or brisk- 
ets ; the Adhvaryu, the right side chine with the shoulder ; the Upagata, the 
left chine ; the Prutiprasthatai, the left shoulder ; the Brahma and the wife 
of the Rathya, the right rump ; the Brahmanachchhansi, the right hip lower 
down the round ; the Pota, the thigh (leg ?’) ; the Hot:i, the left rump ; the 
Maitravaruna, the left round ; the Achchhavaka, the left leg ; the Neshta, 
the right arm (clod) ; the Sadasya, the left clod ; the master of the house the 
sirloin and some part of the abdomen (flank ? sada and anuka ) ; his wife, 
the loin or pelvic region, which she is to bestow on a Brahman ; the Agni- 
dhra, the stomach ( vanishfu ), the heart, the kidneys, and the right fore leg 
(vdhu) ; the Atreya, the left leg ; the householder who ordains the sacrifice, 
the two right feet ; the wife of the householder who ordains the sacrifice, 
the two left feet ; and both of them in common, the upper lip ; the Gravas- 
tut, three bones of the neck, (vertebra) and the manirjd, whatever that 
be ; the man who leads the cow, three other vertebrae and a half of the perine- 
um ; the Cliamasadhvaryu, the bladder ; the Subrahmanya, the head ; the man 
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