History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c47.s2.7.7

v3.c47.s2.7.7

Then he washes his hand, performs ācamana twice, goes near the āhavanīya, sits down, fills the sruc with water and spills the water from the ladle to the north of the āhavanīya with the words ‘devān jinva;’ he repeats the same process again and wearing the sacred thread in the prācīnāvīta form and turning to the south he pours water to the south of the āhavanīya for the pitṛs with the words ‘pitṝn jinva’. He then repeats the same process as for gods and sprinkles water upwards in the north-east a third time with the words ‘sapta-ṛṣīn jinva’. He fills the sruc a fourth time, removes the darbhas from the place (kūrcasthāna) where they were placed to the west of the āhavanīya, pours down water on that place thrice, so as to end the stream in the east or north. He then heats the sruc and sruva on the āhavanīya fire together and keeps them on the antarvedi or hands them over to an attendant. He then offers three samidhs to each of the three fires in the order in which he performed paryukṣaṇa (i. e. in the order āhavanīya, gārhapatya, dakṣiṇāgni, or gārhapatya, dakṣiṇāgni, āhavanīya). After this the house-holder engages in waiting upon agni with *vātsapra* prayers or in a brief worship by repeating only 'bhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥ &c.' (Vāj. III. 37); then he pays silent homage to the āhavanīya and sits near it for a moment; then he sleeps or sits near the gārhapatya;