Aitareyabrahmana 8.5

8.5

Now therefore follows the repeated royal consecration. / The dominion of him who, being a kṣatriya, is consecrated is indeed pressed out. / When he rises up from the purificatory bath, offers the anūbandhyā animal sacrifice, and sets forth from the sacrificial ground, / then, when the conclusion of the departing offering has taken place, they consecrate him again. / For him, these equipments are prepared beforehand: / a throne of udumbara wood. / Its legs should be a span in height, the head-pieces and cross-bars a cubit long. / The interlacing is of muñja grass; a tiger-skin cover; an udumbara ladle, and an udumbara branch. / In this very ladle eight [ingredients] are mixed: / curds, honey, ghee, rainwater fallen while the sun shines, young sprouting grass, shoots of sprouted rice, wine, and dūrvā grass. / Where the southern furrow of the wooden sword on the altar lies, / there he places this throne facing eastward. / Two of its legs are inside the altar, and two outside the altar. / This [earth] is fortune. / That which is inside the altar is its measured form, / while that which is outside the altar is the unlimited abundance. / That two of its legs are inside the altar and two outside the altar / is for the attainment of both desires, that which is inside the altar and that which is outside the altar.