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Then, the preceptor, having made the ritual resolution: "I shall perform the rite", should scatter white mustard seeds with these mantras: // 1 ### [10.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.2) "Whatever spirit has taken up residence here, clinging perpetually to this place, / let all of that depart leaving this place, and go wherever it dwells! / Let the spirits and piśācas depart in all directions! // 2 ### [10.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.3) Without opposition from anyone, one should commence the propitiatory rite. / Let spirits, ghosts, piśācas, and others, and Rākṣasas depart! / Let them go from this place to another! I take possession of this land." // 3 ### [10.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.4) Then, having combined together cow urine with the Gāyatrī, cow dung with "Gandhadvārām...", / milk with "Ā pyāyasva...", curd with "Dadhikrāvṇaḥ...", ghee with "Ghṛtaṃ mimikṣire...", / and water with kuśa grass with "Āpo hi ṣṭhā...", having stirred it with the syllable Oṃ using kuśa grass, / he should sprinkle all the houses and structures with the triplet beginning "Śucī vo havyā...". // 4 ### [10.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.5) Then, in the front of the house, having fashioned a pit of one cubit's measure of the sacrificer, square, with a vulva, and three girdles, or a raised mound four finger-breadths high, and having fashioned to the east of it two sacrificial altars of clay measuring one cubit and four finger-breadths high, he should fix four pegs at the four corners of the northern sacrificial altar, beginning with the north-east: // 5 ### [10.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.6) He should fix them with the mantra: "Oṃ, may the serpents and the world-protectors enter upon the surface of the earth in all directions; / may they abide in this house, always bestowing long life and strength." // 6 ### [10.6\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.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.' ### [10.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.7) Likewise henceforth: / In the one square to its south, on the right eye, Parjanya; in the square to its south / and the western part from it, in the two squares, on the right ear, Jayanta; / in the two squares to its south, on the right shoulder, Kuliśāyudha; / in the two squares to its south, on the right arm, Sūrya; / in the two squares to its south, on the right arm itself, Satya; / in the two squares to its south, on the right elbow, Bhṛśa; / in the one square situated above to its south, on the right forearm, Ākāśa; / in the southern corner-square, on the right forearm, Vāyu. 7 ### [10.7\_3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.7_3) In the one square to its west, on the right wrist, Pūṣan; / in the square to its west and the square to its north, on the right flank, Vitatha; / in the two squares to its west, on the right flank itself, Gṛhakṣata; / in the two squares to its west, on the right thigh, Yama; / in the two squares to its west, on the right knee, Gandharva; / in the two squares to its west, on the right shin, Bhṛṅgarāja; / in the one square situated above to its west, on the right buttock, Mṛga; / in the one square situated above to its west, on the right buttock, Mṛga; / in the southwestern corner-square to its west, on the feet, the Pitṛs; / in the one square to its north, on the left buttock, Dauvārika; / in the square to its north and the square to its east, on the left shin, Sugrīva; / in the two squares to its north, on the left knee, Puṣpadanta; / in the two squares to its north, on the left thigh, Varuṇa; / in the two squares to its north, on the left flank, Asura; / in the one square situated above to its north, on the left wrist, Pāpa; / in the northwestern corner-square to its north, on the left forearm, Roga; / in the one square to its east, on the left upper arm, Vāha; / in the one square to its east and the square to its south, on the left elbow, Mukhya; / in the two squares to its east, on the left arm, Bhallāṭa; / in the two squares to its east, on the left arm itself, Soma; / in the two squares to its east, on the left shoulder, Sarpa; / in the two squares to its east, on the left ear, Aditi; / in the one square situated in the two squares to its east, on the left eye, Diti; / to its south, in the corner-square below the square of Śikhin, on the face, Āpa; / in the southeast, in the corner-square below the square of Vāyu, on the right hand, Sāvitra; / in the southwest, in the corner-square below the square of the Pitṛs, on the penis, Jaya; / in the northwest, in the corner-square below the square of Roga, on the left hand, Rudra; / among the central squares, in the three squares to the south of the northeastern corner-square, on the right breast, Aryaman; / in the corner-square to its south, on the right hand, Savitṛ; / in the three squares to its west, on the right side of the belly, Vivasvat; / in the southwestern corner-square to its west, on the testicles, Vibudhādhipa; / in the northwestern corner-square to its north, on the left hand, Rājayakṣman; / in the three squares to its east, on the left hand, Pṛthivīdhara; / in the northeastern corner-square to its east, on the chest, Āpavatsa; / in the nine squares in the middle, on the heart and navel, Brahmā. 6 ### [10.7\_4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.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. ### [10.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.8) The respective substances and their respective numbers are now stated: For the nine planets in order, \[one offers\] firewood sticks named arka, palāśa, khadira, apāmārga, pippala, udumbara, śamī, dūrvā grass, and kuśa grass, each measuring a span, one hundred and eight, twenty-eight, or eight in number, and oblations of sesame of the same number. When there is a pot-cooked grain offering for them, the number of oblations is the same; but some say there should be one oblation of pot-cooked grain offering each. Then for the presiding deities, subordinate deities, Vināyaka and others, in lesser number in the same manner; for those house-dwelling deities and others, the firewood sticks of their respective planets, or palāśa; in the view of eight \[oblations\] for the planets, the learned say there are four for these \[deities\]. ### [10.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.9) Here, the count should be made as one oblation with three blades of dūrvā grass, and as one with three blades of kuśa grass. Then, for Śikhin and the others, one should offer firewood sticks, sesame, milk porridge, and ghee with the names ending with svāhā and preceded by the praṇava as stated before, with one thousand and eight, one hundred and eight, twenty-eight, or eight oblations for each. Here, udumbara firewood sticks are principal; in their absence, those of aśvattha and others as well. All firewood sticks must be offered anointed with honey, ghee, curd, or milk. Sesame should be black alone; barley should be white alone; some say barley may be substituted for sesame. With the four \[verses\] beginning with ‘vāstoṣpate’, \[one offers\] firewood sticks, sesame, milk porridge, and ghee in order, one hundred and eight of each. Then, for Vāstu, with ‘vāstoṣpate dhruvā’, he should offer five or one bilva fruit anointed with ghee for each verse. For the four \[verses\] beginning with ‘vāstoṣpate’, Vasiṣṭha \[is the seer\], Vāstoṣpati \[is the deity\], triṣṭubh \[is the metre, with\] the last \[in\] gāyatrī; the application is in the fire oblation. For ‘vāstoṣpate dhruvā sthūṇām’, the application is in the fire oblation, \[the seer being\] Vāstoṣpati \[and the metre\] bṛhatī. / Then, for Carakī and the others, one should offer the four substances in lesser number than the principal: the learned hold that where the principal \[number\] is eight, elsewhere it is four. All these substances must be offered with the hand alone. Then, having performed \[the rites\] from the sviṣṭakṛt oblation up to the atonement oblations, having given a propitiatory offering of cooked black-gram rice with a lamp to the directional guardians beginning with Indra, having filled the sruc ladle twelve times or four times with ghee and having placed a coconut or other fruit therein, one should offer the full oblation with the verse ‘mūrdhānam’. ‘mūrdhānaṃ divaḥ’—Bharadvāja \[is the seer\], Vaiśvānara \[is the deity\], triṣṭubh \[is the metre\]; the application is in the fire oblation. Then, having completed the remaining rites beginning with taking the praṇītā water, he should give a propitiatory offering to Śikhin and others in the western part of the vāstu diagram: ‘To Śikhin, this is your milk porridge offering, not mine.’ Having had those cooked by Brahmins with milk porridge mixed with ghee, or in the case of a kṣatriya and others with those \[dishes\] to be mentioned, then the ācārya and others, having consecrated the sacrificer along with his wife with the water from the propitiatory pot using Vedic mantras such as ‘samudrajyeṣṭhāḥ’ and Purāṇic mantras such as ‘surāstvām’, having meditated upon the Earth adorned with all herbs in the form of a woman, should worship her with the mantra ‘Oṃ, obeisance to Dharā; the dwelling site is composed of all gods, and supreme, being composed of the dwelling site deity’. ### [10.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.10) Then one should encircle the house, beginning in the east, with a triple cord, using the Pāvamāna hymn and the Rakṣoghna hymn with a triple cord. / If the cord breaks, it is auspicious: / Then, with a jug with a spout filled with milk, and a jug with a spout filled with water, using the same two hymns, one should make two continuous streams. ### [10.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.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’. ### [10.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.12) There, if the whirlpool turns clockwise and the flower faces upwards, it is auspicious. Then, having thrown seven seeds, curd-rice, moss, fruits, and flowers into an earthenware basket, having brought the previously established Vṛṣavāstu to the accompaniment of the auspicious sounding of musical instruments, having placed him therein, and having worshipped him with fragrant substances and other articles, he should pray with two \[verses\]. ### [10.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.13) "You have been worshipped by me, O Vāstu, with auspicious fire oblations and worship. Be pleased, protect \[me\], Lord of All! Give me happiness born of the house!" 13 ### [10.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.14) "O Vāstupuruṣa, obeisance to you, O Lord who delights in sleeping on the ground! Ever produce abundance of wealth, grain, and the like in my house!" 14 ### [10.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.15) Then, having covered the box, he should slowly deposit it into that pit with this \[verse\]: 15 ### [10.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.16) "Just as you bear upon your head the earth with its mountains and oceans, 16 ### [10.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.17) so bear me, O auspicious one, together with my wife, sons, and others!" And when the pit is filled with that very earth, an excess of earth produces the best result, equality produces a middling \[result\], while a deficiency produces the lowest result. Having smeared the ground above the pit with cow dung, he should decorate it with white flowers, perfume, and unbroken rice grains. 17 ### [10.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.18) Then, to the west of the fire, having worshipped the preceptor, having given an adorned \[cow\] with its calf and a pair of garments as a sacrificial fee, having given a sacrificial fee according to his capacity to the Brahman and other officiating priests, having performed worship of the planets and the Vāstu deities beginning with Śikhin, and having completed it, 18 ### [10.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.19) having dismissed \[the deities\] with "Rise, go, O gods!", having handed \[the remainder\] into the hand of the preceptor, having worshipped the fire and dismissed it with "Go, go!", having had the propitiatory rite recited together with the Brahmins, having fed three Brahmins or one each, or according to his ability, for the pleasure of the planets and the deities beginning with Śikhin, and having received their blessings, he should eat together with his friends. Having performed the propitiatory rite for the dwelling in this manner on the first day, he should make the house entrance on the second day. 19 ### [10.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.20) And it is done thus: Taking with folded hands a new sacred pot full of water, accompanied by sprouts, joined with dūrvā grass, smeared with white plaster, wrapped with cloth, with a full saucer \[on top\], and accompanied by fruit, the sacrificer, accompanied by Brahmins and along with his wife and sons, having entered the house to the sound of musical instruments, should set up that sacred pot upon grain in the middle of the main room. Then, for the stability of the house, having had the puṇyāhavācana recited, having fed the Brahmins, having received their blessings, he should eat together with his friends. 20 ### [10.20\_5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.20_5) Thus ends the ritual manual of the propitiatory rite for the dwelling. Some, however, prefer the precedence of Brahmā and the other \[deities\] specifically in the eighty-one-square diagram for the installation, worship, fire oblations, and propitiatory offerings \[of the deities\]. ### [10.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.21) Thus: In the nine squares in the middle, in the heart and navel of Vāstu, \[is\] Brahmā. In the three squares adjoining to the east of that, on the right hand, \[he should install\] Aryaman. In the three southern squares adjoining Brahmā's square, in the belly on the right side, \[he should install\] Vivasvat. In the three western squares adjoining Brahmā's square, in the belly on the left side, \[he should install\] Mitra. In the three northern squares adjoining that very \[Brahmā square\], on the left breast, \[he should install\] Pṛthvīdhara. In the northeast square adjoining Brahmā's square, on the chest, \[he should install\] Āpavatsa. 21 ### [10.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.22) In the southeast square, on the right hand, \[he should install\] Savitṛ. In the southwest square, on the testicles, \[he should install\] Vibudhādhipa. In the northwest square, on the left hand, \[he should install\] Rājayakṣman. In the northeast square adjoining Āpavatsa's square, on the face, \[he should install\] Āpas. 22 ### [10.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.23) In the southeast square adjoining Savitṛ's square, on the right hand, \[he should install\] Sāvitra. 23 ### [10.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24) In the southwest square adjoining Vibudhādhipa's square, on the penis, \[he should install\] Jaya. In the northwest square adjoining Rājayakṣman's square, on the left hand, \[he should install\] Rudra. Having installed \[the deities\] beginning with Śikhin up to Diti from the corner square in the northeast of the diagram as before, and having invoked \[the female spirits\] Carakī and the others as before, he should perform worship, fire oblations, and the like in that very order; the rest is as before. 24 ### [10.24\_6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_6) Thus ends the propitiatory rite for the dwelling declared in the Gṛhyasūtras. Now follows the frog-shaped propitiatory rite for the dwelling (maṇḍūka-vāstuśānti). ### [10.24\_7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_7) For temples, gardens, and the like, however, one should make a sixty-four-square diagram. There, having drawn nine lines with their ends pointing east, standing northward, with these names ending in 'namas': Lakṣmī, Yaśovatī, Kāntā, Supriyā, Vimalā, Śivā, Subhagā, Sumatī, Iḍā; \[and then the lines ending with 'namas':\] Dhanyā, ### [10.24\_8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_8) Prāṇā, Viśālā, Sthirā, Bhadrā, Jayā, Niśā, Virajā, \[and\] Vibhavā—having drawn nine lines with their ends pointing north, standing eastward, with these names ending in 'namas', having united the four middle squares, and having halved the squares by lines drawn from those four corners to the four outer corners, he should install the deities beginning with Śikhin. ### [10.24\_9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_9) There, in the southern half of the northeast square, on the head, \[he should install\] Śikhin; in the one and a half squares south of that, on the right eye, Parjanya; in the two squares south of that, on the right ear, Jayanta; in the two squares south of that, on the right shoulder, Kuliśāyudha \[Indra\]; in the two squares south of that, on the right arm, Sūrya; in the two squares south of that, on the right arm, Satya; in the one and a half squares south of that, on the right elbow, Bhṛśa; in the half southeast square south of that, on the right arm, Ākāśa \[Antarikṣa\]. ### [10.24\_10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_10) In its western half, on the right arm itself, \[he installs\] Vāyu; in the one-and-a-half square to the west of that, on the right wrist, Pūṣan; in the two squares to the west of that, on the right flank, Vitatha; in the two squares to the west of that, on the right flank itself, Grahākṣata; in the two squares to the west of that, on the right thigh, Yama; in the two squares to the west of that, on the right knee, Gandharva; in the one-and-a-half square to the west of that, on the right calf, Bhṛṅgarāja; in the one-and-a-half square to the west of that, in the south-west, on the right buttock, Mṛga; in the half-square to the north of that, on the feet, the Pitṛs; in the half-square to the north of that, on the left buttock, Dauvārika; in the two squares to the north of that, on the left calf, Sugrīva; in the two squares to the north of that, on the left knee, Puṣpadanta; in the two squares to the north of that, on the left thigh, Varuṇa; in the two squares to the north of that, on the left flank, Asura; in the one-and-a-half square to the north of that, on the left flank itself, Śoṣa; in the half-square to the north of that, in the north-west, on the left wrist, Pāpa; in the half-square to the east of that, on the left forearm, Roga; in the half-square to the east of that, on the left forearm itself, Ahi; in the half-square to the east of that, on the left elbow, Mukhya; in the half-square to the east of that, on the left upper arm, Bhallāṭa; in the half-square to the east of that, on the left upper arm itself, Soma; in the half-square to the east of that, on the left shoulder, Sarpa; in the half-square to the east of that, on the left ear, Aditi; in the half-square to the east of that, on the left eye, Diti. Among the central squares: in the northern half of the north-eastern square, on the face, Āpa; in the northern half of the south-eastern square, on the right hand, Sāvitra; in the northern half of the south-western square, on the penis, Jaya; in the northern half of the north-western square, on the left hand, Rudra; in the two squares to the east from the centre, on the right breast, Aryaman; in the southern half of the south-eastern square, on the right hand, Savitṛ; in the two squares to the west of that, on the right side of the belly, Vivasvat; in the eastern half of the south-western square, on the testicles, Vibudhādhipa; in the two squares to the north of that, on the left side of the belly, Mitra; in the western half of the north-western square, on the left hand, Yakṣman; in the two squares to the east of that, on the left breast, Pṛthvīdhara; in the southern half of the north-eastern square, to the north, Āpavatsa; in the four central squares, on the heart and navel, Brahmā. ### [10.24\_11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_11) Then, to the north, \[he installs\] Vāstu in a sacred pot with the \[mantra\] 'vāstoṣpate'. The installation of Carakī and the others is as before. Here and there, instead of 'house' (gṛha), words such as 'temple' (prāsāda) are to be substituted \[where applicable\]. And entering on the next day does not apply here. Everything else is without difference. ### [10.24\_12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_12) Thus ends the ritual manual for the Purāṇic propitiatory rite for a site (vāstuśānti), composed by Rāmakṛṣṇabhaṭṭa, son of the learned scholar Śrī Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭa, whose lotus feet are revered by assemblies of wise men. ### [10.24\_13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_13) Now the propitiatory rite for a site as declared in the Sūtras is stated. And for the twice-born, it is combined with the one previously stated. In case of incapacity to perform the previously stated one, that which is declared in one's own Sūtra alone should be performed, since the purpose is still accomplished. For those who have no \[mention in their\] Sūtra, however, and for Śūdras, only the previously stated one \[applies\], because it is prescribed as common to all. And therefore it is not meant for Śūdras alone; hence that which is stated in the Sūtras is combined with the earlier one. In this regard, the ritual manual for that declared in the Āśvalāyana Sūtra is as follows: When the house, built of wood and other materials, is completed and filled with grains such as rice, \[the sacrificer,\] having entered at an auspicious muhūrta accompanied by Brāhmaṇas and preceded by the sound of musical instruments, having placed four stones in a pure spot and placed dūrvā grass on them, should place an earthen vessel called a maṇika with this \[verse\]: 'pṛthivyā adhi saṃbhava…' or 'araṅgaro vāvādīti tredhā baddho vāratrayaḥ / irām uha praśaṃsaty anirāmayabādham iti vā'. Then he should pour water into the maṇika with this \[verse\]: 'yo naḥ rājā varuṇo revatībhir asmin sthāne tiṣṭhatu modamānaḥ / irāṃ vahanto ghṛtam ukṣamāṇau mitreṇa sākaṃ sahasā viśantv iti'. Then, taking that water into another vessel and tossing into it perfume, dūrvā grass, a twig of śamī, a twig of udumbara, rice grains, tender shoots, fruit, and gold, he should sprinkle the entire house thrice with the dūrvā grass and the twigs, walking clockwise beginning from the east, with this hymn: of the fifteen verses beginning with 'śan na indrāgnī', the ṛṣi is Vasiṣṭha, the deity is the Viśvedevas, the metre is triṣṭubh, used in sprinkling. The recitation of the hymn is once. Then, beginning from the east, he should pour an unbroken stream of water thrice with this triplet: of the triplet beginning with 'āpo hi ṣṭhā', the ṛṣi is Ambharīṣa Sindhudvīpa, the deity is the Waters, the metre is gāyatrī, used in pouring the stream; here too it is recited thrice. Then, having established the domestic fire in the centre, having declared the principal deity as 'Vāstoṣpati, four times', having laid the fuel around (anvādhāna) down to the placing of the full vessel, having prepared caru offering for Vāstoṣpati, silently measured out the grain, sprinkled it in the same way, brought the rites down to the portions, and taken the prescribed cuttings in accordance with the rule of portions, he should offer fire oblations with the four mantras beginning with 'vāstoṣpate', each ending with svāhā: of the four \[verses\] beginning with 'vāstoṣpate', the deity is Vāstoṣpati, the first three are triṣṭubh, the last is gāyatrī, used in the fire oblation. The formula of renunciation everywhere is: 'This is for Vāstoṣpati, not for me'. Then, having concluded the remainder of the fire oblations, such as the sviṣṭakṛt, he should feed a hundred Brāhmaṇas, or half of that, or—by the general interpretive rule of plural number—if incapable, three Brāhmaṇas, with the remaining caru offering and other food. No other cooking should be done before the caru offering. Then he should say to the Brāhmaṇas: 'May you say: auspicious site, auspicious site!' Addressed by them with 'Auspicious site, auspicious site!', he should eat accompanied by friends. This is also recommended upon the renovation of a dilapidated house, like the ordinary propitiatory rite. / Thus ends the ritual manual for the propitiatory rite for a site according to the Āśvalāyana Gṛhyasūtra, composed by Śrī Rāmakṛṣṇa. ### [10.24\_14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_14) However, the propitiatory rite for a site and the installation for a temple, royal consecration, and the like are to be learned from the earlier Kamalākara composed by me. ### [10.24\_15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_15) In the Baudhāyana-sūtra: "Now then, one desiring the prosperity of his house should undertake the propitiatory rite for the house month by month, without returning, or once a year, in the waxing fortnight under an auspicious lunar mansion. He sweeps the house with apāmārga, palāśa, śamī, śirīṣa, udumbara, sadābhadra, and mustā grasses, and with indravallī. Having sprinkled it with the five bovine products with a handful of darbha grass, with the two \[mantras\] 'mā no mahāntam' and 'mā nas toke', having scattered white mustard seeds with the two \[mantras\] 'yata indra bhayāmahe' and 'svastidā viśaspatiḥ' and with the hymn 'kṛṇuṣva pājaḥ', and having set up the face of the fire in the center of the house-site, he offers from the pot-cooked offering with the two mantras 'vāstoṣpate, vāstoṣpate'. Then he offers two ghee oblations with 'vāstoṣpate dhruvā sthūṇām' and 'vāstoṣpate'; with these six, holding his breath, he should offer a thousand oblations with the Sāvitrī. After completing \[the rite\] up to the sviṣṭakṛt oblation, giving a cow as the prize-gift, gratifying the brāhmaṇas with food, he should make them recite 'auspicious day, well-being, prosperity'. Performing it thus, they foster great nourishment, there are many sons, children do not die, neither planets nor diseases seize them, tusked beasts do not harm them, and neither thieves, serpents, rākṣasas, nor piśācas torment them. If cattle are afflicted, he should offer a thousand oblations amidst the cattle; they call this the propitiatory rite for cattle. They teach this very rite for two-footed and four-footed creatures; a garment is the priestly fee—so says the venerable Baudhāyana." Thus ends the propitiatory rite for the house and the like as stated by Baudhāyana. Now, the propitiatory rite for inauspicious first menstruation. ### [10.24\_16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_16) He states its results: On the new moon, an empty day, the eighth, the sixth, the twelfth, and even the pratipad; in the first half of Parigha, and during Vyatīpāta and Vaidhṛti; 1 ### [10.24\_17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_17) during the twilights, in an eclipse, and on Viṣṭi, it is inauspicious at the first menses. 'Upaplava' means an eclipse. Diseased, devoted to her husband, sorrowful, having sons, enjoying pleasures, devoted to her husband, suffering distress—in order from Sunday onwards. 2 ### [10.24\_18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_18) Widowhood, acquisition of a son, friendship, destruction of enemies, acquisition of friends, loss of enemies, perversity of mind, destruction of relatives, 3 ### [10.24\_19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_19) death, growth of lineage, foodlessness, destruction of family, splendor, loss of sons, and ruin of family—such is the result according to the lunar day. 4 ### [10.24\_20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_20) Garga: Fortunate, ill-behaved, barren, endowed with sons, virtuous, a breaker of vows, and rejoicing in the offspring of others; 5 ### [10.24\_21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_21) having good sons, having bad sons, ever devoted to her father's country, miserable, having many offspring, rich in sons, doing surprising deeds; 6 ### [10.24\_22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_22) virtuous, always dear to her husband, having good sons, enduring hardship, devoted to her own duties, violent, endowed with pious sons and the like; 7 ### [10.24\_23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_23) always attached to accumulating wealth, endowed with sons and grain, foolish, contemptuous, and virtuous—such is the result in order of the lunar mansions from Aśvinī onwards. 8 ### [10.24\_24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_24) Nārada: Cancer, Taurus, Sagittarius, Pisces, Gemini, Virgo, Libra, and Aquarius— these zodiac signs are known to grant good fortune at the first menses of women. 9 ### [10.24\_25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_25) Garga: She will be fortunate in white garments, devoted to her husband in sturdy garments, a queen in silken garments, and endowed with happiness in new garments; 10 ### [10.24\_26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_26) she will be unfortunate in worn garments, and diseased in red cloth. 11 ### [10.24\_27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_27) A woman who menstruates wearing dark blue garments becomes a widow thereafter; if there are an odd number of blood-drops on the garment, she will obtain a son; 12 ### [10.24\_28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_28) if an even number, a daughter—such would be the result at the first menses. Vasiṣṭha states the avoidance of union with a woman: If that menses is seen when there is a serious defect, then a propitiatory rite must be performed; he should forsake a common bed until the cessation of the menses on the prescribed day. 13 ### [10.24\_29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_29) Vasiṣṭha in the Jyotirnibandha: At the first menses, Pauṣa, Śukra, Kārttika, Caitra, and Śrāvaṇa are auspicious; inauspicious days are malefic weekdays, the empty lunar days, the parvan days, the eighth, the sixth, another's house, a bad place, night, twilight, and the afternoon; 14 ### [10.24\_30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_30) mixed, fierce, and sharp lunar mansions, Mūla, an inauspicious time, deficient or excessive limbs, bleeding, \[…\] the ascendant of a malefic planet, and red, old, blue, or multicolored clothing are not auspicious. 15 ### [10.24\_31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_31) A woman who menstruates for the first time during Viṣkambha will be unfortunate, barren during Atigaṇḍa, and afflicted with colic during Śūla; a woman during Gaṇḍa becomes unchaste, and during Vyāghāta she kills herself; 16 ### [10.24\_32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_32) during Vajra she is declared wanton, and during Pāta she destroys her husband; during Parigha she is barren through dead offspring, and during Vaidhṛti she kills her husband; 17 ### [10.24\_33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_33) the remaining yogas bring good fortune. Śaunaka in the Pārijāta: "I, Śaunaka, shall declare the propitiatory rite for menstruating women. On the fifth day or on the fourth day, preceded by hospitality to the planets, 19 ### [10.24\_34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_34) from three droṇa measures of grain, three heaps of unhusked rice \[are made\]. One should place three pitchers on the heaps, wrapped with cords, cloth, and the like, and fill each pitcher separately with water from sacred fords 20 ### [10.24\_35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_35) with the nine-verse hymn 'prasuva āpaḥ', then with the verse 'yāḥ pravataḥ', likewise with the Gāyatrī, in that order. 21 ### [10.24\_36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_36) In the central pitcher, one should cast grain, medicinal herbs, and gold; udumbara, kuśa grass, dūrvā grass, lotus, banyan, bilva, 22 ### [10.24\_37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_37) viṣṇukrāntā, tulasī, darbha grass, śaṅkhapuṣpī, śatāvarī, aśvagandhā, nirguṇḍī, the two varieties of mustard, apāmārga, palāśa, panasa, and jīvaka, 23 ### [10.24\_38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.24_38) priyaṅgu, wheat, rice, and aśvattha; milk, curds, ghee, lotus leaf, and blue water-lily, 24 ### [10.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.25) the three types of kuraṇṭaka, guñjā, vacā, and bhadramustā. One should gather these thirty-two medicinal herbs as far as possible. 25 ### [10.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.26) One should cast the earths and these herbs in proper measure in succession. Above the pitcher, one should place a bowl made of bronze, clay, bamboo, or copper. 26 ### [10.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.27) There one should place Bhuvaneśvarī, and Indrāṇī and Purandara. The teacher, or another, should worship \[Bhuvaneśvarī\] with the Gāyatrī, the essence of mantras; 27 ### [10.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.28) he should worship the goddess Indrāṇī with 'indrāṇīm āsu nāriṣu'; 28 ### [10.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.29) he should worship Indra with 'indratvā vṛṣabham' with the services of worship. Then, touching the central pitcher, he should worship Bhuvaneśvarī with the mantra. 29 ### [10.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.30) He should recite the Gāyatrī until the fire oblation; then he should recite the Śrīsūkta. Touching the southern pitcher, the priest should likewise recite 30 ### [10.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.31) the four Rudrasūktas and the four following mantras; touching the northern pitcher, he should recite the Śrīrudra eleven times." 31 ### [10.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.32) And touching there, he should mutter the hymn 'śaṃ na indrāgnī'. / In the western direction of the pitcher, he should perform the propitiatory fire oblation. ### [10.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.33) With dūrvā grass, sesamum seeds, wheat grains, milk porridge, and ghee. / And with three stalks of dūrvā grass, each single oblation should be made. ### [10.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.34) Either one thousand and eight times, or one hundred and eight times, / this fourfold oblation should be offered with the Gāyatrī. ### [10.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.35) Then, having offered the sviṣṭakṛt oblation with the hymn 'samudrād ūrmiḥ', / he should perform the full oblation with a continuous stream of ghee. ### [10.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.36) Then he should perform the consecratory sprinkling with the water situated in each pitcher, / with the nine verses beginning with 'āpo hi ṣṭhā', and after that with the hymn ### [10.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.37) beginning with 'indro aṅga', with the triplet of verses; and with the Pāvamāna verses in sequence; / with 'ubhayaṃ śṛṇavat', 'śaṃ naḥ', and with the single verse 'svastidā viśaḥ'; ### [10.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.38) with the mantra to Tryambaka; with the single verse 'jātavedase'; / with the three verses beginning with 'samudrajyeṣṭhāḥ' and with the 'trāyantī' \[verses\] in sequence; ### [10.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.39) with the triplet 'imā āpaḥ'; with the mantra 'devasya tvā'; / then with the mantra 'īśānam'; with 'tvam agne rudra', and then ### [10.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.40) with the mantra 'tam u ṣṭuhi'; likewise with 'bhuvanasya pitā'; / with the mantra 'yā te rudra'; with the mantra 'śivena kalpena'; ### [10.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.41) and with the five mantras beginning with 'indratvā vṛṣabhaṃ', he should sprinkle \[her\]. / He should give a milch cow to the preceptor along with ornaments. ### [10.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42) He should give a draught bullock as a sacrificial gift to the one who muttered the Rudra hymn. / Then, having performed the great propitiatory rite, he should feed brāhmaṇas. ### [10.42\_39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_39) Now the ritual manual composed by our father: / The performer makes the ritual resolution: 'For the appeasement of all evil portents indicated by bad months and the like at my wife's first appearance of menses, I shall perform the propitiatory rite for the appearance of menses along with the sacrifice to the planets.' Having performed the worship of Gaṇeśa, the puṇyāhavācana, the worship of the mother goddesses, and the Nāndīśrāddha, he should select the preceptor and the officiating priests. The preceptor touches the ground in the north-east, in the center, and to the south and north with the mantra 'mahī dyauḥ'; on three heaps of unhusked rice measuring a droṇa, having established the three pitchers with repetitions of the mantra 'ā kalaśeṣu'; for the nine verses 'pra su va āpaḥ', the ṛṣi is Pratīmedhā, the deities are the rivers, the metre is Jagatī; for 'yāḥ pravaḥ', the ṛṣi is Vasiṣṭha, the deities are the rivers, the metre is Śakvarī; having filled them with water with these two \[hymns\], he places scent with 'gandhadvārām', all medicinal herbs with 'yā oṣadhīḥ', and barley grains in the three with 'oṣadhayaḥ saṃ'—or he may place the thirty-two medicinal herbs as available: udumbara, kuśa, dūrvā grass, red lotus, campaka, bilva, viṣṇukrāntā, tulasī, barhiṣ, śaṅkhapuṣpī, śatāvarī, aśvagandhā, nirguṇḍī, red and yellow sahasrā, apāmārga, palāśa, jackfruit, bandhūka, priyaṅgu, wheat, unhusked rice, aśvattha, curd, milk, ghee, lotus petal, blue lotus, white, red and yellow kuraṇṭaka, guñjā, vacā, and bhadramustā. Then in the three sacred pots: dūrvā grass with 'kāṇḍāt kāṇḍāt', five sprouts with 'aśvatthed vaḥ', the seven earths with 'syonā', a fruit with 'yāḥ phalinīḥ', the five jewels with 'sa hi ratnāni', and having wrapped them with cloth with 'hiraṇyarūpaḥ', placing full dishes filled with barley and the like together with cloths with 'pūrṇā darvi'; having drawn eight petals there, having invoked Bhuvaneśvarī in the center with the Gāyatrī; having invoked Indrāṇī in the southern pitcher with 'vṛṣākapiḥ', 'indrāṇī', the metre is Paṅkti; having invoked Indra in the northern pitcher with 'indratvā', the ṛṣi is Viśvāmitra, the deity is Indra, the metre is Gāyatrī; he should worship them with their respective mantras with the sixteen offerings. Then, having touched the central pitcher, he mutters the Gāyatrī eight thousand \[times\] or one thousand eight \[times\]—the ṛṣis are the sons of Indirā, the deity is Śrī, the first three are Triṣṭubhs, one is Prastārapaṅkti, two are Triṣṭubhs, the final is Prastārapaṅkti; the application is in muttering. ### [10.42\_40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_40) Then one officiating priest at the southern pitcher: / For the nine verses 'kad rudrāya', the ṛṣi is Aghora Kāṇva, the deity is Rudra, the metre is Gāyatrī. / For the eleven verses 'imā rudrāya', the ṛṣi is Kutsa, the deity is Rudra, the metre is Jagatī, the last two are Triṣṭubhs. / For the fifteen verses 'ā te pitā', the ṛṣi is Gṛtsamada, the deity is Rudra, the metre is Triṣṭubh. / For the four verses 'imā rudrāya sthiradhanvine', the deity is Rudra, the metre is Triṣṭubh. / For 'tryambakam', the ṛṣi is Vasiṣṭha, the deity is Rudra; for the ten verses, the ṛṣi is Vasiṣṭha, the deities are the Viśvedevas, the metre is Triṣṭubh. ### [10.42\_41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_41) Thus he should mutter. / Then, having established the fire in the north-east, having invoked the planetary deities, the presiding deities Rudra, Umā, Skanda, Viṣṇu, Brahmā, Indra, Yama, Kāla, and Citragupta, the counter-presiding deities Agni, the Waters, Earth, Viṣṇu, Indra, Indrāṇī, Prajāpati, Sarvabrahman, and the five world-protectors beginning with Vināyaka, having fully worshipped them, and having worshipped Varuṇa in the pitcher in the north-east, he should add fuel to the fire. In the fire Cakṣuṣmat, having made oblations to the nine planets with the designated number of firewood sticks, cooked oblations, and ghee oblations; having offered with firewood sticks, sesamum, and ghee to the presiding deities and the rest with one oblation each; having offered to Bhuvaneśvarī with dūrvā grass, sesamum mixed with wheat, milk porridge, and ghee with either one hundred and eight or twenty-eight oblations each; and to Indrāṇī and Indra with the stated substances with either twenty-eight or eight oblations each; with the remainder for the sviṣṭakṛt, and so forth, having mentally assigned \[it\] silently as 'to the stated deities, to so-and-so', having prepared the sacrificial pot-cooked grain in milk, at the end of the ghee portions, when the renunciation is made by the sacrificer, the fire oblation is performed according to the stated number. There, one oblation is made with three stalks of dūrvā grass smeared with curd, honey, and ghee. ### [10.42\_42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_42) In this manner the firewood sticks are anointed. Then: After the fire oblation of the atonement starting with sviṣṭakṛt, having offered propitiatory offerings of black gram and cooked rice with lamps to the guardians of the directions, the nine planets, and to Bhuvaneśvarī, Indrāṇī, and Indra; having offered the final oblation with the triplet "samudrādūrmiḥ" (seer: Vāmadeva, deity: Agni, metre: triṣṭubh); and having concluded the remainder of the rite, beginning with the release of the praṇītā waters, one should sprinkle the bride and groom, or the bride alone, \[reciting\]: with the nine \[verses beginning\] "āpo hi ṣṭha"; "ya eka id vidāyate" (Gautama, Indra, triṣṭubh); with the seven \[verses beginning\] "tribhis tvam deva" (Vasiṣṭha; for three Agni, then the Viśvedevas; the first is gāyatrī, then anuṣṭubh, three gāyatrīs, the last two anuṣṭubhs); with the four verses beginning "samudrajyeṣṭhāḥ" (Vasiṣṭha, Āpaḥ, triṣṭubh); with the three verses of the Āpastamba branch beginning "devasya tvā"; "tam īśānaṃ" (Gautama, Īśāna, jagatī); "tvam agne rudraḥ" \[and\] "tam u ṣṭuhi" (Aṅgiras, Tiraścī, Rudra, triṣṭubh); with the six verses beginning "yad jāgrataḥ" (Prajāpati, Manas, triṣṭubh); \[and\] with the five verses beginning "indra tvā vṛṣabham" (Viśvāmitra, Indra, gāyatrī). Then, having sprinkled \[them\] with the \[verses\] beginning with "surās tvām", having worshipped the fire, having given a cow to the ācārya, an ox with a priestly gift to the one who recited the Rudra \[hymns\], and priestly gifts to the others, having performed the concluding worship of the deities, having dismissed them, having placed \[the fees\] in the ācārya's hand, having worshipped the fire and dismissed it saying "Depart, depart", having recited the great propitiatory rite, and having fed the Brahmins, he should eat himself. Thus ends the propitiatory rite for the appearance of menses in the Śāntiratna composed by Kamalākarabhaṭṭa. ### [10.42\_43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_43) In the Madanaratna, however, it is stated otherwise from the Ṛṣiputrasaṃhitā: "One should subsequently perform the propitiatory rite for the faults of the first menses. One should make a separate altar for the worship of the deities of the lunar day, lunar mansion, weekday, and the like, with four āḍhakas of rice grains: 'An āḍhaka of hulled rice grains, and two āḍhakas of sesame and barley; An āḍhaka, a kuḍava, a prastha, an āḍhaka, and a droṇa— these measures of grain should be understood in sequence as quadrupled.' Thus it is said. Layer upon layer it should be spread, and in the middle of it one should draw a lotus. Having covered it with darbha grass, one should place a jar in the center upon the pericarp. Puṇyā, devī, ekapatrā, viṣṇukrāntā, sadadrikā, and bilva leaves; having ground them together, one should place them into the jar. Kuṣṭha, māṃsī, the two kinds of turmeric, murā, śaileya, sandalwood, vacā, kaccūra, and mustā are remembered as the ten medicinal herbs. Having brought earth from \[places trodden by\] elephants and horses, from an intersection, an anthill, a confluence, a lake, a cattle-pen, and the area of the king's gate, one should throw it in. One should also throw in five bovine products, a white water-lily, pearls, diamond, cat's-eye, ruby, and coral. Having thus prepared the pitcher, he should worship it with auspicious fragrances and the like. And a twice-born should touch the pitcher and recite the Sāvitrī one hundred and eight times. Then, at the time of twilight, one should bathe the two of them with these \[waters\]. One should diligently perform the fire oblation according to the rule stated in one's own Gṛhyasūtra, having offered oblations with dūrvā grass, ghee, and sesame, with the Gāyatrī mantra, either one thousand and eight times, or one hundred and eight times. Having offered threefold into the fire according to that number, with dūrvā grass, ghee, and sesame equally, and having fed the Brahmins, one should then worship the deity. In this manner has been declared concisely the \[rite for\] the first menses of women." ### [10.42\_44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_44) On this very matter, Nārada says: "There one should perform the propitiatory rite with ghee, dūrvā grass, sesame, and unbroken rice grains; and then one should offer an oblation of each one hundred and eight times with the Gāyatrī. He should give gold, land, cows, and sesame for the non-arising of all faults." This is respected by the cultivated, by the Prayogapārijāta, and also by Śaunaka. Thus ends the propitiatory rite for the appearance of menses in \[the work\] composed by Kamalākarabhaṭṭa. ### [10.42\_45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_45) Now, the Serpent Propitiation \[nāgabali\]. ### [10.42\_46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_46) Śaunaka says: "Now I shall declare the supreme rule for the funerary rite of a serpent. One should have it performed on the new moon day, the full moon day, or on the fifth lunar day. // 1 ### [10.42\_47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_47) If a Brahmin committed the killing of a serpent, or if it occurred in a previous life, and if the sinner should confess the killing, he should perform fourteen kṛcchra penances, and he should cause to be given an iron rod to a Brahmin, or its value. // 2 ### [10.42\_48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_48) Yājñavalkya also says: 'For the killing of a serpent, an iron \[rod\] is to be given.' He states the value: 'Three niṣkas, two niṣkas, or one niṣka for the lowest.' // 3 ### [10.42\_49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_49) 'For those who instigate or consent to it, a niṣka, a half, or half of that.' // 4 ### [10.42\_50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_50) This is to be understood as an amount in gold or silver. Then: 'Or again, with flour of priyaṅgu, rice, wheat, or sesame, // 5 ### [10.42\_51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_51) having fashioned the form of a serpent and placed it on a winnowing basket, one should pray to the serpent: "Come, O serpent who died formerly; enter into this flour \[image\]! For the purpose of the funerary rite, I pray with devotion, in brief." // 6 ### [10.42\_52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_52) Having worshipped it with garments, the sacred thread, fragrances, and the like, he should carry it outside. One should make the ritual resolution for the funerary rite preceded by breath control. The serpent funerary rite must be performed with the sacred thread worn over the left shoulder \[yajñopavītin\]. // 7 ### [10.42\_53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_53) Having established the secular fire, having sprinkled the firewood sticks with waters, // 9 ### [10.42\_54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_54) having built a pyre, having strewn kuśa grass with tips pointing southwards, having sprinkled around the fire, strewn \[grass\] around it, and watered around it, he should worship it. // 10 ### [10.42\_55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_55) Having laid the firewood, and performed the two butter-portions and the two eye-oblations according to rule, // 11 ### [10.42\_56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_56) the wise man should take the serpent with care and place it on the pyre. He should offer ghee into the fire with the dipping spoon, reciting the three vyāhṛtis. // 12 ### [10.42\_57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_57) He should pour ghee into the mouth of the serpent with the complete vyāhṛti, and with the dipping spoon itself he should pour the remainder of the ghee over the entire body. // 13 ### [10.42\_58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_58) Having sprinkled the serpent by hand with the waters in the camasa cup using the vyāhṛtis, he should apply fire to the serpent with \[the verse\] 'agne rakṣā ṇaḥ...': "Whether consciously or unconsciously, the killing of a serpent was done by me // 14 ### [10.42\_59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_59) or in a previous life, O serpent; you ought to forgive all that!" Then, having sprinkled the fire with milk and ghee, and with waters reciting the vyāhṛtis, // 15 ### [10.42\_60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_60) no collection of bones or the like is to be performed; impurity for three nights is prescribed. // 16 ### [10.42\_61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_61) Celibacy and the like are to be observed; impurity for three nights is prescribed. Having bathed with clothes on the fourth day, he should worship the Brahmins. // 17 ### [10.42\_62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_62) With the names: Sarpa, Ananta, Śeṣa, Kapila, Nāga, Kālika, Śaṅkhapāla, and Bhūdhara, he should worship the twice-born with fragrances, flowers, unbroken rice grains, incenses, lamps, and the like. And he should feed the eight twice-born with ghee, milk porridge, and foods." // 18 ### [10.42\_63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_63) When this serpent funeral rite is thus performed according to the prescribed rules, / one is released from the sin incurred by killing a serpent; there is no doubt about this. // 19 ### [10.42\_64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_64) Thus ends the propitiatory offering to serpents (nāgabali). ### [10.42\_65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_65) On this matter, Mārkaṇḍeya says: / 'When there is an astrological conjunction portending widowhood, after performing a propitiatory rite with an image in a pitcher and the like, / the maiden should then be married—so say other authorities.' // 1 ### [10.42\_66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_66) Regarding that, the absence of remarried-woman status (punarbhūtva) is stated in the Vidhānakhaṇḍa: / 'An image made of gold, water, or pippala wood, having the form of Viṣṇu: // 2 ### [10.42\_67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_67) When married to it, the status of a remarried woman does not occur.' // 3 ### [10.42\_68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.10.42_68) In the dialogue between Sūrya and Aruṇa: / 'Prior to the marriage, at a time endowed with the strength of the moon and stars, // 4 _First 110 of 326 passages. 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