आदिष्टी न-उदकं कुर्याद् आ व्रतस्य समापनात् । समाप्ते तु-उदकं कृत्वा त्रिरात्रेण-एव शुध्यति ॥
ādiṣṭī na-udakaṃ kuryād ā vratasya samāpanāt | samāpte tu-udakaṃ kṛtvā trirātreṇa-eva śudhyati ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
He who has undertaken the performance of a vow shall not pour out libations (to the dead) until the vow has been completed; but when he has it to be an exhortation not to delay the bath which must be taken at the expiration of the period of impurity. The other commentators mention the first explanation only. The second clause, which refers to the continued offering of the -Srauta Agnihotra, means according to
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.