Agniveshyagrihyasutra 2.3.5.2

2.3.5.2

paramasvāmiśarmaṇaḥ kumārasya kautukabandhaṃ kariṣya iti saṅkalpya taṇḍulamudakumbhaṃ varāhaviṣāṇaṃ ca kaṇṭakinaṃ ca śaṅkhamādarśamañjanaṃ kautukatantuṃ cādāya ekatra nidhāya niśāyāṃ gṛhaṃ sabhācchādanavidhā nādyairalaṅkṛtya gomayenopalipya vrīhibhiḥ sthaṇḍilaṃ kṛtvā sthaṇḍilottare kumbhaṃ nidhāya kumbhasya dakṣiṇataḥ sambhārān nidhāya suprakṣāḷitapāṇipādān caturo brāhmaṇāna pratidiśamupaveśya darbheṣvāsīnaḥ karmopakramaṃ karoti \

Having formed the intention: "I shall perform the tying of the protective cord for the boy named Paramasvāmiśarman," having taken husked rice, a water jar, a boar's tusk, a porcupine quill, a conch, a mirror, collyrium, and the protective thread, having set them down together in one place, having decorated the house at night with canopies and the like, having smeared [the ground] with cow dung, having made a sacrificial ground with unhusked rice, having placed the jar to the north of the sacrificial ground, having placed the ritual materials to the south of the jar, and having seated four Brahmins whose hands and feet have been thoroughly washed in each direction, he, seated upon darbha grass, begins the ritual.