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That is as follows. Having made the ritual resolution: “I shall perform the installation of the deities, namely Āditya and the others, in the maṇḍala,” \[he meditates:\] “Seated upon a lotus, holding a lotus, of lotus-like interior…” \[For the verse:\] ākṛṣṇena: the seer is Hiraṇyastūpa, the deity Savitṛ, the meter triṣṭubh; application is to the invocation of Sūrya. “Oṃ bhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥ, O Sūrya, born in the country of Kaliṅga, of the Kāśyapa gotra, come here!” \[For the verse:\] āpyāyasva: the seer is Gautama, the deity Soma, the meter gāyatrī: “Oṃ bhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥ, O Soma, born on the banks of the Yamunā, of the Ātreya gotra, come here!” \[For the verse:\] agnirmūrdhā: the seer is Virūpa, the deity Aṅgāraka, the meter gāyatrī: “Oṃ bhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥ, O Bhauma, born in Avantī, of the Bhāradvāja gotra, come here!” \[For the verse:\] udbudhyasva: the seer is Budha Saumya, the deity Budha, the meter triṣṭubh: “Oṃ bhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥ, O Budha, born in the country of Magadha, of the Ātreya gotra, come here!” \[For the verse:\] bṛhaspate: the seer is Gṛtsamada, the deity Bṛhaspati, the meter triṣṭubh: “Oṃ bhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥ, O Bṛhaspati, born in the country of Sindhu, of the Āṅgirasa gotra, come here!” \[For the verse:\] śukram: the seer is Parāśara, the meter dvipadā virāṭ: “Oṃ bhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥ, O Śukra, born in Bhojakaṭaka, of the Bhārgava gotra, come here!” \[For the verse:\] śamagnir: the seer is Ibiṭa, the deity Śani, the meter uṣṇih: “Oṃ bhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥ, O Śanaiścara, born in the country of Saurāṣṭra, of the Kāśyapa gotra, come here!” \[For the verse:\] kayā naḥ: the seer is Vāmadeva, the deity Rāhu, the meter gāyatrī: ### [3.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.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!” ### [3.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.1.3) With this mantra, or with \[the verse beginning\] indraṃ mitraṃ varuṇam, having invoked Garutmat to the north, and having invoked the guardians of the directions in the eight directions with their respective mantras, then one should install: Śeṣa to the east of Ravi; Vāsuki in front of Soma; Takṣaka in front of Bhauma; Karkoṭaka to the north of Budha; Padma to the north of Guru; Mahāpadma to the north of Śukra; Śaṅkhapāla to the west of Śani; Kambala in front of Rāhu; and Kuliśa in front of Ketu. Then, in the east: the seven lunar mansions beginning with Aśvinī, the seven yogas beginning with Viṣkambha, the karaṇas Bava and Bālava, the seven continents, and the Ṛgveda. In the south: the seven lunar mansions beginning with Puṣya, the seven yogas beginning with Dhṛti, the karaṇas Kaulava and Taitila, the seven oceans, and the Yajurveda. \[In the west:\] the karaṇas Gara and Vaṇij, the seven netherworlds, and the Sāmaveda. In the north: the seven lunar mansions beginning with Abhijit, the six yogas beginning with Sādhya, the Viṣṭi karaṇa, the seven worlds beginning with Bhūḥ, and the Atharvaveda. In the northwest: Dhruva and the Seven Seers. Then, according to available space: the seven rivers beginning with the Gaṅgā, the seven principal mountain ranges, the eight Vasus, the twelve Ādityas, the eleven Rudras, the forty-nine Maruts, the sixteen Mothers, the six seasons, the twelve months, the two solstices, the fifteen lunar days, the sixty years, the birds, the snakes, the yakṣas, the gandharvas, the vidyādharas, the apsarases, the rākṣasas, the spirits, and human beings. But in the ten-million homa: Brahman in the east of the sacrificial altar, Janārdana in the center, Rudra in the west, and Skanda in the north; then one should meditate \[upon them\]. Then having invoked \[them with the verses\] mitrā\[varuṇā\] and gṛhā vai, and having worshipped them with sixteen services according to the Puruṣasūkta, one should pray: “The Ādityas, the Vasus, the Rudras, the Maruts, and likewise the guardians of the world, / Brahman, Janārdana, Śūlapāṇi, and the destroyer of the eyes of Bhaga— / may all be present here and partake in the sacrifice! / May they everywhere accept the worship offered by me with devotion, / and, composed, may they all bring welfare to the sacrificer!” ### [3.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.1.4) Then, having worshipped the pitcher in the north-eastern \[corner\] of the sacrificial altar, and having prayed with the verse beginning with 'devadānava-saṃvāde', he should perform the anvādhāna. Having declared up to 'the two eyes \[of the fire\] with ghee', \[he resolves\]: 'with firewood sticks, caru, and ghee offerings numbering any of one hundred and eight, twenty-eight, or eight for the nine planets; with offerings of any of barley, rice, ghee, or sesame numbering any of ten thousand, one hundred thousand, or ten million for the nine planets; \[and\] with the remainder for the sviṣṭakṛt...' In the view that there is only a single caru and ghee offering for all \[deities\], there is marking out \[of lines on the ground\] and the like accordingly. In the cases of a hundred-thousand fire oblation and a ten-million fire oblation, \[he makes offerings\] to Garutmat with firewood sticks and so forth numbering one hundred and eight and so on; in the ten-million fire oblation, \[offerings are made\] to Brahmā and the others just like to Garuḍa. In the view of a single caru offering, the rule of five portions applies for the Vatsas. If the hundred-thousand fire oblation or the like is to be accomplished over many days, the caru-sviṣṭakṛt and so forth are to be performed on the very first day. The worship of the planets is to be performed every day until the completion of the fire oblation; in the ten-million fire oblation, a full offering \[is made\] at every thousand \[oblations\]. At the conclusion of the fire oblation, having worshipped the fire and performed \[the rites\] up to the atonement fire oblations beginning with the sviṣṭakṛt, having offered black-gram and cooked-rice propitiatory offerings all around the fire to the nine planets, to the north of the sacrificial altar to the seven beginning with Vināyaka, and to Garutmat with their respective mantras, he should have a propitiatory offering to the protector of the field cast at the crossroad by a brāhmaṇa or a śūdra. Then, having washed his feet, he should offer the full offering with ghee taken twelve times or four times, together with cloth, a coconut, and so forth. The mantras in this regard: For 'samudrād ūrmiḥ', the ṛṣi is Gautama or Vāmadeva, the deity is Agni, the metre is triṣṭubh. Mantra: 'Oṃ. Homage to the ocean, to the bird, to the lord of rivers. Offer ye to Viśvakarman, the father of all rivers, the offering that is ever to be remembered by mortals.' For 'mūrdhānaṃ divaḥ', Bharadvāja the son of Bṛhaspati is the ṛṣi, Vaiśvānara is the deity, triṣṭubh is the metre. Mantra: 'Oṃ. The head of heaven, the navel of the earth, Vaiśvānara, Agni born for the cosmic order, the universal monarch, the guest of men, a vessel in their mouth—may the gods bring him forth.' For 'punas tvā agniḥ', the Vasus, Rudras, and Ādityas are the deities, triṣṭubh is the metre. ### [3.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.1.5) Mantra: 'Oṃ. May the Ādityas, the Rudras, and the Vasus kindle you again; may the brāhmaṇas \[kindle you\] again with treasures through sacrifices. Increase your bodies with ghee; may the desires of the sacrificer be fulfilled.' For 'pūrṇā darvi', the Viśvedevas are the ṛṣis, Śatakratu is the deity, anuṣṭubh is the metre. Mantra: 'Oṃ. Fly away, full ladle; fly back, well-filled! Like one buying and selling, bring here food and vigour, O Śatakratu.' For 'sapta te agne samidhaḥ', the deity is the sevenfold Agni. Mantra: 'Oṃ. Seven are your firewood sticks, O Agni; seven are your tongues; seven are the ṛṣis; seven are your dear abodes. Seven hotṛs sacrifice to you in sevenfold ways; fill your seven wombs with ghee.' For 'dhāmno dhāmnaḥ', the ṛṣi is Vāmadeva, the Waters are the deity, jagatī is the metre. ### [3.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.1.6) Mantra: 'Oṃ. From every abode, O King Varuṇa, release \[us\] from this; if we have sworn by the waters, by the cow, O Varuṇa, then release \[us\] from that, O Varuṇa.' Having offered with these \[mantras\], the ritual relinquishment is: 'This is for Agni Vaiśvānara, for the Vasus, Rudras, and Ādityas, for Śatakratu, and for the sevenfold Agni, not for me.' Then he should pour the stream of vasu. The mantras there: For the nine \[verses\] beginning with 'agnim īḷe', Madhucchandas is the ṛṣi, Agni is the deity, gāyatrī is the metre. For the six \[verses\] beginning with 'viṣṇor nu kam', Dīrghatamas is the ṛṣi, Viṣṇu is the deity, triṣṭubh is the metre. For the fifteen \[verses\] beginning with 'ā te pitā', Gṛtsamada is the ṛṣi, Rudra is the deity, triṣṭubh is the metre. For the ten \[verses\] beginning with 'svādiṣṭhayā', Madhucchandas is the ṛṣi, Pavamāna Soma is the deity, gāyatrī is the metre. And \[he chants\] the Mahāvaiśvānara and Jyeṣṭha sāmans; having concluded the remainder of the rite beginning with the releasing of the full vessel, and having brought about the well-being of the sacrificer, he should consecrate the sacrificer, who is seated upon an auspicious seat over a svastika design in the north-eastern part of the pit, with the water of the planetary sacred pots, by means of \[the hymns\] beginning with 'samudrajyeṣṭhāḥ' and \[the verses\] beginning with 'surās tvām'. Here the wife is on the left. Then the sacrificer, having anointed himself with all medicinal herbs and bathed, \[is consecrated\] also with Purāṇic \[verses\]. And they are: 'May the gods consecrate you—Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Maheśvara; Vāsudeva, the lord of the world, and the omnipresent Saṃkarṣaṇa. / May Pradyumna and Aniruddha bring you victory. / May Indra, lord Agni, Yama, and Nirṛti, / Varuṇa, Pavana, Kubera, and Śiva, / along with Brahmā, all the guardians of the directions, protect me always. / May Kīrti, Lakṣmī, Dhṛti, Medhā, Puṣṭi, Śraddhā, Kriyā, Mati, / Buddhi, Lajjā, Vapuḥ, Śānti, Kānti, and Tuṣṭi—the Mothers— / and these wives of the gods who have assembled together consecrate you. / May the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn— / may the satisfied planets, \[including\] Rāhu and Ketu, consecrate you. / May the gods, dānavas, gandharvas, yakṣas, rākṣasas, and pannagas, / the ṛṣis, sages, cows, and mothers of the gods, / the wives of the gods, trees, nāgas, daityas, and hosts of apsarases, / weapons, all sacred scriptures, kings, and mounts \[protect you\].' ### [3.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.1.7) “And herbs, jewels, and whatever are parts of time, / rivers, oceans, mountains, holy fords, and clouds forever, / let these sprinkle you for the attainment of all desired aims.” // Then the performer, facing east, behind the fire, having worshiped the preceptor and the officiating priests who face north, having stated the place and time, saying: “In this planetary sacrifice called the Ayutahoma performed by me, I give to the preceptor and all the officiating priests of various lineages this kapilā cow dedicated to Rudra, which forms the concluding completion, together with the sacrificial fee; \[it is\] no longer mine,” should recite: “O Kapilā, you are to be worshiped by all gods, O Rohiṇī! / Since you consist of holy fords and deities, therefore grant me peace!” This is to be understood for the subsequent \[gifts\] as well: “You, O conch, are pure among pure things and the blessing among blessings! / You are forever held by Viṣṇu; therefore grant me peace!”—thus a conch to Soma. “You are Dharma in the form of a bull, causing delight to the world, / the seat of the eight-formed \[Śiva\]; therefore grant me peace!”—a bull to Bhauma. “Dwelling in the womb of Hiraṇyagarbha, the golden seed of the fire-god, / bestower of endless meritorious fruit, grant me peace!”—thus gold to Budha. “Since a pair of yellow garments is dear to Vāsudeva, / from giving it may Viṣṇu be pleased with me and be the giver of peace!”—thus a yellow garment to Guru. “Since you, O Viṣṇu, in the form of a horse, are born from nectar, / the constant mount of the moon and the sun, therefore grant me peace!”—thus a horse to Śukra. “Since you are famed as the black cow, resembling the color of \[dark\] hair, / ever destroying all sins, therefore grant me peace!”—thus a black cow to Śani. “Since iron implements, ploughs, weapons, and so forth / are always dependent on you, therefore grant me peace!”—thus a goat to Ketu. Or cows to all \[deities\]: “The fourteen worlds reside in the limbs of cows. / Since \[this is so\], let there be well-being for me in this world and in the next”—thus \[a cow\] is to be given. Or one may give gold to all. ### [3.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.1.8) For the pleasure of all, a bed, jewels, and land are to be given with a sacrificial fee. The mantras for that are: “Since the bed of Keśava and of Śiva is never vacant, / may this bed not be vacant for me, given life after life!” / “Just as all deities reside in all gems, / so may the gods grant me peace by the gift of gems!” / “Just as other gifts are not worth a sixteenth part / of the gift of land, let there be peace for me from the gift of land!” He should also give clothing, gold, and jewels according to capacity. Then, having performed the concluding worship of the planets, having dismissed them with “May the hosts of deities go…,” having worshiped the fire, having applied sacred ash, having dismissed \[the fire\] with “Go, go, O best of gods…,” and having fed the Brahmins according to the prescribed number, \[he concludes\]: “This rite is offered to the Lord.” Thus ends the Ayutahoma composed by Kamalākara. Now the procedure for the Lakṣahoma from the Matsyapurāṇa: “This Ayutahoma has been described; now hear the Lakṣahoma, / since the wise know the Lakṣahoma to be for the attainment of all desires. / The Lakṣahoma was declared by the Self-born \[Brahmā\] to be ten times greater than this, / both in oblations with effort and likewise in sacrificial fees.” Now the officiating priests stated by Bṛhatparāśara: “Even numbers of officiating priests should be appointed, Brahmins who are wise; / Brahmins constantly devoted to recitation should be appointed by him for that rite, / eating roots, bulbs, and fruits, or consuming curd and milk.” In the Matsyapurāṇa: “Two cubits wide and likewise four cubits long then…” (The phrase “four cubits long” is an alternative view regarding barley or the like; others say this is a statement of the surface area: for in a side of two cubits there is a surface area of four cubits, thus they say there is only one view). ### [3.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.1.9) “In a Lakṣahoma, the pit should have the vulva-mouth and three steps. / The first step should be made two fingers high by the wise, / the second there is declared to be two fingers high; / the third is four fingers in both height and breadth. / A breadth of four fingers is also commended for the preceding two. / To the north-east of it, \[one should prepare\] an area measuring three spans, / sloping toward the north-east, likewise square and level. / The raised platform was declared by Viśvakarman to be half the diameter in height, / adorned with two tiers for the installation of the gods. / The first tier is declared to be two fingers high; / then above it two tiers are said to have an elevation of three fingers. / A width of two fingers for all of them is declared by the wise. / The wall of the platform above that should be ten fingers high. / On that, one should invoke the gods upon white rice grains as before.” One who desires prosperity should also install Garuḍa additionally there. Nor is he to be installed at the eastern side of the whole altar, according to the principle: “At the end, according to Bādarāyaṇa.” The mantras for that invocation are: “O you whose body is the sound of the Sāman, mount of the Supreme Lord, / ever removing poison and sin, therefore grant me peace!” Or the reading is: “remover of poison.” Having consecrated the pitcher as before, he should perform the fire oblation in the same manner. Having offered a hundred thousand \[oblations\], with the number of firewood sticks and so forth as before, having offered firewood sticks, ghee, and boiled grain offering as before, and having offered the oblation whose deity is Garuḍa with “You are the well-winged Garutmān…,” one should perform the Lakṣahoma with the sacred utterances (vyāhṛtis); this is the meaning. Mantra: “Om, you are the well-winged Garutmān; the trivṛt is your head, the Gāyatrī your eye, the stoma your breath, the Sāman your body, the Vāmadevya \[and\] the Bṛhat and Rathantara your wings, the yajñāyajñiya your tail, the metres your limbs, the altars your claws, the Yajus verses your name. You are the well-winged Garutmān; go to heaven, fly to the celestial realm!” ### [3.1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.1.10) From a pot of ghee, one should pour a continuous stream of wealth (vasordhārā) over the fire. Having made an udumbara \[wooden ladle\] resembling a sruva ladle, moist, straight, free of hollows, and one cubit in length, he should then pour the stream of ghee properly over the fire with both of them. He should also have \[the priests\] recite the auspicious hymn (śamyuvāka), the hymn to Agni, to Viṣṇu, to Rudra, to Soma, and the great Vaiśvānara chant. Of the nine \[verses beginning with\] ‘agnim īḷe’, the seer is Madhucchandas, the deity is Agni, and the meter is gāyatrī. Of the six \[verses beginning with\] ‘viṣṇor nu kam’, the seer is Dīrghatamas, the deity is Viṣṇu, and the meter is triṣṭubh. Of the ten \[verses beginning with\] ‘svādiṣṭhayā’, the seer is Madhucchandas, the deity is Soma, and the meter is gāyatrī. Of the great Vaiśvānara chant, Vaiśvānara is the seer and the deity, and the meters are jagatī and bṛhatī. Of the senior chant (jyeṣṭhasāman) \[beginning with\] ‘mūrdhānaṃ divaḥ’, the seers are the two Bharadvājas, the deity is Vaiśvānara, and the meter is triṣṭubh. And the bath and svastivācana of the sacrificer are as before. Dakṣiṇās are to be given in sequence by the sacrificer as before. Likewise, ten or eight officiating priests should be engaged in the lakṣahoma according to one's capacity, or four who are free from jealousy. One should give everything tenfold in excess of the nine-planet sacrifice in the lakṣahoma; and, O best of sages, one should also give ornaments according to one's capacity. Here, gifts should be given according to capacity by one desiring prosperity: one brāhmaṇa for every hundred offerings, or one for every thousand—such is the meaning. As for the fruit: He is worshipped in the world of Śiva by the hosts of Vasus, Ādityas, and Maruts; having spent eight hundred cosmic ages (kalpa) there, he then attains liberation. But one with desires who performs this lakṣahoma according to the rules attains all desires and enjoys an eternal state. One desiring a son obtains a son; one desiring wealth obtains wealth; one desiring a wife obtains a wife; and an unmarried girl obtains an auspicious husband. One who has fallen from kingship obtains kingship, and one desiring fortune obtains fortune. Whatever desire he wishes for, that he fully obtains. But one who performs it without desire reaches the supreme Brahman and beyond. Thus the lakṣahoma. Now the koṭihoma, in the Matsyapurāṇa: ‘The koṭihoma is proclaimed by the Self-born to be a hundred times greater than this; ### [3.1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.1.11) in offerings, in effort, in dakṣiṇās, and in fruit. The invocation and dismissal of the household deities are as before. The fire oblation mantras are as stated before, as is the case for the bath and the gifting. Understand this special detail regarding the fire pit, pavilion, and altars: In the koṭihoma, with effort, \[the pit should be\] four cubits \[wide\] and square, furnished with two vulva-shaped openings, and they say that it too has three stepped borders.’ ‘One vulva-shaped opening is in the west, the other in the south’—so it is stated in Hemādri and the Madanaratna. ‘And the altar in the koṭihoma should be four spans \[in size\], square all around, and covered with three cloths. The size of the raised edge is as stated before, as is the height of the platform. And the four-faced pavilion should be sixteen cubits \[in extent\]. Stationing at the eastern door a Rigvedic priest who has mastered the Veda, a Yajurvedic priest is to be stationed at the southern \[door\], a Samavedic priest at the western, and likewise the wise man should station an Atharvavedic priest at the northern door. Eight brāhmaṇas who know the Veda and the auxiliary disciplines of the Veda are to be invited for the fire oblation; having gathered twelve brāhmaṇas in total, he should worship them with devotion using garments, garlands, ointments, and all kinds of ornaments, as before. Reciting the Rātrisūkta, the Raudrasūkta, the Pāvamānasūkta, the Sumaṅgalasūkta, and the propitiatory hymn of Rigvedic verses, he should sit facing north at the eastern door. At the southern door, he should have the excellent Yajurvedic priest recite the hymn to Indra, to Soma, to Rudra, the Kūṣmāṇḍa hymns, and the propitiatory hymn. O King, at the western door the chanter of the Sāmaveda should recite the Sauvarṇa, the Madhyama, the hymn to Agni, the Rudrasaṃhitā, the Jyeṣṭhasāman, and the propitiatory chant. At the northern door, O King, the knower of the Atharvaveda should recite the Śāntisūkta, the hymn to Sūrya, the auspicious Śākunika hymn, and the Pauṣṭika hymn. The fire oblation is to be performed there by eight brāhmaṇas as before; and the mantras for the bath and gifting are the very same, O best of sages. And the procedure for the continuous stream of wealth (vasordhārā) is taught to be just like in the lakṣahoma. One who performs the koṭihoma according to this rule obtains all desires and then goes to the realm of Viṣṇu. ### [3.1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.1.12) Whatever fruit one who knows righteousness obtains by performing eighteen thousand horse sacrifices (aśvamedha), that he enjoys from the koṭihoma. Thousands of slayings of brāhmaṇas and tens of millions of embryo-killings are destroyed by the koṭihoma, exactly as spoken by Śiva.’ Thus the rite of koṭihoma in the Matsyapurāṇa. Now the rite of the Nṛsiṃha fire oblation. The Nṛsiṃha fire oblation: A specific rule of the Nṛsiṃha fire oblation in the Nṛsiṃhapurāṇa: ‘Upon seeing a terrible nightmare, upon the arising of torment from the planets, or especially if an icon strikes, blazes, or is seen covered with sweat, O son of kings, or when afflicted by a great fever, the wise man should himself pour, or have poured by learned men, a continuous stream \[of water/ghee\] upon the head of the god Narasiṃha. At the solstices and the equinoxes, and likewise at lunar and solar eclipses, having worshipped Narasiṃha, he should have the lakṣahoma performed. In the event of drought, a major epidemic, fever, or fear of disease, the ruler of men should have the lakṣahoma performed by brāhmaṇas who have mastered the Veda, after worshipping Narasiṃha, to protect the village. Seeing an affliction or death of the subjects and of himself, having thoroughly worshipped with care in a temple of Narasiṃha or in a shrine of Śaṅkara, he should perform the koṭihoma. The size of the fire pit is to be one cubit on all sides. Being celibate and observing vows, especially for three nights, or having fasted for a day and a night, he should then recite the Gāyatrī ten thousand times. Being without food, pure, and with all senses restrained, they, free of laziness, should then begin the sacrifice and the fire oblation. The wise man, with a concentrated mind, should first make offerings with the Gāyatrī using barley, grain, and sesame seeds mixed together, accompanied by the utterance of “svāhā”. Then afterward, he should offer sesame and the rest with the Vyāhṛtis, until the count is completed—whether a hundred thousand (lakṣa) or ten million (koṭi). Each day he should perform it preceded by the worship of Acyuta; he should give food for as long as he performs the fire oblation. When it is completed, he should give the dakṣiṇā and then sprinkle with water. When this is done, for the village, the king, and the countryside...’ ### [3.1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.1.13) always becomes a propitiatory rite that pacifies all afflictions. Thus ends the procedure for the Nṛsiṃha fire oblation. Now, the procedure for the hundred-thousand and ten-million fire oblations of the Gāyatrī. (In Hemādri, the Madanaratna, and the Devīpurāṇa): / One should make a hexagonal Śiva \[linga\] endowed with the characteristics, made of cat's-eye gem, on a golden pedestal rich in splendid beauty, with the moon and the sun, and the Mothers there; // 1 ### [3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.2) \[the goddesses\] beginning with Carcikā should be arranged beginning in the east. / There, worship of the planets should be performed as before. // 2 ### [3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.3) A hundred-thousand fire oblation, averting all affliction, should be performed / with the Gāyatrī, with the planetary mantras, with the Kūṣmāṇḍa mantras, with those addressed to Jātavedas, // 3 ### [3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.4) with those belonging to Indra, Varuṇa, Agni, Vāyu, and Yama, along with the Vaikṛta \[mantras\]. / A fire oblation of one hundred thousand is indeed prescribed here as superior; / the division of mantras here is indeed prescribed as superior. // 4 ### [3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.5) For destroying all afflictions, a ten-million fire oblation brings auspiciousness. / Barley, unhusked rice, ghee, milk, sesame, Italian millet, prasārikā, / lotus, uśīra grass, bilva leaves, and mango leaves are prescribed for the fire oblation. // 5 ### [3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.6) In the same work, Brahmā said: / I will declare the hundred-thousand fire oblation as it was declared there by Śambhu. / When an earthquake occurs, or a conflagration of the quarters, or when a planetary war takes place, // 6 ### [3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.7) and when a comet is sighted, or when the sun trembles, / or when the sun is black in color or marked with a spot, // 7 ### [3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.8) or when there is a rain of blood, and the pulses \[of people\] become irregular, / when smoke issues from the sky, or fire stands in the midst of water, // 8 ### [3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.9) and when afflictions arise in the world, upon the occurrence of various portents; / or in whose zodiacal sign five, six, or seven planets stand, O lord of the gods; // 9 ### [3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.10) or upon an eclipse of the moon and the sun, or when planets stand in the eighth house, / worship of the sun and of Śiva should be performed to destroy what is inauspicious. // 10 ### [3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.11) The hundred-thousand fire oblation is a great fire oblation; the ten-million fire oblation has been described above. / A gift of cows, land, gold, garments, horses, and sesame brings auspiciousness. // 11 ### [3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.12) Milk porridge, curds, milk, and ghee should be offered as the supreme food offering. / It should be performed on a single linga, or in the houses of brahmins. // 12 ### [3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.13) "A single linga" means one devoid of \[an image of\] the bull, etc. / Then, one should make fire oblations in a fire-pit one arm's length, or else one shank's length, / O king of the gods; such a rule does not apply to others. // 13 ### [3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.14) I will tell you the rule that pertains to the hundred-thousand fire oblation: / the fire-pit should be four cubits in width, O best of the gods; // 14 ### [3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.15) sixteen angulas in width, sixteen angulas in height; / an elevation of four angulas is declared for a \[fire-pit of\] four cubits. // 15 ### [3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.16) The width is twelve angulas; the length is said to be twice that. / A vulva-shaped lip should be made on the fire-pit; an oversized one is never commended anywhere. // 16 ### [3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.17) Barley, unhusked rice, ghee, milk, sesame, and leaves of Italian millet, / and mango leaves, O king of the gods, and firewood sticks of the palāśa tree, // 17 ### [3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.18) dūrvā grass shoots, best śamī \[wood\], and auspicious udumbara \[sticks\] bring good fortune; / the Gāyatrī, the Tryambaka mantra, and those addressed to Śambhu are recited; // 18 ### [3.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.19) and with the mantra to Jātavedas, and with the mantra to Indra, / or with "Sahasraśīrṣā..." or "Namo hiraṇyabāhave..."; // 19 ### [3.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.20) with Rudra mantras, with solar mantras, and with those taught in the Pāñcarātra Āgamas, / one should offer oblations in number: one hundred, eight, or one thousand. // 20 ### [3.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.21) Lotus, blue lotus, bilva, and the like are auspicious substances for the fire oblation. / Trembling or sweating in the body, weeping without cause, babbling, // 21 ### [3.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.22) or \[such signs\] in deities, O ruler of gods—portents that cause ruin: / one should perform the hundred-thousand fire oblation, or else the ten-million fire oblation. // 22 ### [3.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.23) A great ceremonial bath \[performed\] during the milking of cows in a shrine of Rudra brings auspiciousness; / otherwise, a terrible death-dealing \[affliction\] or disturbance of the kingdom arises. // 23 ### [3.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.24) Those who are gods are all the planets, and those who are planets are mobile beings. / By continually worshiping them, a person will attain long life. // 24 ### [3.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.25) "Here is the specific rule stated in the Bṛhat-Parāśara for the hundred-thousand fire oblation and the ten-million fire oblation:" / An even number of officiating priests should be appointed, learned brahmins / endowed with observances and vows, accompanied indeed by the sovereigns. // 25 ### [3.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.26) Brahmins dedicated constantly to ritual recitation should always be engaged, / taking food of bulbs, roots, and fruits, or eating curds and milk; // 26 ### [3.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.27) \[to\] Agni and Soma, Sūrya, Viṣṇu, Prajāpati, / the Viśvedevas, Mahendra, Mitra, and also Sviṣṭakṛt, // 27 ### [3.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.28) sacrificial firewood sticks smeared with curds, honey, and ghee / one should offer into the fire a hundred thousand times with mantras in their proper order: // 28 ### [3.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.29) twenty-four \[thousand\] with the Gāyatrī; six with "Mā nas toke"; / eighteen with the mantras of the planets, etc.; and four with mantras having Viṣṇu as deity; // 29 ### [3.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.30) one should offer five \[thousand\] with the Kūṣmāṇḍa mantras, and sixteen with the Kirikeya mantras; / one should offer ten thousand with the verse "Jātavedase..."; // 30 ### [3.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.31) one should offer five thousand with mantras having Indra as deity. / In the ten-million fire oblation, \[the fire-pit is\] four cubits, rectangular and square; // 31 ### [3.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.32) endowed with two openings with vulva-shaped lips; they say it also has three stepped tiers. / In the ten-million fire oblation, the sacrificial altar should indeed be four cubits; // 32 ### [3.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.33) it is square all around, surrounded by three brahmins. / (Having stated the four door-guardians in the place of the four Vedas:) / Eight sacrificers should be appointed who know the Vedas and auxiliary sciences. // 33 ### [3.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.34) Thus these twelve should be honored with garments, garlands, and unguents. / (Other particulars are as before. Saṃvarta said:) / O venerable one, when a great portent occurs, or an earthquake, // 34 ### [3.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.35) and when there is a thunderbolt, a shower of dust, or the disruption of planets, / in afflictions of one's birth lunar mansion, and in fears of drought, // 35 ### [3.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.37) in cruel afflictions caused by planets, in famine, in turmoil of the country, / when diseases have arisen, and when the body is intensely afflicted, // 37 ### [3.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.38) declare to me, O best of brahmins, that which bestows health upon men. / Sanatkumāra said: / Listen, O king, I will declare the supreme propitiatory rite // 38 ### [3.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.39) called the ten-million fire oblation, matchless, granting the fruit of all desires, / by which sins such as the murder of a brahmin are destroyed instantly; // 39 ### [3.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.40) portents are pacified and great happiness is attained. / I will declare its ritual procedure; listen with undivided mind. // 40 ### [3.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.41) One who desires one's own welfare should perform it in a temple, in a house, / at a sacred ford, or near Śiva, or on a mountain. 41 ### [3.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.42) Under an auspicious lunar mansion and astrological conjunction, on an astrologically favorable day endowed with all good qualities, / when favorable to the sacrificer, he should commence the koṭihoma. 42 ### [3.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.43) Having carefully worshipped a brāhmaṇa who has crossed to the further shore of the Vedas / with garments, ornaments, fragrant unguents, and garlands, 43 ### [3.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.44) and having bowed to him in accordance with rule, he should offer himself \[to him, saying\]: / ‘You are our refuge, father, and mother; you are the goal, you are the highest support. 44 ### [3.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.45) By your grace, O brāhmaṇa-seer, let everything in my heart come to pass; / for the purpose of deliverance from misfortune, perform for me this unsurpassed sacrifice, 45 ### [3.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.46) known as koṭihoma, peerless, for propitiation, fulfilling all desires.’ / Then the learned purohita, wearing white garments, pure, 46 ### [3.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.47) accompanied by virtuous, composed, and concentrated brāhmaṇas, / on a level, clean piece of ground, sloping towards the east or north, 47 ### [3.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.49) performing the auspicious rite, should have the puṇyāhavācana recited and properly worship the brāhmaṇas. / Then, together with the brāhmaṇas, he should lay out the auspicious pavilion with measuring lines. 49 ### [3.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.50) In the center of the pavilion, the wise man should make a fire pit / measuring four cubits in dimension, and of the same length. 50 ### [3.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.51) Its three tiers should be twelve finger-breadths wide; / with concentrated mind, he should fashion the yoni of the same size. 51 ### [3.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.52) To the east of the fire pit, the wise man should make a sacrificial altar, / four cubits \[wide\], level, and one cubit high, O king. 52 ### [3.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.53) There the wise man should carefully perform the installation of the gods. / Then, having smeared the ground around the pavilion all over, 53 ### [3.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.54) he should place sacred pots there filled with water in the four directions, / adorned with shoots of aśvattha, plakṣa, mango, and other trees. 54 ### [3.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.55) The wise man should set up an awning over the pavilion / and erect archways in all the directions. 55 ### [3.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.56) Having thus assembled the provisions, the fully composed purohita, / with the recitation of puṇyāha and cries of victory, should commence the fire oblation rite. 56 ### [3.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.57) Having installed the deities upon the sacrificial altar, who are to be described, O subduer of foes: / Brahmā in the eastern part, and the god Janārdana in the center; 57 ### [3.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.58) likewise Rudra in the west, and the Vasus in the north; / the gentle \[Soma\] in the northwest, \[Śiva\] in the northeast, and the world guardians in succession. 58 ### [3.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.59) Having thus installed the gods in their respective places, O best of kings, / he should worship them according to rule with garments, fragrant unguents, and garlands, 59 ### [3.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.60) with mantras declared in the Veda containing their characteristic marks, and those declared in the Purāṇas, individually: / the Ādityas, Vasus, Rudras, Maruts, and the world guardians; 60 ### [3.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.61) Brahmā, Janārdana, the trident-bearer \[Śiva\], Bhaga, and Aryaman. / Having carefully worshipped the gods thus brought near, the wise man, 61 ### [3.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.62) with various offerings of food, edibles, fruits, and lamps, / should then, along with those twice-born \[priests\], in accordance with rule, 62 ### [3.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.63) perform the consecration of the fire pit as stated by those who reflect on the Veda. / Then he should kindle the fire, known by the name Ghanārcis. 63 ### [3.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.64) He should appoint brāhmaṇas there numbering one hundred, O best of kings; / in the absence of many, he may appoint as many as are obtainable: 64 ### [3.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.65) advanced in learning, advanced in age, householders, with subdued senses. 65 ### [3.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.66) This \[fire\] has four faces and seven tongues, O ruler of the earth; / having thus made it \[single-faced or multi-faced\], that single \[fire pit\] is considered to bestow all desires. 66 ### [3.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.67) The fire oblation is to be performed at the eastern face with Ṛg\[vedic verses\], at the northern face with Yajur\[vedic formulas\], / at the western face with Sāma\[vedic chants\], and at the southern face with Atharva\[vedic verses\]. 67 ### [3.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.68) “With Ṛg\[vedic verses\]” means by the priests of the Ṛgveda: — / All the fire oblations there are prescribed with the vyāhṛtis, / preceded by the praṇava, containing their characteristic marks, and ending with the word ‘svāhā’. 68 ### [3.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.69) He should offer oblations to all the gods who have been arranged upon the sacrificial altar; / in this manner he should perform the foremost sacrifice called koṭihoma. 69 ### [3.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.70) Black sesame seeds smeared with ghee, mixed with a little rice paddy, / are to be offered in the koṭihoma, and firewood sticks originating from the palāśa tree. 70 ### [3.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.71) When the fire oblation is fully concluded, he should offer the auspicious full oblation. / The full oblation in the koṭihoma is declared, O ruler of men, 71 ### [3.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.72) by those learned in the śāstras to be ten thousand \[in number\], O best of kings. 72 ### [3.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.73) And the sacrificial fee is a thousand milch cows, a thousand conches, and so forth for all; or in the view where \[only\] cattle are given, nine hundred cattle, \[or\] nine hundred gold coins. Now the divisions of the koṭihoma into hundred-faced, ten-faced, two-faced, and one-faced are stated: Saṃvaraṇa said: — / ‘Because of the vastness of the ritual, O brāhmaṇa, the koṭihoma is exceedingly difficult to perform; / the observances such as celibacy are difficult to observe, so I consider. 73 ### [3.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.74) The restraint of the brāhmaṇas and \[austerities such as\] sleeping on the bare ground are difficult to maintain; / the heaviness or lightness of the task depends on the occasion, time, and so forth. 74 ### [3.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.75) Tell me, O son of Brahmā, an abridgement of the koṭihoma.’ / Sanatkumāra said: — / ‘Hundred-faced, ten-faced, two-faced, and one-faced: 75 ### [3.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.76) a fourfold koṭihoma is prescribed, O great king, / taking into account the gravity of the undertaking, or of the occasion. 76 ### [3.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.77) Listen to how the koṭihoma should be performed in abridged form: / having made a hundred divine fire pits, measured according to the rule, 77 ### [3.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.78) he should then assign ten brāhmaṇas to each single fire pit; / but in the alternative of an immediate performance, a thousand brāhmaṇas are prescribed. 78 ### [3.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.80) Just as in the case of a multiplicity of fire pits in a sacrifice such as the Rājasūya, / there is indeed a multiplicity of fires, yet it is divided within \[a single\] sacrifice, 80 ### [3.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.81) so too here, even when a hundred fire pits are supplied with the fire Ghanārcis, / the sacrifice remains one single koṭihoma, without a doubt. 81 ### [3.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.82) He who performs it thus swiftly with priests on account of the gravity of the undertaking, / that koṭihoma is to be recognized as “hundred-faced”, without a doubt. 82 ### [3.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.83) Here, the fire pits are of one cubit in size. This refers to quickly combustible substances such as ghee. But in the case of sesame, barley, and the like, in a hundredth part of a lakh: / The fire pit should be of three cubits for half a lakh; for an offering of a lakh, it should be four cubits; / and when an offering of ten thousand is to be made, the fire pit should be just one cubit. // 83 ### [3.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.84) And double for an offering of a lakh, and fourfold for a koṭihoma: / this should be understood as stated in another mantra-treatise. // 84 ### [3.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.85) Thus the hundred-faced \[rite\]. / When the rite must be performed in a few days, at the onset of the rainy season, / then the koṭihoma should be performed ten-faced, O great ascetic. // 85 ### [3.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.86) One should divide and employ two hundred Brahmins there. / The pavilion should be fifty cubits, or twenty-five cubits. // 86 ### [3.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.87) Thus the ten-faced \[rite\]. / Where, having constructed two fire pits and divided the fire, / the twice-born should repeatedly offer oblations after consecrating it according to rule, // 87 ### [3.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.88) and having engaged a hundred Brahmins, dividing them there, / when the time for performance has arrived, in a month or in half a month, // 88 ### [3.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.89) then the koṭihoma should be performed two-faced by the wise. / When, however, the sacrificer would complete the sacrifice at his own will, // 89 ### [3.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.90) over a long time, O king, then it should be one-faced. / The fire situated in a single fire pit, \[tended\] by collected men of one mind— // 90 ### [3.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.91) here there is no fixed rule for the number of Brahmins, O best of men; / nor is there a fixed rule for time: the sacrifice is declared to be according to one's desire. // 91 ### [3.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.92) For one desiring to perform it repeatedly, like the rites of the Cāturmāsya and the like, / this all-time sacrifice should be performed continuously. // 92 ### [3.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.93) That which is one-faced, O king, takes place over a long time, / since life is prescribed as finite, and wealth is always unstable. // 93 ### [3.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.94) Therefore it should be done in brief; a pious work is praised. / Then, when the sacrifice has concluded, he should, well-concentrated, cause to be performed \[the concluding rites\] // 94 ### [3.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.95) with the sound of conches and musical instruments, and with the resonant chant of the Veda. / Then he should give to the Brahmins, the officiating priests, and the hundred śrotriyas // 95 ### [3.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.96) earrings made of various golds, each weighing a niṣka, O king; / and a hundred cows should be given, as well as a hundred horses; // 96 ### [3.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.97) and he should cause a thousand gold pieces to be given to all of them. / He should honor the royal priest with villages, elephants, chariots, and horses. // 97 ### [3.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.98) Then he should bathe in the concluding bath with those pots prepared beforehand, / using the mantra declared for the lakṣahoma, which constantly causes victory. // 98 ### [3.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.99) Whoever concludes the auspicious koṭihoma sacrifice in this manner / attains health, beloved sons, and increase of life; // 99 ### [3.100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.100) fear of drought, fear of portents, / famine, and planetary affliction come to pacification on the earth. // 100 ### [3.101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.101) This holy \[rite\], destructive of sin, bestower of the fruit of all deeds, / was declared to the king by the sage named Sanaka. // 101 ### [3.102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102) Calming all afflictions, for the prosperity of the household, / those men who cause the koṭihoma to be performed, O king, / attaining the desired pleasures of the mind to their heart's content, / go to the abode of Śakra, radiant, their inner beings purified. // 102 ### [3.102\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_1) Thus ends the procedure for the koṭihoma in the Bhaviṣyottara \[Purāṇa\]. ### [3.102\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_2) Now the propitiatory rite for childbirth. / In that regard, since the propitiation for multiple births has already been stated, the gomukha-prasava is now declared. / Garga: / Having bowed to the Sun, recalling the atonement / for the destruction of all misfortune that has been stated in the Jyotirarṇava, I shall speak: // 1 ### [3.102\_3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_3) When misfortune threatens the father, when misfortune threatens the son, and likewise when misfortune threatens the mother— / the meaning is: if there is misfortune upon birth in a certain lunar mansion, one should perform this in that case— / one should perform the atonement in that manner for the pacification of each respective defect. // 2 ### [3.102\_4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_4) Under Revatī, Aśvinī, Puṣya, Āśleṣā, Citrā, Jyeṣṭhā, and Mūla— / for one born under these lunar mansions, one should likewise perform the cow-birth \[rite\]. // 3 ### [3.102\_5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_5) The word "likewise" is for the sake of cumulative addition. By this, the meaning is: having performed the propitiatory rite for that lunar mansion, etc., in the event of misfortune to the father and the like, one should also perform this. By the words "misfortune to the father," \[the evil of\] Mūla and the rest was already obtained; the repeated mention of Mūla and the rest is in order to include cases where that \[evil\] might be absent, such as in the fourth quarter of Mūla and the like. / On the birth lunar mansion or the threefold birth lunar mansion, on an auspicious weekday and an auspicious day, / having performed the unction and all other rites, preceded by decorating the house, // 4 ### [3.102\_6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_6) and having smeared the northeastern part of the house with cow dung, / \[he should draw\] a lotus with a pericarp using white powders. // 5 ### [3.102\_7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_7) Having scattered grains of rice there according to his means, / he should spread a new winnowing basket and a red cloth in the middle of it. // 6 ### [3.102\_8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_8) Placing the infant there, he should wrap it again with a thread— / the infant facing east, its feet downward, placed upon sesame and darbha grass. // 7 ### [3.102\_9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_9) Then, having shown the cow's face, \[the child\] being born anew from the cow's face, / he should bathe the child with bovine products with the \[hymn\] beginning "Viṣṇuḥ yonim". With the mantra "Gavām aṅgeṣu...", he should touch the limbs of the cow; / and with the mantra "Viṣṇoḥ śreṣṭhena...", \[touch\] the boy who has been born from the cow. ### [3.102\_10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_10) Then the ācārya, taking \[the child\], should give him to the mother who is looking on. / The father, having removed the cloth, should look upon his son's face. ### [3.102\_11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_11) Or it should be given to the father, and then he should give him to the mother. / The father, having removed the cloth, should look upon his son's face. ### [3.102\_12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_12) Then he should sprinkle the infant with cow urine, cow dung, milk, / curd, and ghee combined, with the mantras beginning with "Āpo hi ṣṭhā". ### [3.102\_13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_13) And then the father should smell the son on the head with that mantra: / "You are born from limb after limb; you are generated from the heart; ### [3.102\_14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_14) "You are indeed the self bearing the name of son; so live for a hundred autumns!" / Having smelled the child three times on the head, he should then set him down. ### [3.102\_15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_15) Afterward, he should have the puṇyāha pronounced by Brāhmaṇas who have mastered the Vedas. / And then, having worshiped that cow, he should give it to a poor priest. ### [3.102\_16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_16) He should give a cow, clothing, gold, and grain in order, beginning with \[the deity of\] the Sun. / Likewise, the father should give wealth according to his ability to the Brāhmaṇas. ### [3.102\_17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_17) Then he should perform the fire oblation according to the manner declared in his own recension. / Having performed the drawing of lines and other \[preliminaries\], he should proceed up to the first portion \[of ghee\]. ### [3.102\_18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_18) To the northeast of the fire oblation, \[he should set\] an auspicious pot upon grains. / Placing the five bovine products into the pot, he should cast sesame seeds into it. ### [3.102\_19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_19) "Astringent decoction, sap..." And covering it with a pair of cloths, he should then worship it with scents and other \[offerings\]. / Having worshiped Viṣṇu and Varuṇa according to rule upon an image, ### [3.102\_20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_20) touching the pitcher, he should consecrate it with mantras beginning with "Yata indra...". / "'Yata indra...' are the six verses, the remainder of the hymn..." With diligence, he should perform the fire oblation with \[an offering\] combined with curd, honey, and ghee. ### [3.102\_21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_21) "'Yuktena' means 'with urgency; with speed is the sense'..." With the three verses beginning "Āpo hi ṣṭhā", then "Apsu me somo...", / "Tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṃ padam...", \[and\] from the hymn "Akṣibhyām...": ### [3.102\_22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_22) with these verses, for each verse twenty-eight times, / or if unable, eight times, with curd, honey, and ghee combined. ### [3.102\_23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_23) And he should perform the fire oblation for the planets beginning with the Sun along with their mantras. / "Some say: 'He should perform the fire oblation for the planets combined with curd,' / because otherwise the mention of curd and the rest a second time would be futile." ### [3.102\_24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_24) Thus ends the propitiatory rite for childbirth. ### [3.102\_25.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.santi.santikamalakara~en-mt.3.102_25.1) Now follows the ritual manual for the birth from a cow. The performer makes the ritual resolution: "For the appeasement of the misfortune indicated by the birth of this boy under such-and-such a lunar mansion, I will perform the birth from a cow's face." Having first worshiped Gaṇeśa, he should choose the ācārya. The ācārya, having made a white powder lotus, \[places\] a winnowing basket upon grains of rice, spread a red cloth upon it, scatters sesame seeds there, places the infant in the winnowing basket facing east, binds the winnowing basket with thread, brings the cow's face near the child, visualizes the birth, bathes the child with the five bovine products with the hymn "Viṣṇur yonim...", and should touch the cow with the mantra "Gavām aṅgeṣu...". And the mantra is: "In the limbs of cows the fourteen worlds abide; therefore, may there be auspiciousness for him; therefore, bestow peace upon me." Then the father, having given \[him\] again to the mother, removes the cloth and looks upon his face. Then the ācārya should sprinkle the child with the five bovine products with the three verses beginning with "Āpo hi ṣṭhā". Then the father, having smelled the child three times on the head with the verse beginning "Aṅgād aṅgāt...", asks three times: "May you venerable ones pronounce the puṇyāha for this birth from a cow's face; thus may there be increase, prosperity, and welfare." He should give that cow to the ācārya. To please the planets, he should give cows, clothing, gold, grains, and an abundant sacrificial gift according to his capacity. Then the ācārya, having established the fire and the nine planets, having recited the anvādāna ending with "the two eyes \[of the sacrifice\] with ghee", there the principal \[offerings are\]: waters four times; with curd, honey, and ghee to Viṣṇu once; to Yakṣman with the hymn beginning "Akṣibhyām..." verse by verse, or twenty-eight times; having made an oblation to each of the planets individually; \[saying\] "to Sviṣṭakṛt with the remainder", at the end of the ghee portions, having installed a pitcher in the northeast, having cast into it the five bovine products, sesame seeds, and the decoctions of milky trees, having wrapped it with a pair of cloths, having invoked Viṣṇu upon a full vessel with "Tad viṣṇoḥ...", and Varuṇa with "Tat tvā yāmi...", having worshiped and touched the pitcher: of the six verses beginning with "Yata indra...", the seer is Pragātha son of Kaṇva, the deity is Indra... _First 136 of 323 passages. 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