190 Rajendralala Mitra — Beef in Ancient India. [No. 2, 
The liver being thus extracted, it should be cut, stuck on the two gam- 
bhari sticks, washed, and then heated on the cooking fire. Proceed- 
ing then to the sacrificial fire, an offering is to be made to it with a bit 
of the liver. Sitting then on the south side of that fire, the meat is to be 
cooked, and butter be dropped on it while cooking. The roast being in 
this way completely dressed, it should be placed on the leaves of the plaksha 
tree (Ficus infect oria), and further offerings made to the two fires. On this 
occasion rice is likewise cooked, and the carcass being then cut up into 
eleven principal parts, such as the heart, the tongue, the briskets, &c. besides 
other minor parts, they are all to be cooked at the samitra fire. The heart 
is to be stuck on a spit and carefully roasted over the fire so as to make it 
tender, clarified butter being subsequently poured on it to complete the 
dressing.* On the completion of the operation, the different kinds of cooked 
meat and rice should be offered to the sacrificial fire with appropriate man- 
tras, each ending with the word svdhd. If the meat and rice be offered 
separately, then separate evish{aki~it or final offerings are to be made for 
each of them, otherwise one final-offering would suffice for all. The roast 
should be offered last without any mantra. The mantras enjoined are all 
extracts from the Sanhlta of the Rig Veda. 
These rules, simple as they are, are nevertheless too complicated for a 
feast to be improvised whenever a respectable guest honours a house ; and for 
such a purpose, therefore, a separate set of rules have been provided in which 
the order of the guest to slaughter, given in a Rig Vedic verse, followed 
by another when immolating, is held sufficient. The ceremony is called 11a- 
dhuparka, or the offering of honied meal. The persons for whom this cere- 
mony was imperative, were ritvigs, kings, bridegrooms, Vedic students on 
their return home after the completion of their studies, A'charyas or tutors 
coming to a house after a year’s absence, fathers-in-law, uncles, and generally 
all men of high rank.t The first duty of the householder on the arrival of 
a guest belonging to any of these classes was, after salutation, to offer a seat. 
This was ordinarily a mat made of^kus'af grass, and in the case of ritvijas 
* VTfa tot: ufuurf^rnfvr tot *gfr- 
ttoto i ^>4 fsnn to l TO9ipTf*r 
ssrfvr Trernfq frowsr I *nf*r *Tfro: i VTO 
hi??} uvnqqffr tot jyff uqffr i to to 
vq' 3TS‘Afr. frimq<?Tsrrf^r ii ^ il 
t toto:, 'pKixjnm- 
TjvJ; ^ || || Gautama apud Kulluka Bhatta ; Mauu, 
III, 120. 
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