Atharvavedaparishishta 45

English (machine translation) 45

Language: English

45.1 — 27 parts
45.2 — 21 parts

45.1.2

It begins in the evening and concludes in the morning.

45.1.3

He should perform nothing else in between.

45.1.5

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

45.1.6

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

45.1.7

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

45.1.8

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.

45.1.9

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

45.1.10

When offered: 'Truth with cosmic order.'

45.1.11

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

45.1.12

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

45.1.13

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

45.1.14

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!'

45.1.15

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

45.1.16

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!'

45.1.17

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

45.1.18

'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.

45.1.19

He offers onto the ablaze piece of firewood.

45.1.20

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

45.1.21

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

45.1.22

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

45.1.24

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],'

45.1.25

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

45.1.26

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

45.1.27

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

45.2.1

Some say the Agnihotra is offered in all [three fires].

45.2.2

From the cooking pot with the dipping-spoon:

'Here may the lord of nourishment bestow nourishment; here may Prajāpati generate offspring. To Agni, master of the house, wealthy, lord of cattle, lord of nourishment, svāhā!'—in the Gārhapatya [fire].

45.2.4

Having offered into the Dakṣiṇāgni [fire] with: 'To Agni the food-eater, lord of food, svāhā!'

45.2.5

The pot of boiled rice-offering belonging to Prajāpati [is offered] with the mind alone in both cases.

45.2.6

Having placed the offering ladle and dipping spoon upon the sacrificial grass, sitting down to the north of the fire, he eats.

45.2.7

Sipping water with 'I gratify the vital breaths,' a second time with 'I gratify the embryos,' [and] finally all of it with 'I gratify all the gods.'

45.2.8

With the ladle unwashed, he pours out water, saying: 'I gratify the serpents and other beings.'

45.2.9

Having washed it with sacrificial grass, [he pours water] a second time, saying: 'I gratify the serpents and holy folk.'

45.2.10

Saying 'I gratify the gandharvas and apsarases,' a third [pouring of] water [is made] behind the āhavanīya fire.

45.2.11

Saying 'I gratify the seven seers,' he heats the offering ladle and dipping spoon at the fire.

45.2.12

Saying 'I lead the southern ones,' he wipes down the handle of the ladle at night.

45.2.13

In the morning, he wipes it upward.

45.2.14

Thus has been stated the laying on of firewood.

45.2.15

The adoration of the fire [is performed with]: 'Night after night, bringing before departure...'

45.2.16

At the proper time, each evening, [he adores the fire with] the two verses: 'The master of the house' and 'This fire of ours.'

45.2.17

Behind the gārhapatya fire, the cooking vessel for the Agnihotra milk-food is prescribed.

45.2.18

Touching it with 'O sacrifice, I know your back,' he consecrates it with the mantra.

45.2.19

When the cooking pot leaks, pouring [the contents] into another, stronger one for the mashing rituals, he consecrates it with [the verse]: 'Sutā deveṣu...'

45.2.20

Thus in all cooking pots, or in the Soma vessel and the mahāvīra pot.

45.2.21

Now, whose Agnihotra cow or other [requisite] should perish, there one should offer according to the appropriate deity, [or] if one does not occur to mind, with the sacred utterances.

45.2.21.p1

(Pariśiṣṭa 46. The Supreme Chapter)

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