Kaushitakagrihyasutra 3.2
English (machine translation) 3.2
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3.2.1
When intending to build a house, with “Here I receive the subjects for the eating of food,” having drawn three lines around with an udumbara branch, he offers an oblation on a sacrificial ground in the middle: “Who art thou? Whose art thou? To whom do I, desiring a village, sacrifice for thee? Svāhā! In this place is the higher portion of the gods. The fathers who have departed arose from here. Sacrificing rich in nourishment, desiring a village, I indeed bypass none of the gods! Svāhā!”
3.2.2
And not having had the post-holes dug, having poured out water mixed with flour, with “I erect this branch of immortality, a stream of sweetness, bringing forth treasures; / may the child cry towards this, may the boy [run towards it], may the purifying-calf milk-cow [approach it],” he places an udumbara branch anointed with clarified butter into the southern door-hole.
3.2.3
With “I raise this branch of the world, a stream of sweetness, bringing forth treasures; / may the child cry towards this, may the boy [run towards it], may the purifying-calf milk-cow [approach it],” on the north.
3.2.4
In this way at the two [posts] on the south, west, and north.
3.2.5
With “I establish in this [ground] this branch of the tree, sprinkling clarified butter, in immortality; / may the child cry towards this, may the boy [run towards it], may the milk-cows with constant calves stream [towards it],” he raises the king-post.
3.2.6
Having touched the king-post with the verse: 'May the young boy, the calf, the lord of the world come to this; / may you go with jars of curd from the pitcher; / stand firm right here, O post, possessing horses, possessing cows, possessing fortune, stand in peace, sprinkling clarified butter; / standing right here, erected, as if on fertile ground, thrive in the midst of her that abounds in food, standing; / may harmful ones not reach you; summoned hither are cows, summoned are goats and sheep, and summoned is the sweet drink of food in our house; stand firm on the Rathantara [chant], rest on the Vāmadevya [chant], on the Bṛhat [chant]'; he touches the posts of the measured [house]: with 'Truth and faith' the eastern ones,
3.2.7
with 'Sacrifice and sacrificial fee' the southern ones,
3.2.8
with 'Strength and vigor' the western ones,
3.2.9
with 'Spiritual power and temporal power' the northern ones,
3.2.10
with 'Prosperity' the roof-pinnacle,
3.2.11
with 'Dharma' the king-post,
3.2.12
with 'Day and night' the two door-leaves,
3.2.13
[and] with 'The year' the bolt.
3.2.14
With 'The bull, the ocean…' he buries an anointed stone beneath the roof-pinnacle.
3.2.15
When the house-building rite is completed and [the house] is decorated all around:
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- Kauṣītakagṛhyasūtra — Sanskrit