व्यवहारमयूख (नीलकण्ठ भट्ट - पश्चिमी भारत की हिन्दू न्याय-संहिता एवं व्यवहार कोष)

146 VYAVAHĀRAMAYŪKHA [ S. IV 7 29-31
M. p. 74 ll. 5-19
and the like (are to effected) by a single performance (for the whole family¹)
Hence Śākala says:
For those who reside (together) and cook their food together the worship
of the idols in the house and the vais'vadeva also are single but in the case
of those who are divided (these are performed) in each house (separately)
As to what Ās'valāyana (as quoted) in the Pārijāta says
Of those who reside and cook their food together though divided the chief
(i e the manager or head) alone should perform the four yajñas (daily
sacrifices) which are preceded by vāgyajña (study and teaching of the Vedas).
Men of the regenerate classes separated and unseparated who cook their food
separately should every day separately perform before their meals the (five)
yajñas²
it refers to those who are reunited since the clause vibhaktānām
api ekapākena vasatām (who even though divided reside and cook
their food together) and the words vibhaktāh avibhaktās'ca (first
separated and then joined together) convey that fact.³ Therefore in case
re-united members cook their food separately the (five daily) mahāyajñas
are to be performed separately. Vāgyajña (in the above verses) means
brahmayajña Tatpūrvakān⁴ (preceded by it i e by brahmayajña)

1. It is to be noticed that Kamalākara a first cousin of Nīlakaṇṭha, lays down some
   what different rules on the points touched upon by Nīl. Vide notes to V. M. p. 230. For
   Vaiśvadeva vide Manu III 84-90.
2. The five daily yajñas to be performed by every twice-born householder are men-
   tioned by Manu III 70. They are Brahmayajña Pitṛyajña Devayajña Bhūtayajña and
   Nṛyajña. Brahmayajña means study and teaching of Vedas. Brahmayajña is enume-
   rated as the first of the yajñas in Manu and elsewhere.
   3 Nīlakaṇṭha seems to take the words 'avibhaktā vibhaktāś ca' in the reverse
   order as meaning first separated and then joined i e. reunited after separation. But
   this is somewhat farfetched. According to him the two verses lay down two propositions
   about reunited persons. If they cook their food together in one place the manager or head
   alone should perform the five yajñas. If even after reunion they continue to cook separately
   they should perform the yajñas separately.
   4 In a bahuvrīhi compound two words are so related that they together refer to a
   third word of which they together become the attribute. Bahuvrīhi compounds are of two
   kinds. When we say 'citragum ānaya' (bring the man who owns variegated cows) it is
   the man who is brought and not the cows, that is the bahuvrīhi compound chitra-gu (con-
   taining two words citra and gau) refers to an individual who is himself apart from the
   import of the two words citra and gau. Therefore such bahuvrīhi compounds are called
   atadguṇasaṁvijñāna; in which there is no direct contact or there is no inherence of the
   things denoted by the two words of the compound in the individual that is indicated by the
   compound). But if we say celasaṁvītam ānaya (bring the man who wears variegated clothes)
   the man who is brought comes along with the variegated clothes, i. e., here the individual in-
   dicated by the two words forming the bahuvrīhi compound is not apart from what is the im-
   port of the two words, but he is in direct contact with the clothes he wears. Such com-
   pounds are called tadguṇasaṁvijñāna (in which there is direct contact of or inherence of
   things denoted by the two words constituting the bahuvrīhi with the thing indicated by the
   compound). The word vāgyajñādayasteṣāṁ (of which vāgyajña is the first) is a tadguṇasaṁ-