Manavashrautasutra 6.1.4

With "The golden disc seen...", he fastens on a golden ornament with twenty-one knobs.

He wears it with the knobs facing outward.

He sets down a chair.

Its legs are a span in height.

The rest is the same.

He places a sling of muñja grass, having six cords or twelve cords, upon the chair.

With "Night and dawn...", having lifted the fire in the pot, he places it into the sling.

With "All forms..." he fastens the noose of the sling; with "Night and dawn...", the black antelope skin.

He mutters: "You are the fair-winged bird Garutmat... threefold is your head...".

Having raised the fire in the pot with "You are the fair-winged bird Garutmat, go to heaven, fly to the light", holding the pot above the navel, he strides four paces toward the east with [the formulas] beginning with "You are the stride of Viṣṇu...".

He mutters the verse containing the word krand: "Agni cried aloud...".

He turns around clockwise with the four verses containing the word punar, beginning with "O Agni, turning back...".

Having turned around, he mutters: "I have brought you back...".

With "The highest noose, O Varuṇa...", he unfastens the noose of the sling.

He addresses the fire in the pot with "O lofty Agni...".

With the Haṃsavatī verse, "The goose dwelling in light...", he sets it down upon the chair.

With the three verses containing the word sad, beginning with "Sit down in the lap of this mother...", he attends upon the fire in the pot.

He attends upon [it] with the twelve [verses] of the Vātsapra hymn, beginning with "From heaven...".

The ritual acts of the initiation from the clenching of the fists onwards are established.

Intending to take the vow-drink, having kindled the fire in the pot with "With which light the gods...", he puts on the first kindling stick smeared with clarified butter: with a gāyatrī verse, "Honor the fire with kindling...", for a brāhmaṇa; with a triṣṭubh verse, "Forth, forth this Agni...", for a rājanya; with two gāyatrī verses for a vaiśya.

With "O Lord of food, give us food...", [he puts on one] smeared with clarified butter.

With "At the impulse of the god Savitṛ, with the arms of the Aśvins, with the hands of Pūṣan, I set down the day for you, O Agni Vaiśvānara", he puts on a kindling stick; in the morning with "...I set down the night...".

Henceforth, after the sun has risen, are the strides during the day.

From the fastening onwards is established up to the reverential attendance with the [verses] containing the word 'sanna'.

At night, he attends [the fire] with the Vātsapra hymn.

The initiated should beg for sustenance.

About to set forth, he takes the pan-fire with: 'The All-gods [have raised] thee up'.

With the haṃsavatī verse, 'The swan dwelling in purity,' and with the verses containing the word 'sit,' he places [the fire] into the cart. Having poured [the ashes/embers] into the two pans, he places them in the other [cart].

He sets out with the formula, 'O Agni, bright one, go forward.'

If [the cart] should creak, he accompanies it with the formula containing the word 'call.'

If the ukhā pot is filled, he should deposit the ashes for settling the bricks, or loose soil in the case of one who desires cattle.

The wandering sacrificer sets out together with his sacrificial enclosure.

With three verses, 'O divine waters, receive,' he pours the ashes into water.

With two verses, 'Having settled with ashes,' he puts two handfuls of ashes back.

Having returned with two verses containing the word 'return' and set it in its place, he stands worshiping it with two verses containing the word 'wake.'

One should not make the bricks without having offered the Prājāpatya offering.

The duration of the initiation is traditionally taught beginning with the rule, 'Having borne it for three nights.'

Once initiated, he does not worship the fire in the ukhā with the verses containing the word 'return.'

Earthen bricks are four-cornered, marked with straight lines, scored with three marks; some turn clockwise, others turn counter-clockwise, excluding broken and black spots. The three Nairṛta bricks are black, baked with chaff; one should bake them with fire produced by churned wood or with the southern fire.

After the initiation days, having combined the Viṣṇu strides and the Vātsapra hymn,