[INDOLOGY] 22 sacrifices

Fri Feb 4 20:56:22 UTC 2022

Lovely explanation! Thank you!!! 

> On Feb 4, 2022, at 12:38 PM, Lubin, Tim <LubinT at wlu.edu> wrote:
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> Dear Herman,
>  
> If the number is 21 rather than 22 (as the passage you quote indicates), it may refer to the 7 somayajñas + 7 haviryajñas (iṣṭi rites) + 7 pākayajñas, a comprehensive rubrication of Vedic ritual laid out in the Karmāntasūtraappended to the Baudhāyana Śrautasūtra (24.4).  Baudhāyana Gṛhyasūtra 1.1.1–12 describes the seven pākayajñas as:
> huta: “when [the offering] is made in the fire” (yad dhūyate)
> prahuta: “when, after a fire-offering, something is given” (yad dhutvā dīyate)
> āhuta: “when, after a fire-offering and a gift, something is received” (yad dhutvā dattvā cādīyate)
> śūlagava: “when they skewer pieces of cow-meat on spits and cook them” (yac chūleṣūpanikṣya[1] <x-msg://2/#_ftn1> gavyāni śrapayanti)
> baliharaṇa: “when they scatter food for the gods of the household” (yad gṛhyābhyo devatābhyo ’nnaṃ saṃprakiranti)
> pratyavarohaṇa: “when they adopt the low bed from season to season” (yad ṛto ṛtuṃ pratyavarohanti)
> aṣṭakāhoma: “when food is prepared during the ekāṣṭaka rite” (yad ekāṣṭakāyām annaṃ kriyate)[2] <x-msg://2/#_ftn2>
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> The classification into seven here reflects a desire for symmetry with the two types of śrauta rites to yield three 7-member lists — pākayajña, haviryajña, somayajña — as stated in BGParibhāṣasūtra 1.6.22. 
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> For my discussion of this, see:
> “Baudhāyanīya Contributions to Smārta Hinduism,” in: Vedic Śākhās: Past, Present, Future. Proceedings of the Fifth International Vedic Workshop, Bucharest 2011, edited by Jan E.M. Houben, Julieta Rotaru & Michael Witzel. Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora 9 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 2016), pp. 591–606.
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> Warm wishes,
> Tim
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> Reply-To: "Tieken, H.J.H. (Herman)" <H.J.H.Tieken at hum.leidenuniv.nl <mailto:H.J.H.Tieken at hum.leidenuniv.nl>>
> Date: Friday, February 4, 2022 at 3:21 PM
> To: INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>>
> Subject: [INDOLOGY] 22 sacrifices
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> Dear List members,
> In Puṟanāṉūṟu 166 a brahmin is described who had "performed to perfection all twenty-one kinds of sacrifices" (trsl. Hart and Heifetz). I am at a loss which 22 sacrifices are referred to here; that is to say, I do not know where to look. I hope someone has a suggestion.
> With kind regards, Herman
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> [1] <x-msg://2/#_ftnref1> em.; upanikṣyā N; upanitya Bh; folio missing in B; here and in similar contexts, M and C have upanīkṣya (M listing upanikṣipya as a variant).
> [2] <x-msg://2/#_ftnref2> Mentioned already at BŚS 3.10.5.
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