Shantikamalakara 8.p14

8.p14

'One desiring rain should employ the hymn ending with "athāvaha…". / Restricting his diet, wearing wet clothes, it rains before long. / Having offered ten thousand reeds of cane smeared with milk into the fire / with this water hymn, he indeed obtains great rain.' / In that very work: / 'Wading into water up to the navel, facing east, self-controlled and pure, / he should worship the sun with the two hymns known as Trivṛt. / The meaning is: "tisro vācaḥ pra vada…", "parjanyāya pra gāyata…", etc. / It must be recited without eating by one who desires rain with effort. / When five nights have passed, he obtains great rain.' / Or likewise in that very work: / 'Desiring rain, having restricted his food, he should take refuge in Bṛhaspati / with milk porridge as a presentation and with fire oblation, endowed with reverence. / One desiring rain should employ [the mantra]: "bṛhaspate ati yad aryaḥ…". / And having paid homage to Parjanya, he obtains excellent rain.'