Agniveshyagrihyasutra 3.7.1.2

3.7.1.2

athāntareṇa grāmaṃ ca śmaśānaṃ ca tadvṛdhāgnimupasamādhāya kṛśamayaṃ barhistīrtvā vāraṇān paridhīn paridhāya parṇamayamidhmamabhyajya svāhākāreṇābhyādhāyāthaitadrohitaṃ carmānaḍuhaṃ jaghanenāgniṃ prācīnagrīvamuttaralomopastṛṇāti \

Then, between the village and the cremation ground, having set up the Tadvṛdh fire, having strewn sacred grass made of kuśa, having placed enclosing sticks of vāraṇa wood, having anointed the firewood bundle of parṇa wood, having placed it on [the fire] with the utterance of svāhā, he then spreads out this red ox-hide behind the fire with the neck to the east and the hairy side up.