Agniveshyagrihyasutra 3.8.1

They should shake for one day, they should shake for three days, they should shake for five, seven, nine, [or] eleven fortnights; having completed an uneven number of nights, fortnights, months, seasons, or a year, they should shake.

He prepares curds mixed with whey; a jar with a hundred holes; three sacrificial pegs of palāśa wood; a red ox-hide; a rope wound counter-clockwise for the sake of beating and a cord for tying around; six hundred unbaked bricks and an unlimited number of space-filling bricks; two kinds of roasted grains: mixed with sesame and unmixed with sesame; milk of a cow that suckles an adopted calf, half a bowl; kusa grass with its roots; a reed; a garment that has been worn and enjoyed; a perforated stone; four clods of earth; five caru pots; five cakes—one with clarified butter, one with milk, one with curds, [and] one with honey; four clumps: a clump of arjuna, a clump of dūrvā, a clump of kāśa, and a clump of kuśa; four enclosing sticks from different trees: of parṇa, vāraṇa, vetasa, and śamī; two branches of each and a branch of vāraṇa; a perforated stone; a separator; barley meal and all-herbs; sand; a cord; and three palāśa branches.

Now, between the village and the cremation ground, a room, or an enclosed hut, is constructed.

Having added fuel to the fire there, having driven three sacrificial pegs of palāśa wood into the ground to the west of the fire, having placed the bone-urn between them, having lifted the jar with a hundred holes above it, he fills it with curds mixed with whey with the two verses: "I offer this oblation into Vaiśvānara..." [and] "This ocean, this spring with a hundred streams..."

He recites the consecratory verse: "The drop has fallen..."

Then, having struck it in front with a red ox-hide, they walk around three times counter-clockwise,

[reciting:] "O skin! O skin!"

They walk around thrice three times by night, thrice by day.

In this way the kinsmen [walk around]; in this way the women.

Following that, female dancers should dance in succession.

And whatever is struck, they pacify in a watering place or a pool.

When their pacification is complete, they should not set forth on a day on which they might see the moon neither in the east nor in the west.

Having arisen in the dead of night, having understood the preparation of the cremation ground, they should set forth.

Then these four Brahmins, taking a spade, having gone to the north, collect clods of earth or bricks.

Then he sprinkles this pyre site well with water-jars, [saying:] "Depart, go away, crawl away from here!"

He should approach it according to a living person; he should not place [it] upon a living person, for he would place [it] upon the breaths of a living person.

Having pressed down with a parṇa branch, they walk around with a rope wound counter-clockwise, [saying:] "Come forth to this measure..."

Its measure: if it is neck-deep in front, it is navel-deep behind; if it is knee-deep in front, it is ankle-deep behind; if it is ankle-deep in front, it is level with the ground behind; it is known [from tradition] that it is of the measure of a man.

According to the two stated procedures, he scratches a line along the measuring-cord.

Removing the measuring-cord, they cause furrows to be dug.

They elevate it to the south; they make [the furrows] more numerous to the rear.