Shantikamalakara 3.1.2

3.1.2

“Oṃ bhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥ, O Rāhu, born in the country of Siṃhala, of the Paiṭhīnasi gotra, come here!” [For the verse:] ketuṃ kṛṇvan: the seer is Madhucchandas, the deity Ketu, the meter gāyatrī: “Oṃ bhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥ, O Ketu, born in the Antarvedī, of the Jaimini gotra, come here!” Now the presiding deities: [For the verse:] tryambakam: the seer is Vasiṣṭha, the deity Rudra, the meter anuṣṭubh. [For the verse:] gaurīr mimāya: the seer is Dīrghatamas, the deity Umā, the meter jagatī. [For the verse:] yad akrandaḥ: the seer is Dīrghatamas, the deity Skanda, the meter triṣṭubh. [For the verse:] viṣṇor nu kam: the seer is Dīrghatamas, the deity Nārāyaṇa, the meter triṣṭubh. [For the verse:] brahma jajñānam: the seer is Vāsudeva, the deity Brahman, the meter triṣṭubh. [For the verse:] indraṃ vaḥ: the seer is Madhucchandas, the deity Indra, the meter gāyatrī. [For the verse:] yamāya somam: the seer is Yama, the deity Yama, the meter anuṣṭubh. [For the verse:] mā ṣū ṇaḥ: the seer is Ghora Kāṇva, the deity Kāla, the meter gāyatrī. [For the verse:] uto rājan: the seer is Praskaṇva, the deity Citragupta, the meter bṛhatī. The secondary presiding deities: [For the verse:] agnim: the seer is Medhātithi Kāṇva, the deity Agni, the meter gāyatrī. [For the verse:] apsu me: the seer is Medhātithi, the deity Apas, the meter anuṣṭubh. [For the verse:] syonā pṛthivi: the seer is Medhātithi, the deity Bhūmi, the meter gāyatrī. [For the verse:] idaṃ viṣṇuḥ: the seer is Medhātithi, the deity Viṣṇu, the meter gāyatrī. [For the verse:] indraśreṣṭhāni: the seer is Gṛtsamada, the deity Indra, the meter triṣṭubh. [For the verse:] indrāṇīm: the seer is Vṛṣākapi, the deity Indrāṇī, the meter paṅkti. [For the verse:] prajāpate: the seer is Hiraṇyagarbha, the deity Prajāpati, the meter triṣṭubh. [For the verse:] āyaṃ gauḥ: the seer is Sārparājñī, the deity Sarpa, the meter gāyatrī. [For the verse:] brahma jajñānam: the seer is Gautama Vāmadeva, the deity Brahman, the meter triṣṭubh. Then to the north: [For the verse:] gaṇānāṃ tvā: the seer is Gṛtsamada, the deity Gaṇapati, the meter jagatī. [For the verse:] jātavedase: the seer is Kaśyapa, the deity Durgā, the meter triṣṭubh. [For the verse:] tava vāyavṛtaspate: the seer is Āṅgirasa, the deity Vāyu, the meter gāyatrī. [For the verse:] ādityāt sūryāt: the deity Ākāśa, the meter gāyatrī. [For the verse:] eṣo uṣāḥ: the seer is Praskaṇva, the deity the Aśvins, the meter gāyatrī. Or, Vināyaka to the north of Rāhu, Vāyu to the north of Śani, Ākāśa to the south of Rāhu, the Aśvins to the south of Ketu. To the north: [For the verse:] kṣetrasya patinā: the seer is Vāmadeva, the deity Kṣetrapati, the meter anuṣṭubh. [For the verse:] vāstoṣpate: the seer is Vasiṣṭha, the deity Vāstoṣpati, the meter triṣṭubh. Then, in the hundred-thousand and ten-million homas: “You whose body is the sound of the Sāman, the vehicle of Parameṣṭhin, / ever the remover of poison and sin: therefore, grant me peace!”