Talk:Daspavita
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daśāpavitra Vedic sacrifices were very common during the early phase of Hinduism. Among the various yāgas or sacrifices, the Somayāgas were performed with the soma juice, the soma plant being a special kind of creeper. This creeper had to be crushed for extracting the juice and then filtered. The strainer was the daśāpavitra and the vessel into which the juice would get collected, the droṇakalaśa.
The daśāpavitra was made of the wool cut from a living ram, the wool being white. The dimensions had to conform to the directions given in the Srautasutras.