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the place of a sacrifice, the manner of offering various
oblations, the time for the offering, the measurements etc.
of the sacrificial implements like arani, pramantha, sruva,
sruc, mek峁�a峁嘺, etc., and describes the procedure of ritual
in general. The second prapathaka mentions the origin and
importance of vy盲hrtis. Then it turns to the marriage
ceremony and first mentions the age proper for the wedding of
a girl. It is stated that she should be given away in
marriage before she attains the age of puberty. Then the
marriage-ceremony is described. Further the manner of wear-
ing the sacred thread is mentioned and then argha, madhu-
parka and gr盲ddha are described. It is said at the end that
if one can afford to fead aks only one Brahmana at a gr盲ddha
ceremony, he should select a Chandoga only; because all the
Vedas # rest in a Chandoga. The GOP thus deals with a number
of topics but does not describe any of them in full; hence
it appears scrappy and fragmentary in character.
9 Hillebrandt has mentioned the names of many more
Parisista texts such as the Bahvrcagrhyaparisista, the
V膩jasaneyin p., the Bharadvaja p., the Baudhayana p., the
Maitrayaniya p., the Manava p., the Kathaka p., the
Carayaniya p., the Laug盲ksi p., the Devap盲la p., and the
Brahmabala P. But none of these texts is available in print.
[The
AVP constitute, by far, the most voluminous group
(9) op. cit. p. 38.