Shantikamalakara 10.11

10.11

Then the sacrificer, having dug a knee-deep pit in the south-east of the house at the Ākāśa position, having smeared it with cow-dung, having decorated it with white sandalwood, flowers, unbroken rice grains, and other articles, having thrown in the seven seeds beginning with rice, and curd-rice, taking with both hands a new pitcher filled with water, containing a single white flower, and worshipped with fragrant substances and so forth, having touched the earth with both knees, should fill the pit with that water reciting ‘Oṃ, obeisance to Varuṇa’.