Shantikamalakara 4.113_108.4

4.113_108.4

Then, having invoked the World Guardians, the officiating priest, having installed the fire, the idol, and the planets, should add fuel to the fire: each of the nine planets with a specified number of firewood, caru, and ghee oblations; Bṛhaspati and the Ancestors each with twenty-eight oblations of boiled rice mixed with ghee, firewood, and ghee; the twenty-four deities beginning with Bhaga each with eight oblations of milk porridge and ghee; with the fifteen verses of 'rakṣohaṇaṃ kṛṇuṣva', eight oblations of kṛsara per verse; Savitṛ, Durgā, Tryambaka, Ṛtvikstuti, Vāstoṣpati, Agni, Kṣetrapati, Mitrāvaruṇā, and Agni each with eight oblations of kṛsara, firewood, ghee, and caru; Soma with thirteen oblations of milk porridge; Rudra with ghee taken four times; Agni, Vāyu, Sūrya, and Prajāpati with ghee; with the remainder, the sviṣṭakṛt, and so forth, performing up to the placing of the full platter, and having cooked the milk porridge and the kṛsara caru, he should carry out the ritual up to the two portions of ghee. Then the sacrificer should make the ritual renunciation designated for all the deities on the south. / Next, the presiding priest together with the officiating priests should perform the fire oblation. Namely: having offered to the nine planets, the principal deities, the counter-deities, Vināyaka and the rest, and the World Guardians, with their respective mantras; to the serpents with the mantra 'namo 'stu sarpebhyaḥ'; to Bṛhaspati and to the Ancestors with their respective mantras, having offered the four substances according to their respective numbers, he should offer to the twenty-four deities beginning with Bhaga with their name-mantras, eight times. / Then, the fifteen verses beginning with 'kṛṇuṣva' (Gotama Vāmadeva is the seer, Rakṣohan [the deity], Triṣṭubh [the metre]) are employed in the kṛsara oblation. / The Gāyatrī to Savitṛ, and 'jātavedase' (Kaśyapa is the seer, Durgā [the deity], Triṣṭubh [the metre]) are employed in the kṛsara oblation. / 'tryambakaṃ' (Vasiṣṭha is the seer, Rudra [the deity], Anuṣṭubh [the metre]) is employed in the kṛsara oblation.