Atharvavedaparishishta 45.1

Om. The Agnihotra.

It begins in the evening and concludes in the morning.

He should perform nothing else in between.

Some say it begins in the morning.

Having washed the sacrificial vessels, he should cook the Agnihotra milk.

If it should overflow while being cooked, he should pour water upon it.

He follows it with the recitation of these [verses] beginning with: 'The fourth [part] of the earth.'

Having poured it back, having moved it off [the fire] to the north, having sprinkled [the area] with water, he moistens the sacrificial grass and the water vessel.

When about to offer: 'I sprinkle you, cosmic order, with truth.'

When offered: 'Truth with cosmic order.'

He pours a stream of water from the Gārhapatya to the Āhavanīya [fire], saying: 'You are nectar; unite nectar with nectar!'

Having sprinkled around the Āhavanīya, having reached the Gārhapatya and stirred the burning coals, he touches them with the cooking-pot.

He mutters: 'Pushed away'; he pours back with: 'Both pushed together.'

He heats the dipping-spoon and the offering-ladle over the fire, with: 'Scorched are the demons, scorched the enemies! Burned up are the demons, burned up the enemies!'

Having sprinkled them with water, [what is] taken from the cooking pot into the offering-ladle with the dipping-spoon is identical.

Taking the offering-ladle and raising it level with his mouth, he steps toward the Āhavanīya, saying: 'Here I lead the sacrificer up to the heavenly world!'

Placing the offering-ladle on the sacrificial grass, he adds a piece of firewood.

'Having the light of Agni, accompanied by Vāyu, full of breath, heavenly, for the heavenly world I place you, radiant, svāhā!'—in the evening. 'Having the light of Sūrya'—in the morning.

He offers onto the ablaze piece of firewood.

'In company with the god Savitṛ, in company with the night possessing Indra, may Agni, being pleased, accept [it], svāhā!'—in the evening.

'In company with the god Savitṛ, in company with Dawn possessing Indra, may Sūrya, being pleased, accept [it], svāhā!'—in the morning.

The oblation in the offering made after sunrise belongs to Agni alone:

'May he rise luminous to his domain.'

Having silently offered the subsequent oblations to Prajāpati in both [evening and morning rites] with 'Prajāpati, none other than you [embraced all these created forms],'

he lifts the dipping-spoon northward three times, saying: 'I please the Rudras.'

Having placed the dipping-spoon on the sacrificial grass and wiped it off,

having placed the sacrificial thread over his right shoulder, [he offers] to the south, saying: 'To the ancestors I offer svadhā.'