Agniveshyagrihyasutra 3.9.3
Āgniveśyagṛhyasūtra 3.9.3
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3.9.3.1
atha yājñikāt kāṣṭhādagniṃ mathitvā agnimupasamādhāya paristīryāgnimukhāt kṛtvā pakvājjuhoti hiraṇyagarbhaḥ samavartatāgre iti dvābhyām \
Then, having churned the fire from sacrificial wood, having established the fire, having strewn [darbha grass] around, and having performed the rites up to the beginning of the oblations, he offers from cooked food with the two verses: 'The Golden Embryo arose in the beginning'.
3.9.3.2
athājyāhutīrupajuhoti sahasraśīrṣā puruṣaḥ ityetenānuvākena svāhākāraiḥ \
Then he offers additional clarified butter libations with this section: 'The Puruṣa has a thousand heads', with utterances of svāhā.
3.9.3.3
sviṣṭakṛtprabhṛti siddhamā dhenuvarapradānāt \
From the Sviṣṭakṛt oblation onward, the rite is established up to the gift of the chosen cow.
3.9.3.4
apareṇāgniṃ sauvarṇena pātreṇa navena vā mṛṇmayena kṛṣṇājinena vā dṛtibhūtena ghṛtenā pābhiḥ pūrayitvā jīvapituścet pitābhimantrayate viṣṇuryoniṃ kalpayatu iti \
To the west of the fire, having filled a golden vessel, or a new earthen one, or a black antelope skin made into a leather bag, with ghee [and] with water, if his father is alive, the father consecrates it with [the verse]: “May Viṣṇu prepare the womb”.
3.9.3.5
athainaṃ praveśayati yāṃ pūṣan śivatamāmerayasva iti \
Then he causes him to enter [it] with [the verse]: “Whichever most auspicious [womb], O Pūṣan, urge on”.
3.9.3.6
sa garbho bhūtvā kṛṣṇājine dṛtibhūte rātriṃ vasati \
Having become an embryo, he stays the night in the black antelope skin made into a leather bag.
3.9.3.7
vyuṣṭāyāṃ jaghanārdhādātmānaṃ pratikṛṣya jāyeta \
At dawn, drawing himself out from the hind part, he should be born.
3.9.3.8
jātasya jātakarmaprabhṛti saṃskārān kārayitvā daśarātravrataṃ caret \
Having performed the bodily sacraments beginning with the birth rite for the born one, he should observe the ten-night observance.
3.9.3.9
tathaiva jāyayāgnīnādhāya vrātyena paśuneṣṭvā giriṃ gatvāgnaye kāmāyeṣṭiṃ nirvapedāyuṣmatīṃ śatakṛṣṇalām \
Having in the same way set up the fires with his wife, having sacrificed with a vrātya animal, having gone to a mountain, he should offer an iṣṭi to Agni Kāma, [namely] the Āyuṣmatī [iṣṭi] with a hundred kṛṣṇalas [of gold].
3.9.3.10
diśāmaveṣṭyā yajeta \
He should sacrifice with the Diśām Aveṣṭi.
3.9.3.11
ata ūrdhvaṃ īpsitairyajñakratubhiryajeteti vijñāyate \
From then on, he should sacrifice with desired sacrificial rites; so it is taught.
3.9.3.v-12
hiraṇyagarbhaḥ sambhūto brāhmaṇastīrṇanirṇayaḥ \
A Brahmin who has arisen from the golden womb (hiraṇyagarbha), who has crossed beyond decision,
3.9.3.v-13
pratyutthānaṃ na kasyāpi kuryād devasamastu saḥ \\
should not rise up before anyone; for he is equal to a god.
3.9.3.14
iti vijñāyate \
So it is taught.
3.9.3.15
tasmāt proṣite yajamāne caturviṃśativarṣāṇi paripālyāgnihotraṃ saṃskuryāditi sa yadyaśrutaḥ syāt \
Therefore, when the sacrificer is away from home, having guarded the agnihotra for twenty-four years, one should perform its rites, if he has not been heard of.
3.9.3.16
athāgrayaṇeṣṭipaśucāturmāsyādhvarāṇāmasamāpte vratāntarāḷe pramīyeta yadyasya putro vāntevāsī vā śeṣāṃścaikatantraṃ samāpnuyāt \
Now, if he should die during an intermediate vow before the completion of the Āgrayaṇa sacrifice, animal sacrifice, or Cāturmāsya rites, his son or pupil should complete the remaining [rites] as a single ritual procedure.
3.9.3.17
yaddaivatyaṃ paśumālabheta taddaivatyaṃ puroḍāśamāmikṣāṃ vā yajeta \
To whichever deity he would offer the animal, with a sacrificial cake or clotted milk to that deity he should sacrifice.
3.9.3.18
atha vai bhavati tamaso vā eṣa tamaḥ praviśati saha tenāhitāgnimanyairagnibhiḥ saṃskuryād iti \
Now indeed it is said: “Into darkness of darkness indeed he enters; along with him, one should cremate the ahitāgni with other fires”.
3.9.3.19
athāpyudāharanti śarīradāyādā ha vāpnayo bhavanti iti \
They also quote: “The fires indeed become heirs of the body”.
3.9.3.20
maraṇe kṣeyo 'sti \
In death there is a better [course].
3.9.3.21
ya evaṃ vidvānudagayane pramīyate sauryeṇa pathā svargaṃ lokametyatha yo dakṣiṇe pramīyate cāndramasena pathā pitṛlokameti iti vijñāyate \
“He who, knowing thus, dies in the northern course of the sun, goes to the heavenly world by the solar path; then he who dies in the southern [course], goes to the world of the ancestors by the lunar path”; so it is taught.
3.9.3.22
tā sūryācandramasā viśvabhṛttamā mahad ityāhutībhirevainaṃ rātrāvaparapakṣe dakṣiṇāyanena yadudagayane āpūryamāṇapakṣe divā kratvante śreyo maraṇamityupadiśanti \
With the offerings, “Those two, Sun and Moon, the greatest maintainers of all... the great...”, only at night, in the dark fortnight, during the southern course of the sun [one cremated him], whereas in the northern course of the sun, in the waxing fortnight, by day, at the end of a sacrifice, death is superior—so they instruct.
3.9.3.23
anyeṣu niyamabhūteṣu satreṣu dīkṣitapramītavadekāhe 'hīne ca kuryāditi \\3\\
In the case of other regular sacrificial sessions, one should act in an Ekāha and an Ahīna sacrifice as in the case of an initiated one who has died. ||3
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