Shantikamalakara 10.7_4

10.7_4

To the north of that, [one should invoke] Vṛṣavāstu: / ‘O Vāstoṣpati’—Vasiṣṭha [is the seer], Vāstoṣpati [is the deity], triṣṭubh [is the metre]; the application is in the invocation of Vāstoṣpati: one should establish [him], whether of gold or silver, with the mantra ‘Oṃ, Vāstoṣpati, acknowledge us.’ Then, outside the diagram in the north-east, south-east, south-west, and north-west corners in order, [one establishes] Carakī, Vidārī, Pūtanā, and Pāparākṣasī; in the east, south, west, and north directions in order, having established Skanda, Aryaman, Jṛmbhaka, and Pilipiccha with their name-mantras as before; in the eight directions beginning with the east, having established and invoked Indra, Agni, Yama, Nirṛti, Varuṇa, Vāyu, Kubera, and Īśāna with their respective mantras or names, and [honoured them] with seat and other services individually or together, having set up an unblemished sacred pot, having cast therein fragrant substances, herbs, barley, dūrvā grass, five sprouts, seven earths, and five gems, having wrapped it with a cloth, having placed a full dish filled with barley [upon it], having invoked Varuṇa, one should invoke the sacred waters therein. Then the ācārya should perform the anvādhāna. There, having recited up to ‘the two eyes with ghee’, having proclaimed the principal deities [as follows]: ‘the nine planets with firewood sticks and oblations of sesame and ghee of such-and-such number; the presiding deities, subordinate deities, Vināyaka and others with firewood sticks and oblations of sesame and ghee of such-and-such number; the forty-five deities beginning with Śikhin with firewood sticks, sesame, milk porridge, and oblations of ghee of such-and-such number; with the four verses beginning with “vāstoṣpate” in order with bilva [fruits] or their fragments of such-and-such number; Carakī and others with the four oblations consisting of firewood sticks and so forth of such-and-such number,’ [and] ‘the sviṣṭakṛt with the remainder,’ he should offer the aforementioned firewood sticks and other substances. Then the sacrificer, seated to the south of the fire, having named all the deities and materials, should renounce them for these [deities]. He should make the renunciation of ownership [with the formula] ‘Not mine,’ and so forth, because in a fire oblation performed by many priests it is impossible to make a renunciation of ownership at every oblation. Then the ācārya, having performed the offering of the kindling and other rites, should perform the principal fire oblation together with the priests.