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Kaushitakagrihyasutra 5.5: atha pañcamaḥ khaṇḍaḥ

Kauṣītakagṛhyasūtra 5.5

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atha pañcamaḥ khaṇḍaḥ

5.5.1

ā vā saṃcayanādvratāni \1\

Or the observances [last] until the gathering of the bones.

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5.5.2

aparapakṣe sañcinoti \2\

He gathers [the bones] in the dark fortnight,

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5.5.3

aśānte 'gnāveke \3\

when the fire is not yet extinguished, according to some [teachers].

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5.5.4

gatvā dahanaṃ dakṣiṇato 'ṅgārānnirūhyāhutīstisro juhoti avasṛja punaragne ityetābhistisṛbhiḥ \4\

Having gone to the cremation ground, having cleared away the embers to the south, he offers three oblations with these three [verses]: 'Release him again, O Agni...'

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5.5.5

udumbaraśākhābhiḥ kṣīrodakairabhyavokṣati yaṃ te agniṃ manthāma vṛṣabhāyeca paktave imaṃ taṃ śamayāmasi kṣīreṇa codakena ca yaṃ tvamagne samadahastamu nirvāpayā punaḥ kiyāṃmbvatra rohatu pākadūrvā vyalkaśā śītike śītikāvati hvādike dvādikāvati maṇḍūkyā su saṅgamemaṃ svagniṃ śamaya \5\

With udumbara branches he sprinkles [the ground] with milk and water: 'That fire of yours which we churn, to cook for the bull, / that one we quench with milk and with water. / What you, O Agni, have burnt up, that extinguish again; / may the kiyāmbu plant grow here, the pakadūrvā, the vyalkaśā. / O cool one, possessing coolness, O refreshing one, possessing refreshment, / united with the female frog, quench this sacred fire of his.'

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5.5.6

śaṃ te sravantīstanvāpaḥ śamu te santu kūpyāḥ \ śaṃ te dhanvanyā āpaḥ śamu te santu nṛpyāḥ śaṃ te samudriyā āpaḥ śamu te santu varṣyāḥ śaṃ te nīhāro varṣatu śamu kṛṣvāvaśīyatām ityadbhirabhyupokṣati \\6\\

'May the flowing waters be auspicious to your body, and may those from wells be auspicious to you; / may the waters of the desert be auspicious to you, and may those from streams be auspicious to you; / may the waters of the sea be auspicious to you, and may those of rain be auspicious to you; / may frost shower auspiciousness upon you, and may hail fall down auspiciously'—[with these words] he sprinkles [it] over with water.

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