Aitareyabrahmana 8.6

8.6

He spreads out the tiger skin with the hair upwards and the neck facing east. / The tiger is dominion among wild animals, and the rājanya is dominion; / by dominion he thus renders dominion successful. / Sitting down behind it facing east and bending the right knee, he consecrates it with a formula, / touching it with both hands: 'May Agni mount you, joined with the gāyatrī metre; / 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. / After them I mount for kingship, for universal rule, for paramount rule, for self-rule, for supreme sovereignty, / for highest authority, for royal domain, for great kingship, for overlordship, for self-mastery, for pre-eminence.' / He should mount this throne first with the right knee, then with the left. / 'That and that,' thus [it is said]. / Joined with the metres increasing by four syllables, the gods mounted to that / fortune in which they are now firmly 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 [verses] are recited after this: / 'Agni became joined with the gāyatrī', and so forth. / Acquisition and preservation succeed for him; he attains ever higher fortune; / he attains lordship and overlordship over creatures, who, being a kṣatriya, mounts this throne following these deities. / Then, about to consecrate him, he makes him pronounce the appeasement of the waters: / 'Look upon me, O waters, with a kindly eye; touch my skin with a kindly body. / I summon all the fires that dwell in the waters; bestow on me lustre, strength, and vital power.' / [This is said] so that unappeased waters may not destroy the virility of this [king] who is being consecrated.