Shantikamalakara 10.6_2

10.6_2

The mantra is repeated for each staking [of a peg], and so on below. / For a temple and the like, however, in place of the word 'house', the respective names are to be substituted. / Thus, 'in a temple' and so forth are extended throughout. / Then, according to the order of staking, one should offer offerings of black gram and boiled rice beside the pegs. / Saying: 'To the fires and to the others who are sheltered here, / to them I offer the propitiatory offering, pure and excellent boiled rice,' he should present it. / Then, on a new cloth over the sacrificial altar, with saffron or the like and a pointer of gold, silver, or the like: / 'Śāntā, Yaśovatī, Kāntā, Viśālā, Prāṇavāhinī, / Satī, Sumatī, Sunandā, Subhadrā, Suradhā—ten,' / with these names beginning with Om and ending with namaḥ, commencing in the west / and ending in the east, finishing in the north, straight, / one should draw ten lines spaced two finger-breadths apart. / Again: 'Hiraṇyā, Suvratā, Lakṣmī, Vibhūti, Vimalā, Priyā, / Jayā, Balā, Viśokā, and Īḍā—ten in order,' / with these names, similarly commencing in the south, ending in the north, finishing in the east, / having drawn ten lines as before, and having recollected the Vāstu deity in the fire pit or the smeared ground, having established the fire, having drawn the circle of the nine planets on a cloth upon the southern sacrificial altar, having installed the planets and others there, and having worshipped them with the sixteen services, having installed a sacred pot to the northeast of it, having approached the Vāstu diagram, there, beginning with the square of the northeastern corner, on images or on heaps of unbroken rice grains, one should invoke the deities beginning with Śikhin with name-mantras beginning with Praṇava and ending with namaḥ. / There, in the northeast corner-square, on the head of Vāstu, one should install Śikhin, saying: 'Obeisance to Śikhin, I invoke Śikhin.'