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Aitareyabrahmana 8.5: adhyāya 37, khaṇḍaḥ 1-7

Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 8.5

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8.5

athātaḥ punarabhiṣekasyaiva
sūyate ha vā asya kṣatraṃ, yo dīkṣate kṣatriyaḥ san.
sa yadāvabhṛtād udetyānūbandhyayeṣṭvodavasyaty,
athainam udavasānīyāyāṃ saṃsthitāyām punar abhiṣiñcanti
tasyaite purastād eva sambhārā upakḷptā bhavanty:
audumbary āsandī.
tasyai prādeśamātrāḥ pādāḥ syur, aratnimātrāṇi śīrṣaṇyānūcyāni.
mauñjaṃ vivayanaṃ, vyāghracarmāstaraṇam, audumbaraś camasa, udumbaraśākhā.
tasminn etasmiṃś camase 'ṣṭātayāni niṣutāni bhavanti:
dadhi madhu sarpir ātapavarṣyā āpaḥ śaṣpāṇi ca tokmāni ca surā dūrvā
tad yaiṣā dakṣiṇā sphyavartanir veder bhavati,
tatraitām prācīm āsandīm pratiṣṭhāpayati.
tasyā antarvedi dvau pādau bhavato bahirvedi dvāv.
iyaṃ vai śrīs.
tasyā etat parimitaṃ rūpaṃ yad antarvedy,
athaiṣa bhūmāparimito yo bahirvedi.
tad yad asyā antarvedi dvau pādau bhavato bahirvedi dvā,
ubhayoḥ kāmayor upāptyai yaś cāntarvedi yaś ca bahirvedi

viii. 5 (xxxvii. 1). Now as to the renewed anointing. His lordly power is consecrated, who being a Kṣatriya consecrates himself. When he concludes, after coming out of the concluding bath and having offered the final offering of a cow, then they again anoint him when the concluding offering has been completed. For him in advance the following preparation has been made: a throne of Udumbara; its feet should be a span in size, the head (and foot) and the cross (boards) an ell in size, the cover seat of Muñja grass, the spread a tiger skin; a goblet of Udumbara; a branch of Udumbara. In this goblet are poured eight elements; curds, honey, melted butter, the waters of rain during heat, grass and green barley, liquor and Dūrvā grass. Where the line drawn by the sword on the south of the altar is, there he places the throne facing east. Two of its feet are within, two outside the altar. Prosperity is the (earth). What is within the altar is its limited form; what is without the altar is the unlimited space. In that its two feet are within the altar, two outside of the altar, (it serves) to obtain both desires, that which is within the altar and that without the altar.

Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

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