Agniveshyagrihyasutra 1.6.3

In this way, having made her step on [the stone] a second time and gone around, she offers;

likewise a third time.

Having made [her] sit in her proper place, having taken the post-sacrifice firewood stick, having offered with the ladle the two [oblations] to Varuṇa, the two to Agni and Varuṇa, [the offering] to Vanaspati as a ram, the one to Prajāpati, and the one to Sviṣṭakṛt, he offers the expiation before the Sviṣṭakṛt [offering] with the five [verses beginning with] ‘yan ma ātmanaḥ’.

And [he offers] this anuvāka [beginning with] ‘pāhi no agna enasaḥ’.

Here, having offered with the great mystic utterances [and] with ‘bhūr agnaye ca pṛthivyai ca mahate ca svāhā’, right here he should offer the sacred syllable Om and with all the mystic utterances together.

Then, having anointed the middle enclosing stick and having touched water on the southern half, taking half and half from the southern and northern halves of the surrounding grass, he anoints the tip and the middle in the ladle, and anoints the root in the ghee pot.

Again, he anoints the tip and the middle in the ladle, and the root in the ghee pot.

Again, [he anoints] the root and the middle in the ghee pot, and the tip in the ladle.

Then, having laid down one blade of grass and having touched water, he should throw the remainder into the fire.

He should not throw it beyond the tip; ‘if he should throw it beyond the tip,’ so says the Brāhmaṇa.

Having raised [it] three times, he should throw the blade of grass after it as well.

Having raised his finger three times, having touched the vital breaths, the eye and so forth, having taken the enclosing sticks, he should throw the middle one first;

simultaneously the southern and the northern [ones].

He throws the two upright firewood sticks [into the fire].

He pushes the northern half into the coals.

He should pour an offering over [them] with the trickle [of ghee].

Then he circum-pours water.

As before, he adapts the ends of the mantras to ‘anvamaṃsthāḥ’ and ‘prāsāvīḥ’.

Taking the vessel of consecrated water, bringing it around in front of the fire, having placed it south of the fire, west of the fire, and in the place of the millstone, having given sacrificial fee to the Brahman priest according to his ability, he silently sprinkles himself from the east onward toward each direction.

Having poured out a little [water], he should wipe himself with his hand.

With the three [verses beginning with] ‘āpo hi ṣṭhā mayobhuvaḥ’, with the four [beginning with] ‘hiraṇyavarṇāḥ śucayaḥ pāvakāḥ’, with this anuvāka [beginning with] ‘pavamānaḥ suvarjanaḥ’, with the three [beginning with] ‘kayā naś citra ā bhuvat’, and with the two [beginning with] ‘prājāpatyaṃ pavitram’.

At this time, the exit of the Brahman priest is in the manner in which he entered.

From the expiation up to the exit of the Brahman priest, this is common to all ladle offerings.

Here he gives a boon to the teacher.

Then he reveres the deity with these [formulas beginning with] ‘agne vratapate vrataṃ cariṣyāmi’.

Then he mutters in her right ear: ‘amūham asmi’.

Then, stroking down over her right shoulder with his right hand, he touches the region of her heart with the two [verses beginning with] ‘mama hṛdaye hṛdayaṃ te astu’.

Then, behind the fire, he steps forward with the Viṣṇu-steps: ‘ekam iṣe viṣṇus tvānvetu’ and so on.

He advances the right foot slightly forward;

he steps out following with the left.

Right here he strides the seventh step;

he does not step past the fire.

At the seventh step he mutters: ‘sakhāyau saptapadāv abhūva’.

Then, standing facing north behind the fire, he reveres the Seven Seers with: ‘sapta ṛṣayaḥ prathamāṃ kṛttikānām’.

Then he reveres the Pole Star with: ‘dhruvaṃ namasyāmi’.

Having sat for a moment, having placed the domestic fire in a pit having the shape of the Āhavanīya, here the assembled participants bestow a blessing.

Then he approaches the cattle-pen.

Then, holding her right hand with his right hand, he touches the southern door-post with: ‘śaṃ na edhi dvipade śaṃ catuṣpade’.

In the same way, the northern one.

Entering the house, he sits down upon an ox-hide with the hair side up, [reciting]: ‘iha gāvo niṣīdantu’.

The two dwell conversing with their kin.

Observing celibacy and adorning themselves, the two should observe the vow for three days, eating food that is not pungent or saline and is free of bean grain, sleeping on the ground, not engaging in sexual intercourse, living together.

Evening and morning he offers into the domestic fire with rice grains or barley grains.

In the evening, first having established the fire, having strewn [darbha grass] around, having washed the pot, heated it, cleansed it, poured in a handful of rice, carried fire around it, adorned the fire with scents and flowers, [offering] to Indra, Agni, Yama, Nirṛti, Varuṇa, Vāyu, Soma, and Īśāna toward each direction beginning from the east, afterwards having adorned himself, having touched water, with strainer in hand, having circum-poured water with ‘adite ’numanyasva’, having added a firewood stick and made it flame up, he should offer the rice grains with his hand: ‘agnaye svāhā, prajāpataye svāhā’ in the evening; ‘sūryāya svāhā, prajāpataye svāhā’ in the morning.

Having circum-poured water with ‘adite ’nvamaṃsthāḥ’, having offered the smaller amount of it first, he should offer the larger amount subsequently—so says the Brāhmaṇa.

Thus he offers in the domestic fire.

Then, later, he should feed his wife.

Therefore [this fire] is to be maintained continuously; if extinguished, it is to be churned out, or brought from the house of a learned Brahmin.

He offers an expiation: ‘ayāś cāgner anabhiśastīś ca satyam ittvam ayā asi

ayasā manasā dhṛto ’yasā havyam ūhiṣe ’yā no dhehi bheṣajaṃ svāhā’. When the three days have elapsed, at night, beginning with the establishment of the fire, the well-known domestic ladle-offering rite up to the Rāṣṭrabhṛt offerings should be conducted according to the model of the marriage ritual, omitting the preparation of fried grains and so forth, and omitting each cleansing and the putting on of the garment; in this way this [proceeds according to] the marriage model for all.

He offers the timely expiation with the four [verses beginning with] ‘agne prāyaścitte’.

The offerings to Varuṇa and so forth are the same.

Discharge of seed [follows].

Then they conclude the vow with these [verses beginning with] ‘agne vratapate vratam acāriṣam’.

Then, having caused [the Brahmins] to proclaim the auspicious day, [he says]: ‘May you, sirs, pronounce blessing upon us two, husband and wife’.

‘Blessing upon you two, husband and wife’ is the response.

Then he touches her lap with: ‘śivena tvābhimṛśāmi’.

He lies down with her, [saying]: ‘ṛṣabheṇa skandāmi’.

Having completed the intercourse, he should mutter with the three [verses beginning with] ‘ā te yoniṃ garbha etu’.

In this very manner, month after month at the time of the fertile period, the approaching of the wife is concluded. ||3