Manual of the Nine Planets Sacrifice

57 Having spread the underlayer of clarified butter in the butter-potoriginal: "ajyasthali" — A specific vessel used to hold the ghee (clarified butter) during a Vedic sacrifice. where the gods are invited...

...by the fire, then the oblationoriginal: "havis" — Any substance, such as grain or butter, offered into the sacred fire. [is taken] from the middle and from the east. 58 Thus, this bowing... [a portion is taken] from the west. In this manner, the ritual portionoriginal: "avadana" — A specific cut or portion taken from the main sacrificial offering to be cast into the fire. of the vessels...

...is known in the mantras and other rites. 59 Having placed that back, and having performed? the lifting of the oblation in sequence. In the second and subsequent sacrificesoriginal: "yaga", the ritual portion is taken starting from the east and so on.

60 ...from the north?, the middle, the east, and the west. ...

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In the ancestral riteoriginal: "ashtaka" — Rituals performed for the forefathers, typically on the eighth day after a full moon., having taken all the portions with the ladle while remaining pure. 61 The turn of the fire should indeed be according to the observation of all the priests. 5 The other ritual portions go by way of the curved vessel?. 62

To prevent the loss of ritual potencyoriginal: "yatayama" — A state where a ritual substance becomes "spent" or "stale," losing its spiritual efficacy., or for the sake of re-sacrificing: clarified butter, or perhaps oil, milk, yogurt, or barley grueloriginal: "yavakam". 63

In the place of the clarified butteroriginal: "ajya", these things are designated, or the remainder is prescribed. Clarified butter is so named because of the purificatory riteoriginal: "samskara" performed on the ingredients...