Shantikamalakara 8.p9

8.p9

In the Ṛgvidhāna: / 'One who is afflicted with a terrible disease that takes away life / should fast on a fourteenth [tithi] of the dark [fortnight] and offer caru [in fire] / with that hymn to Rudra, verse by verse, restraining his speech and pure. / Having first made ghee oblations and then worshipped Śaṅkara, / he should sustain himself on the remainder of the sacrificial offering, living in seclusion and vigilant. / When a month has elapsed, he conquers death and is freed from diseases.' / In that very work: / 'A twice-born should indeed worship King Yama with the hymn / and prepare a pot-cooked grain offering sacred to Yama during the two fortnights. / On the eighth and on the fourteenth [tithi], he should worship with an offering of havis. / He should employ the hymn-mantra: "pareyivāṃsaṃ pravato…".'