Mekhala 16.1.3

16.1.3

tejo yaśasvī sthaviraṃ samṛddham | anāhanasyaṃ vasanaṃ cariṣṇu parīdaṃ vājyajinaṃ dadheyami (ti vācayannaiṇeyaṃ carma brāhmaṇāya prayacchati | vaiyāghraṃ rājanyāya | rauravaṃ vaiśyāya ) || taccakṣuri [ tyādityamupasthāpayati ] || taccakṣurdevahitaṃ purastācchukramuccarat | paśyema śaradaḥ śataṃ
jīvema śaradaḥ śatam || “ko nāmāsītyukte | abhivādane prokte” | asau ahaṃ bhori “ti pratyāha” || guroḥ pādāvupasaṃgṛhya brahmacāryabhivādayate | yathā | [ abhivādaye devaśarmāhaṃ bhoḥ | “ityevamabhivādayate”
āyuṣmānbhava saumya devaśarma 3 n “iti pratyabhivādanam” || ] vyatastapāṇinā kāryamupasaṃgrahaṇaṃ guroḥ
savyena savyaḥ spraṣṭavyo dakṣiṇena tu dakṣiṇaḥ || akāraścāsya nāmnonte vācyaḥ pūrvākṣaraḥ plutaḥ | yo na
vettyabhivādasya vipraḥ pratyabhivādanam || nābhivādyaḥ
sa viduṣā yathā śūdrastathaiva saḥ || devasya tvā savituḥ
prasave śvinorbāhubhyāṃ pūṣṇo hastābhyāṃ hastaṃ gṛhṇāmi
amukasvāmin ! upanaye'sau savitā te hastamagṛhīt amukachanda ! agnirācāryyastavāmukasvāmin | kastvavāṃ ka
mupanaye'sau amukaśarman ! kāya tvā paridadhāmi amukadeva ! kasya brahmacāryyasi | prāṇasya brahmacāryyasmī
"ti pratyāha" | evaṃ | prajāpataye tvā paridadhāmi
devāya tvā savitre paridadāmi | bṛhaspataye tvā paridadhāmi amukadatta ! || deva ! savitareṣa te brahmacārī taṃ
gopāya sudīrghāya sa mā mṛta