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Hiranyakeshigrihyasutra 2.1.1.3

Hiraṇyakeśigṛhyasūtra 2.1.1.3

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2.1.1.3

imaṃ me varuṇa \ tattvā yāmi \ tvaṃ no agne \ sa tvaṃ no agne \ tvamagne ayāsi \ prajāpate \ yadasya karmaṇotyarīricam \ iti ca \ atraike jayābhyātānānrāṣṭrabhṛta ityupajuhvati yathā purastāt \ brāhmaṇānannena pariviṣya puṇyāhaṃ svastyayanamṛddhimiti vācayitvā snātāṃ prayatavastrāmalaṃkṛtāṃ brāhmaṇasaṃbhāṣāmapareṇāgniṃ maṇḍalāgāre prācīmupaveśya treṇyā śalalyā śalālugrapsamupasaṃgṛhya purastātpratyaṅtiṣṭhanvyāhṛtībhiḥ \ rākāmaham \ yāste rāke \ iti dvābhyāmūrdhvaṃ sīmantamunnīyābhimantrayate \ soma eva no rājetyāhurbrāhmaṇīḥ prajāḥ \ vivṛttacakrā āsīnāstīre tubhyaṃ gaṅge \ viśvā uta tvayā vayaṃ dhārā udanyā iva \ atigāhemahi dviṣaḥ \ iti \3\ \\1\\

'This, O Varuna' (&c.; see I, chap. 27, Sûtra 2, down to): 'Hail! Good luck!'
He then makes the wife who has taken a bath, who wears a clean dress and ornaments, and has spoken with a Brâhmana, sit down to the west of the fire, facing the east, in a round apartment. Standing to the east (of the wife), facing the west he parts her hair upwards (i.e. beginning from the front) with a porcupine's quill that has three white spots, holding (also) a bunch of unripe fruits, with the Vyâhritis (and) with the two (verses), 'I invoke Râkâ,' (and), 'Thy graces, O Râkâ' (Taitt. Samh. III, 3, 11, 5). Then he recites over (his wife the formulas), 'Soma alone is our king, thus say the Brâhmana tribes, sitting near thy banks, O Gaṅgâ, whose wheel does not roll back (?)!' (and), 'May we find our way with thee through all hostile powers, as through streams of water' (above I, 20, 5).

Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30)

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