Varahashrautasutra 2.1.2

Reciting: 'Having golden hair, bearing good yokes, having golden eyes, hooves of iron—horses, non-horses, gifts—King Yama presides over,' he brings [them].

This is the bringing forth of the primary [heads].

On the full-moon day, he seizes five animals: a horse, a bull, a ram, a he-goat, [and] a hornless [goat] dedicated to Prajāpati—[all] uncastrated males.

He dedicates them, saying: 'Welcome for the fires, according to desire.'

The animal sacrificial cake is for Vaiśvānara, prepared on twelve potsherds.

He recites twenty-four kindling verses continuously.

There are eleven permanent ones; three beginning with 'I have sent forth...'; ten beginning with 'Equal years, O Agni...'

For one who is diseased, [he recites verses ending with] 'May it be yonder.'

For one who is not diseased, [he recites:] 'For wealth, O Agni, for great bounty may we kindle you; praise indeed the great earth for priestly service, O vigorous Agni!'

With 'hiranyagarbha...' the butter-flow [is made].

With 'urdhva asya samidha...' are the apri verses.

Having carried fire around [them] along with the human head, having released those around whom fire was carried except for the victim to Prajapati, having cut off their heads, having thrown the bodies into that pool from which he intends to make the bricks, and having smeared the heads with much clay, they conclude the rite with the [victim] sacred to Prajapati.

If he does not obtain these, he should seize a white, hornless he-goat for Vayu Niyutvat.

The sacrificial cake for the animal is dedicated to Prajapati on twelve potsherds.

The rest is the same.

The initiation offering consists of a cake on eleven potsherds to Agni-and-Vishnu, a boiled oblation in ghee to the Adityas, and a cake on twelve potsherds to Agni Vaishvanara.

It is the same up to the initiation oblations, except for the full oblation.

Having offered those belonging to the Soma sacrifice, he offers six fire-related oblations with 'akutam agnim...'.

At the end is the full oblation.

Before speech is restrained, he removes the fire pan from the ahavaniya fire with: 'Do not break well...'.

The optional rites are handed down in tradition [beginning with]: 'He should place inside the newborn...'.

Approaching, he places a kindling stick in the fire: with 'drvanna...' a krumuka stick smeared with ghee;

With 'prajate parasya adhi samvata...' one of udumbara wood;

With 'paramasyaḥ paravata...' one of vikankata wood;

With the five verses 'yad agne yani kani ca...' five sticks of udumbara wood not felled by an axe;

With 'ye janesu malimlava...' one of vikankata wood;

With 'damstrabhyam...' one of ashvattha wood;

With 'yo asmabhyam aratiyat...' one of tilvaka wood, if he performs sorcery.

Over the udumbara stick, he makes the sacrificer recite: 'udeṣam bahun...' and 'samsitam me...'.

With 'brahma ksatram...' [he places] a stick of unspecified wood.

While the fire pan is being carried, for one who desires rain he should place three ashvattha kindling sticks with three verses addressed to Surya containing the word 'ray' (rasmivati); with radiant verses addressed to Surya for one who does not desire rain;

If Pashupati should afflict [him], with verses addressed to Agni containing healing words (bhisagvati).

If [the fire] goes out, he worships it with: 'agne abhyavartin...', 'agne angira...', 'punar urja...', and 'saha rayya...'.

[He takes] a golden plate with a cord, having twenty-one knobs.

Thus ends the second section in the first chapter on the piling of the fire altar.