Shantikamalakara 2.9

2.9

Or both are two digits wide. Then, wearing white garments, with white garlands and ointments, the sacrificer, accompanied by the ācārya and the officiating priests, amidst auspicious sounds, with a sacred pot filled with water in hand, circumambulating the pavilion clockwise with the mantras 'om bhadraṃ karṇebhiḥ...' and 'janitvam...', and entering by the western door, scattering white mustard seeds with [the verses]: 'Whatever spirit has stayed here, resorting always to this place, having abandoned that place, let all of that go wherever it abides. / Let spirits and piśācas depart in all directions; without hindrance to anyone, I begin the sacred rite', sprinkling the ground with the ṛc 'śucī vo halyā...' and with the ṛc 'āpo hi ṣṭhā...', he should recite the two mantras 'svastyayanaṃ tārkṣyam...'. Then, having constructed the vāstu-altar in the southwestern part of the pavilion, having driven in four pegs at the four corners beginning with the northeast of the sacrificial altar with the mantra: 'May the Nāgas and the world guardians enter all around onto the surface of the earth; may they remain in this pavilion, always producing long life and strength', he should then make offerings of pulse and cooked rice beside the pegs beginning with the southeast: 'Unto all the fires and whatever others are stationed there, to them I offer this bali, meritorious, excellent cooked rice.' Thus, having given offerings of pulse and cooked rice beside the southwest, northwest, and northeast pegs with the triad of mantras—and those mantras are: 'The lord of the southwest and whatever rākṣasas are in the southwest, to them I offer the bali; let all accept this bali. / Homage to the rakṣases stationed in the wind, and whatever others have resorted to it; to them I offer the bali; let all accept this bali. / And unto all the Rudras and whatever others have resorted to them, to them I offer the bali; let them, always eager, accept it.' Then, upon a cloth over the sacrificial altar, with a needle of gold or the like: