History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c49.s1.2.5

v3.c49.s1.2.5

He surrounds the hole (*nābhi*) with three sticks (*paridhis*), one span long, of devadāru tree on the west, south and north (with Vāj. S. V. 13) and puts down thereon guggulu (bdellium) and perfumed substances and the hair on the head or between the horns of a ram and places the fires on these materials (*sambhāras*). The pratiprasthātṛ places dakṣiṇa fire on a square mound of one *aratni* in length after drawing lines and sprinkling water. The figure of the ram is put in the payasyā meant for Maruts and that of the ewe in the payasyā meant for Varuṇa. The liquid called *vājina* (of both payasyās) is collected in separate pots and in the payasyā are put the fruit of *karīra* and leaves of *śamī*. All the offerings except the payasyā for Maruts and the pots of karambha are placed by the adhvaryu on the uttaravedi; while the pratiprasthātṛ places the payasyā for Maruts together with the pot for ājya and also the karambha pot (if the yava grains for them had not been taken out by the adhvaryu) on the southern vedi and the vājina is placed near the utkara by both. When the adhvaryu issues a direction to the āgnīdhra 'please sweep clean the paridhis of the two fires' (the two āhavanīyas on the two vedis) with the ropes binding the idhma, the pratiprasthātṛ goes to the sacrificer's wife sitting near the gārhapatya and asks her to declare what lover or lovers (jāra)²⁴⁵⁹ she has.