1 Sprinkling, sprinkling with water; Ms. 5. 118; Y. 1. 184.

2 Consecration by sprinkling.

3 Immolation (of animals) at a sa- crifice.

4 A text to be repeated at an animal-sacrifice. ṇī, prokṣaṇiḥ f. Water used for sprinkling or con- secrating, holy water (used in pl., and sometimes used to denote ‘the vessel containing holy water,’ in which sense the word generally used is prokṣaṇīpātra).