Aitareyabrahmana 8.6

8.6

vyāghracarmaṇāstṛṇāty uttaralomnā prācīnagrīveṇa.
kṣatrāṃ vā etad āraṇyānām paśūnāṃ yad vyāghraḥ kṣatraṃ rājanyaḥ,
kṣatreṇaiva tat kṣatraṃ samardhayati.
tām paścāt prāṅ upaviśyācya jānn dakṣiṇam abhimantrayata
ubhābhyām pāṇibhyām ālabhyā+gniṣ ṭvā gāyatryā sayuk
chandasārohatu Savitoṣṇihā Somo 'nuṣṭubhā Bṛhaspatir bṛhatyā
Mitrāvaruṇau paṅktyendras triṣṭubhā Viśve devā jagatyā.
tān aham anu rājyāya sāmrājyāya bhaujyāya svārājyāya vairājyāya
pārameṣṭhyāya rājyāya māhārājyāyādhipatyāya svāvaśyāyātiṣṭhāyārohāmī/ty
etām āsandīm ārohed dakṣiṇenāgre jānunātha savyena
tat-tad itī+m̐ \
caturuttarair vai devāś chandobhiḥ sayug bhūtvaitāṃ
śriyam ārohan yasyām eta etarhi pratiṣṭhitā:
Agnir gāyatryā Savitoṣṇihā Somo 'nuṣṭubhā Bṛhaspatir
bṛhatyā Mitrāvaruṇau paṅktyendras triṣṭubhā Viśve devā jagatyā
te ete abhyanūcyete:
agner gāyatry abhavat sayugveti
kalpate ha vā asmai yogakṣema, uttarotta riṇīṃ ha śriyam aśnute,
'śnute ha prajānām aiśvaryam ādhipatyaṃ ya evam etā anu devatā
etām āsandīm ārohati kṣatriyaḥ sann
athainam abhiṣekṣyann apāṃ śāntiṃ vācayati
śivena mā cakṣuṣā paśyatāpaḥ śivayā tanvopa spṛśata tvacam me \
sarvām̐ agnīm̐r apsuṣado huve vo mayi varco balam ojo ni dhatteti
naitasyābhiṣiṣicānasyāśāntā āpo vīryaṃ nirhaṇann iti

viii. 6 (xxxvii. 2). He covers (it) with a tiger skin, skin uppermost, neck in front. The tiger is the lordly power of the wild animals, the Rājanya is the lordly power; thus he makes the lordly power prosper with the lordly power. From behind it he approaches it facing east bending the right knee, and taking hold of it with both hands he addresses it with

‘May Agni in unison with the Gāyatrī metre mount thee; Savitṛ with the Uṣṇih, Soma with the Anuṣṭubh, Bṛhaspati with the Bṛhatī, Mitra and Varuṇa with the Paṅkti, Indra with the Triṣṭubh, the All-gods with the Jagatī.’

With ‘After them I mount for kingship, for overlordship, for paramount rule, for self rule, for sovereignty, for supreme authority, for kingship, for great kingship, for suzerainty, for supremacy, for preeminence.’

He should mount the throne, with the right knee first, then the left. ‘Thus, thus (is it to be performed)’ (they say). The gods in unison with the metres increasing by four syllables mounted on the prosperity on which they now are established, Agni with the Gāyatrī, Savitṛ with the Uṣṇih, Soma with the Anuṣṭubh, Bṛhaspati with the Bṛhatī, Mitra and Varuṇa with the Paṅkti, Indra with the Triṣṭubh, the All-gods with the Jagatī. These two are mentioned in ‘The Gāyatrī hath become the yoke fellow of Agni’. Fortune attends him, prosperity ever increasing he attains, he attains control and overlordship over people who, being a Kṣatriya, thus mounts this throne after those deities. Then being about to anoint him, he makes him recite the appeasing of the waters

‘With eye propitious regard me, O waters;
With propitious body touch my skin;
All the Agnis that sit on the waters I invoke you;
Confer on me radiance, force and might,’

(thinking) ‘Let not the waters, unappeased, strike away the strength of him when anointed.’